Collaborative Proposal: DLConnect: Connecting underserved teachers and students with NSDL learning resources and tools

犹他州立大学正在与东密歇根大学合作创建DL Connect：将缺乏服务的教师和学生与NSDL学习资源和工具联系起来。目前正在为中学教师和图书馆媒体专家开办讲习班，帮助他们将国家自然科学图书馆教材纳入中学课堂。在此之前，中学生和教师是一个没有得到NSDL充分服务的人群。几十年来的大量研究表明，中学是大量学生开始对科学和数学失去兴趣和能力的地方，帮助这个群体的重要性显而易见。该项目将直接影响两所大学服务区域内的250所中学和大量中学教师。其中许多学校服务于贫困地区，包括农村、郊区和印第安部落地区。在密歇根州，目标地区大约有100所学校未能达到规定的年度进步目标。人们观察到数学和科学领域的进步。

Utah State University is collaborating with Eastern Michigan University to create DL Connect: Connecting Underserved Teachers and Students with NSDL Learning Resources and Tools. Workshops are being developed for middle grade teachers and library media specialists to help them integrate NSDL materials into the middle school classroom. Prior to this effort middle school children and teachers were a population segment not being adequately served by NSDL. The importance of helping this group is evident from the numerous studies conducted over several decades pointing to the middle school as the place that large numbers of students begin to lose interest and ability in science and mathematics. The project is having a direct impact on 250 middle schools and a large number of middle school teachers within the service areas of the two universities. Many of these schools are serving impoverished districts including those located in rural, suburban, and Native American tribal areas. In Michigan, approximately 100 schools in the targeted area are failing to meet the mandated adequate yearly progress goals. . Improvements in the mathematics and science areas are being observed.