UFE: Teaching Teachers to Teach Engineering

教学教师教授工程（T4E）是美国西点军校夏季开设的为期一周的短期课程。T4E计划的目标是通过增加学习和实践可靠的教学方法的工程教师的数量，提高全国本科工程专业的教学水平。短期课程的主要目标是：(1)为24名相对缺乏经验的工程教育工作者提供一个在教学效果和效率方面做出实质性改进的机会；(2)为在他们自己的机构建立类似的课程，提供6名额外的高级教员或管理人员来观察课程。该课程努力满足两年制和四年制教学和研究机构教师的需求，并从通常在工程学院中代表性不足的群体中获得适当的代表性——女性、非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美洲原住民和残疾人。在一系列的研讨会中，短期课程涉及课程的组织和介绍，目标的建立，学生的学习方式，教学技术，师生关系，晋升和终身教职，以及在学术上的成功。参与者将以小组为单位，准备和讲授练习课程，并将接受T4E教师和其他参与者对其表现的评价。通过这种体验，参与者将建立自信和镇定；他们将显著提高备课能力；在短期课程结束后，他们将发展持续长期改进所必需的自我评估技能。这种高度集中的、为期一周的沉浸式体验将为参与者提供一个基础，在此基础上，他们可以根据自己的个性和教学环境建立自己的个人教学风格。研讨会结束后，参与者将与各自机构的教师进行互动，以促进卓越教学的事业。教授教师如何教授工程课程，由于其实践性、以学生为中心的方法以及强调实际的“起床并动手”教学，预计将对参与者的教学技能产生直接的、实质性的影响。*

Teaching Teachers to Teach Engineering (T4E) is a one-week short course offered during the summer at the United States Military Academy, West Point. The goal of the T4E program is to raise the standard of teaching excellence in undergraduate engineering programs nationwide by increasing the number of engineering faculty who have studied and practiced sound, proven teaching methods. The principal objectives of the short course are ( 1) to provide a diverse group of 24 relatively inexperienced engineering educators with an opportunity to make substantive improvements in both the effectiveness and efficiency of their teaching, and (2) to provide six additional senior faculty members or administrators to observe the course, for the purpose of establishing similar programs at their own institutions. The course strives to meet the needs of faculty from two-year and four-year teaching and research institutions and to achieve appropriate representation from groups that are typically underrepresented on engineering faculties-- women, African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Native Americans, and individuals with disabilities. In a series of workshops, the short course addresses topics in organization and presentation of classes, establishing objectives, student learning styles, instructional technology, student-teacher relations, promotion and tenure, and success in academia. Working in small groups, participants will prepare and present practice classes and will be critiqued on their performance by the T4E faculty and their fellow participants. Through this experience, participants will build confidence and poise; they will significantly improve their ability to prepare classes efficiently; and they will develop the self-assessment skills necessary for continued long-term improvement after the short course. This highly focused, week-long immersion experience will provide a foundation on which participants ca build their own individual teaching styles, consistent with their own personalit ies and teaching environments. Following the workshop, participants are expected to interact with faculty at their own institutions to promote the cause of teaching excellence. Teaching Teachers to Teach Engineering is expected to have an immediate, substantive impact on the teaching skills of participants because of its practical, student-centered approach and its emphasis on actual "get-up-anddo-it" teaching. *