The Finger Lakes GIT Ahead Project: Creating Career Paths for Geospatial Technology Professionals Through Teacher Enhancement and Student Engagement

该项目的重点是通过教师专业发展、教育软件开发以及为城市和农村学校的高中生提供实习、工作影子和职业准备经验，为地理空间信息技术（GIT）领域的劳动力做好准备。GIT Ahead项目是霍巴特和威廉史密斯学院、卡尤加社区学院、康奈尔大学、地理空间技术应用研究所和纽约州地理信息系统协会。其目标是帮助农村和城市高中学生将地理空间技术视为通往职业生涯的途径，并为那些可能不会追求这些目标的学生创造高等教育途径。GIT Ahead通过教师专业发展，开发基于互联网的手指湖GIS浏览器软件，以及为学生提供一系列课堂和以工作为中心的GIT机会来实现这些目标。跨学科的教师团队参加为期两周的暑期研究所，该研究所提供相关技术的培训，沿着时间和支持，以开发适合自己班级使用的基于探究的课程项目。参与的学生有机会在高中课堂上体验GIT增强单元，进入卡尤加社区学院的GIS副学士学位课程，并参加手指湖研究所，地理空间技术应用研究所，高中教师的跨学科团队正在开发基于探究的单元，通过GIT满足现有的课程需求，项目的重点是手指湖流域和区域规划问题。GIT Ahead项目正在开发利用GIT解决环境问题的模式，并为学生提供成功解决地方和区域环境问题所需的分析和技术技能，该项目使公立学校、参与机构、科技教育和五指湖区受益。参与的教师正在以传统上代表性不足或处境不利的学生的方式使用GIT。参与的学生正在体验大学生活，激励他们不仅从高中毕业，而且还追求两年或四年的大学学位。与此同时，参与机构正在增强其向整个区域的教育工作者、大学生和公立学校学生提供性别平等信息技术培训和经验的能力。这些方法正在增加能够在各种工作环境中使用GIT的个人数量。

This project focuses on workforce preparation in Geospatial Information Technology (GIT) fields through teacher professional development, educational software development, and provision of internships, job shadowing, and career preparation experiences for high school students in urban and rural schools.The GIT Ahead Project is a collaborative effort among the Finger Lakes Institute at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Cayuga Community College, Cornell University, the Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology, and New York State Geographical Information Systems Association. The goal is to help rural and urban high school students see geospatial technology as pathways to careers and to create higher education pathways for students who might not otherwise pursue such goals. GIT Ahead is accomplishing these goals through teacher professional development, the development of the Internet-based Finger Lakes GIS Explorer software, and a series of classroom and job-focused GIT opportunities for students. Interdisciplinary teams of teachers attend a two-week summer institute that provides training in relevant technologies along with time and support for development of inquiry-based curriculum projects tailored for use in their own classes.Participating students have opportunities to experience GIT-enhanced units in their high school classes, enter the GIS Associate's Degree program at Cayuga Community College, and participate in summer internships at the Finger Lakes Institute, the Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology, and regional businesses.Interdisciplinary teams of high school teachers are developing inquiry-based units that meet existing curricular needs through GIT-based projects focused on Finger Lakes watersheds and regional planning issues. The GIT Ahead project is developing models for the use of GIT in addressing environmental issues and is providing students with the analytic and technical skills necessary to successfully address local and regional environmental concerns.This project benefits public schools, the participating institutions, science and technology education, and the Finger Lakes Region. Participating teachers are using GIT in ways that reach traditionally under-represented or disadvantaged students. Participating students are experiencing college life, motivating them to not only graduate from high school, but also to pursue either a two-year or four-year college degree. Concurrently, the participating institutions are augmenting their capacities to offer GIT training and experiences to educators, college students and public school students throughout the region. These approaches are increasing the number of individuals capable of using GIT in a variety of work settings.