GK-12: Creating an Integrated Engineering and Technology Education Continuum

该项目建立在实践工程教育的成功改革的基础上，这些改革是博尔德科罗拉多大学工程与应用科学学院综合教学（ITL）计划的核心。20名研究生和8名本科生GK-12研究员作为“工程大使”接受了全面培训，正在提供过去七年来国际交易日志方案中开创的教学法和工程内容。每个研究员都与一位教师导师配对，他/她对工程推广表现出兴趣。GK-12计划正在学院和K-12学校之间建立重要的合作伙伴关系，通过提供影响K-12学习者社区的独特研究生学习和指导经验，扩大ITL本科工程计划的成功。研究员作为课堂代理人，帮助教师更好地为学生准备一个越来越依赖工程和技术的世界，通过技术增强，动手学习组件与数学，物理科学和技术课程的整合。研究员通过使用基于项目的实践学习，以不同的学习风格影响K-12学生，同时协助K-12教师获得工程和技术方面的内容知识，以满足适当的国家教育标准。一些形成性和总结性的评估方法正在被用来评估和不断完善该计划的许多方面。除了提供课堂支持和鼓励更多的K-12学生追求技术职业之外，该项目还有助于使外展活动合法化，成为研究生和工程教师的有效和有价值的学术奋进。

This project builds on successful reforms in hands-on engineering education that are the core of the Integrated Teaching and Learning (ITL) Program in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Twenty graduate and 8 undergraduate GK-12 Fellows, comprehensively trained as "engineering ambassadors," are delivering the pedagogy and engineering content pioneered in the ITL Program over the past seven years. Each Fellow is paired with a faculty mentor selected for his/her demonstrated interest in engineering outreach.The GK-12 program is creating a significant partnership between the College and K-12 schools to extend the success of the ITL undergraduate engineering program by providing a unique graduate student learning and mentoring experience that impacts the K-12 community of learners. The Fellows serve as classroom agents to help teachers better prepare students for a world increasingly dependent on engineering and technology through the integration of technology-enhanced, hands-on learning components with math, physical science and technology curricula. Fellows impact K-12 students with diverse learning styles through the use of project-based, hands-on learning, while assisting K-12 teachers in gaining content knowledge on engineering and technology as vehicles to address appropriate state educational standards. A number of formative and summative evaluation methods are being used to assess and continuously refine the many facets of the program. In addition to providing classroom support and encouraging more K-12 students to pursue technical careers, the project helps legitimize outreach as a valid and worthwhile academic endeavor for graduate students and engineering faculty.