Peer-Led Team-Learning:National Dissemination by the Workshop Project

这是一项综合性的全国性宣传工作，旨在教育SMET教师采用一种强大、有力、易于使用的教学方法，该方法已在多所学院和大学成功进行了beta测试。这种方法就是同伴领导的团队学习模式。它被称为“工作坊模式”，因为它的主要特点是学生小组与课程教师密切协调地合作。在工作坊模式中，合作的学生小组为本科生提供了一个独特的领导角色，补充了课程的讲课部分。在这个项目中，一个由7个机构的11名教师组成的团队设计了一个协调的计划，在三年的时间里向生物、化学、地质、数学和物理等5个学科的广泛机构和教师传播研讨会模式。参与的机构包括纽约市立大学、迈阿密大学、乔治王子社区学院、罗切斯特大学、圣泽维尔大学、蒙大拿大学和波特兰州立大学。这个国家传播项目的基础是各种不同强度和承诺的外联活动，这些活动部分在参与机构的校园内进行，从在区域和国家会议上进行1小时的介绍到为期3天的讲习班，并提供大量后续支助。为了支持采用研讨会方法的教师，有一个包含大量资源的网页。该项目包括一系列活动，以促进研讨会模式的学术研究，并旨在建立一个不断扩大的教师领导，以确保在项目生命周期后继续传播。

This is a comprehensive national dissemination effort to educate SMET faculty about a robust, powerful, and accessible instructional approach that has been successfully beta-tested across a wide variety of colleges and universities. This approach is the Peer-Led Team-Learning model. It is called the Workshop Model because its key feature is collaborative student groups working in close harmony with the course faculty. In the Workshop Model, collaborative student groups provide a unique leadership role for undergraduate students that complements the lecture component of courses. In this project, an 11-member team of faculty drawn from seven institutions have devised a coordinated plan to disseminate the Workshop Model over a three year period to a broad variety of institutions and faculty in five disciplines -- biology, chemistry, geology, mathematics, and physics. The participating institutions are the CUNY City College, the University of Miami (FL), Prince Georges Community College, the University of Rochester, St. Xavier University, the University of Montana, and Portland State University (OR). This national dissemination project is based on a variety of outreach activities, of varying intensity and commitment, conducted in part on the campuses of the participating institutions, ranging from 1-hour presentations at regional and national meetings to 3-day workshops, with substantial follow-up support. In support of faculty adopting the Workshop approach, there is a Web page with substantial resources. The project includes a set of activities to promote scholarship about the Workshop Model and is designed to create an expanding leadership of faculty to ensure continued dissemination beyond the life of the project.