TPC Proof-of-Concept: Digital Libraries go to School

该项目的主要目标是帮助教师学习如何使用NSDL资源，以有效影响他们在STEM内容领域的实践，同时提高他们作为学习活动设计者的技能。目标受众是在职的初中和高中数学和科学教师，以及任职前数学和科学课程的学生教育工作者。这个为期三年的项目的目标是：1)设计和实施教师发展模式；2)设计和实施STEM内容发展模式；3)为NSDL贡献教师设计的学习活动；4)使用评估和研究来衡量对教学的影响。教师/内容发展模式将在犹他州和纽约的城市和农村地区的小群在职教师的研讨会上进行试点测试。参与者将得到项目专家和同行的后续支持。同时，教师创建的内容将根据外部审查委员会制定并向NSDL贡献的标准进行审查。讲习班课程将被改编用于纽约州立大学、科特兰大学和密歇根州立大学的职前教师教育课程。职前学员将得到在职教师社区和项目专家的支持。讲习班材料将改编，以便以替代格式交付。项目工作人员和一名外部评估员将在整个项目期间对教学和STEM内容知识的影响进行评估。涉及的机构包括犹他州立大学、大学大气研究公司的国家科学数字图书馆(NSDL)核心集成，以及纽约州立大学科特兰分校。

The primary goal of this project is to help teachers learn to use NSDL resources in ways that meaningfully affect their practice in STEM content areas while increasing their skills as designers of learning activities. The target audience is in-service middle school and high school math and science teachers and student-educators in pre-service math and science courses. The objectives of this three-year project are to:1) design and implement a teacher development model; 2) design and implement a STEM content development model;3) contribute teacher-designed learning activities to NSDL; and 4) use evaluation and research to measure impact on teaching.The teacher/content development model will be pilot tested in workshops with small groups of in-service teachers in Utah and New York in urban and rural districts. Participants will receive follow-on support from project experts and peers. At the same time, teacher-created content will be reviewed according to a rubric developed by an external Review Committee and contributed to NSDL. The workshop curriculum will be adapted for use in pre-service teacher education classes at SUNY Cortland and USU. Pre-service participants will receive support from in-service teacher communities and project experts. Workshop materials will be adapted for delivery in alternate formats. Evaluations of the impact on teaching and STEM content knowledge will be conducted throughout the project by project staff and an external evaluator. The institutions involved include Utah State University, the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Core Integration at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, and the State University of New York at Cortland.