Integrating Academic and Technical Education for Advanced Technological Careers

整合学术和技术教育以促进先进技术职业

• 批准号: 0053294
• 负责人: Judith Leff
• 金额: $ 80万
• 依托单位: Education Development Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-06-01 至 2003-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0053294&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integrating; Academic; Technical; Education; Advanced

This project expands the work begun in a previous NSF supported project to create a curriculum that integrates academic and technical education and that meets both national academic and industry skill standards. In an earlier project Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), Baltimore City Community College (BCCC) and Southern High School in Baltimore partnered to create an integrated biology/biotechnology high school curriculum unit, and pilot tested it in biology and biotechnology classes. The unit weaves together readings, activities, discussions and analyses, emphasizing a conceptual understanding of scientific principles with laboratories that stress biotechnology skills, the ability to perform technical procedures, and an understanding of the scientific basis of experiments. The curriculum relates learning to careers and real-life work. The goal of that project was to broaden the learning of both academic and technical students. Academic students conduct laboratory experiments, develop technical skills and learn about real life uses of these in occupations, careers and work places. Technical students learn more about the concepts, theories and history underlying the technical skills they develop. This new project extends these goals by field testing this first unit (to obtain more empirical data about student outcomes). The project is also developing a second unit covering topics related to those of the first unit, and following the same format of the first unit. The two units are being pilot-tested together in several high schools (in biology and biotechnology courses) in the greater Baltimore area. Consultants from industry, 2-year colleges, and 4-year colleges are validating the units in terms of their suitability in preparing students for college level work, and providing skills required in the high-skilled workforce. Teacher guides, student books, videos of practitioner role models in workplaces, and scenarios for instruction and assessment, are being produced. High school teachers are being trained in the new curriculum and in related pedagogy.

该项目扩展了以前NSF支持的项目中开始的工作，以创建一个整合学术和技术教育并符合国家学术和行业技能标准的课程。在早期的项目教育发展中心，公司。(EDC)，巴尔的摩城市社区学院（BCCC）和巴尔的摩的南方高中合作创建了一个综合生物/生物技术高中课程单元，并在生物和生物技术课上进行了试点测试。该单元将阅读，活动，讨论和分析编织在一起，强调对科学原理的概念性理解，强调生物技术技能，执行技术程序的能力以及对实验科学基础的理解。课程将学习与职业和现实生活中的工作联系起来。该项目的目标是扩大学术和技术学生的学习。学术学生进行实验室实验，发展技术技能，并了解这些职业，职业和工作场所的真实的生活用途。技术专业的学生学习更多的概念，理论和历史背后的技术技能，他们开发。这个新项目通过实地测试第一个单元（以获得更多关于学生成绩的经验数据）来扩展这些目标。该项目还在编制第二个单元，涵盖与第一个单元有关的主题，并采用与第一个单元相同的格式。这两个单元正在大巴尔的摩地区的几所高中（生物和生物技术课程）一起进行试点测试。来自行业，2年制大学和4年制大学的顾问正在验证这些单位是否适合为学生准备大学水平的工作，并提供高技能劳动力所需的技能。正在制作教师指南、学生用书、工作场所从业者榜样录像以及教学和评估情景。中学教师正在接受新课程和相关教学法的培训。