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

犹他州州立大学正在与东密歇根大学合作创建DL连接：用NSDL学习资源和工具连接服务不足的教师和学生。 正在为中学教师和图书馆媒体专家开发讲习班，帮助他们将NSDL材料融入中学课堂。 在这一努力之前，中学儿童和教师是NSDL没有充分服务的人口部分。 几十年来进行的大量研究表明，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，帮助这一群体的重要性显而易见。该项目对两所大学服务范围内的250所中学和大量中学教师产生了直接影响。 这些学校中有许多是服务于贫困地区，包括那些位于农村，郊区和美洲原住民部落地区。 在密歇根州，目标地区约有100所学校未能达到规定的适当年度进展目标。. 数学和科学领域的进步正在观察之中。

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.