Professional Development Institutes to Increase Afterschool Educators' Use of the NSDL

专业发展机构将增加课外教育工作者对 NSDL 的使用

• 批准号: 0532756
• 负责人: Sherry Hsi
• 金额: $ 65万
• 依托单位: Exploratorium
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0532756&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Professional; Development; Institutes; Increase; Afterschool

In partnership with the California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC), an established statewide after-school leader-training network, this project makes use of new curricular modules and existing STEM resources found in the Exploratorium digital library and the NSDL to create and offer professional development institutes for use by state and regional after school organizations. Professional development institutes consist of four linked components: (1) workshops and seminars, (2) technical assistance, (3) a collegial community of practitioners, and (4) curricular modules that combine NSDL digital resources and tools with inquiry-based, hands-on science activities for after school audiences. Unlike many after school activities, the curricular modules are designed to be academically challenging, science-rich, and youth interest-driven. In addition to workshops for after school leaders and their teaching staff, the project documents the words used by youth and after school educators to search and access the Exploratorium digital library, mapping these to scientific vocabularies as metadata to help make NSDL more usable to educators and the underrepresented youth they serve.This project is making important practical and pedagogical impact. It provides an example of a museum-after school partnership that expands the use of NSDL - a content provider (the Exploratorium) working with an established statewide training network (CalSAC) to create a program of STEM professional development combining the rich resources of the NSDL and technical assistance for leaders of after school programs and their program staff. In addition, the project is building the scientific literacy of the after school educators and the youth they serve using the rich repository of learning resources in the NSDL, thereby addressing a key underserved audience.Co-funding for this project is being provided by the office of Multidisciplinary Activities in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) in recognition of the value that museum-after school partnerships have in promoting the integration of research and education in areas of interest to MPS.

在与加州学龄联盟（CalSAC），一个既定的全州课后领导者培训网络的合作伙伴关系，该项目利用新的课程模块和现有的STEM资源，发现在探索数字图书馆和NSDL创建和提供专业发展机构，供国家和地区课后组织使用。专业发展机构由四个相互关联的组成部分组成：（1）讲习班和研讨会，（2）技术援助，（3）从业者的大学社区，以及（4）课程模块，将联合收割机NSDL数字资源和工具与课后观众基于调查的实践科学活动相结合。与许多课外活动不同，课程模块的设计是学术上具有挑战性，科学丰富，青年兴趣驱动。除了为课后领导人及其教学人员举办讲习班外，该项目还记录了青年和课后教育工作者搜索和访问Exploratorium数字图书馆时使用的词汇，将这些词汇映射为科学词汇，作为元数据，以帮助教育工作者和他们所服务的代表性不足的青年更好地使用NSDL。它提供了一个博物馆课后合作伙伴关系的例子，扩大了NSDL的使用-一个内容提供商（探索馆）与一个既定的全州培训网络（CalSAC）合作，创建一个STEM专业发展计划，结合了NSDL的丰富资源和课后计划领导人及其计划工作人员的技术援助。此外，该项目正在利用国家科学发展基金中丰富的学习资源库，培养课外教育工作者及其所服务的青年的科学素养，该项目由数学和物理科学理事会（MPS）多学科活动办公室共同资助，以表彰博物馆的价值-课后伙伴关系促进了MPS感兴趣的领域的研究和教育的整合。