DEM-Changing Faculty through Learning Communities

DEM 通过学习社区改变教师队伍

• 批准号: 0120825
• 负责人: Karan Watson
• 金额: $ 90万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-11-01 至 2005-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0120825&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DEM; Changing; Faculty; through; Learning

The Dwight Look College of Engineering and the College of Science at Texas A&M University will conduct a demonstration project aimed at changing faculty knowledge, personal vision, commitment and interactions with students, through learning communities.The project will help faculty improve four strategic disciplines that underpin improvement of learning environments for women, underrepresented minorities and all students:1) Development and invitation -- Faculty members examine mechanisms through which women and men develop intellectually and motivationally, and understand the role of invitation in the development process.2) Mental models -- Faculty members understand and make explicit how they build chains of reasoning from observable data through assumptions to action.3) Personal vision -- Faculty members improve their capacity to imagine and act in ways that maximize their individual self-fulfillment.4) Personal commitment -- Faculty members improve their capacity to move from creating a personal vision to recognizing that they have power and responsibility to realize it.The critical element of learning environments on university campuses is the faculty; therefore, development of learner-centered educational environments rests on helping faculty develop the mental and interpersonal disciplines that provide the foundation for such environments. Changing how women are treated, how the classroom is managed, how teaching is performed, how graduate students are mentored, all depend on numerous individual faculty. However, university campuses are not analogous to neural networks that can be trained by feeding back quantitative error measurements through algorithms such as the back-propagation method. Instead, university campuses more closely resemble complex adaptive systems in which diversity, interaction and selection of numerous and complicated agents gives rise to observable, emergent properties. If the aim is to create learning environments that are both more inviting and more welcoming, it is not sufficient to bombard faculty with messages such as "Be inviting!" or "Be welcoming!". Instead, it is important to identify disciplines that should be nurtured and developed across the entire faculty with the conviction that if faculty members practice these disciplines, then they will create learning environments that are inviting and welcoming.As faculty members become more proficient in the four strategic disciplines, the project should observe changes in attitudes about learning, teaching and the role of women and minorities in SMET. The project also should observe increasing participation in the workshops and faculty learning communities sponsored by the project. Finally, the project should observe improvement in retention of women in undergraduate physicalscience and engineering; improvement in the enrollment in graduate study; and improvement in retention of women in graduate physical science and engineering.

德州农工大学的德怀特卢工程学院和理学院&将开展一个示范项目，旨在通过学习社区改变教师的知识、个人愿景、承诺和与学生的互动。该项目将帮助教师改善四个战略学科，为改善妇女、代表性不足的少数民族和所有学生的学习环境奠定基础：（1）发展和邀请----教员们审查男女在智力和积极性方面发展的机制，并理解邀请在发展过程中的作用。2）心理模型-教师理解并明确他们如何从可观察的数据通过假设到行动建立推理链。3）个人愿景-教师们提高了他们的想象力和行动能力，使他们的个人自我实现最大化。教师提高了他们的能力，从创造个人愿景到认识到他们有权力和责任实现它。大学校园是教师，因此，发展以学习者为中心的教育环境取决于帮助教师发展心理和人际关系学科，为这种环境提供基础。改变如何对待妇女，如何管理课堂，如何教学，如何指导研究生，都取决于许多个别教师。然而，大学校园并不类似于神经网络，神经网络可以通过反向传播方法等算法反馈定量误差测量来训练。相反，大学校园更类似于复杂的适应系统，其中多样性，相互作用和众多复杂代理的选择产生了可观察的，涌现的属性。如果目标是创造一个更吸引人、更受欢迎的学习环境，那么用诸如“要吸引人！或者“欢迎你！".相反，重要的是要确定应该在全体教员中培养和发展的学科，并坚信如果教员实践这些学科，那么他们将创造一个有吸引力和受欢迎的学习环境，随着教员对四个战略学科越来越精通，该项目应该观察对学习、教学以及妇女和少数民族在小型和微型教育技术中的作用的态度的变化。该项目还应注意到越来越多的人参加该项目赞助的讲习班和教师学习社区。最后，该项目应观察到在物理科学和工程专业本科生中保留妇女的情况有所改善;研究生入学率有所改善;以及在物理科学和工程专业研究生中保留妇女的情况有所改善。