ATE Program for Physics Facutly

技师教育的重点是让学生为处理复杂技术系统的劳动力工作做好准备。这些技术人员不仅需要有专门的技术知识，还需要有扎实的物理知识基础，具备识别、制定、记录和解决现在和将来实际问题的能力；以及部署新技术。该项目将为两年制大学和高中的物理教师举办一系列为期三天、密集、重点突出、实践性强的专业和课程开发研讨会/会议以及后续活动，这些教师为学生准备从事技术或技术职业做准备。每年，在不同的TYCs举办四次研讨会/会议，并提供特殊奖励，以鼓励高中和大学教授物理或物理相关课程的团队为先进技术和技术人员项目服务。来自青年学院、高中、学院/大学的教育工作者以及来自商业和工业的开发人员主持研讨会。这些工作坊提供有效的技术整合、技术实施和学习策略，包括基于微电脑的实验室、数字视频、计算机模拟、概念任务和工具、网络和互联网活动、小组工作、学习评估和物理相关技术人员教育。这些研讨会和活动旨在：1)帮助参与者建立并提高他们对学生、教育项目、商业和工业以及物理和技术领域劳动力需求的理解和欣赏；2)为他们提供最新的计算机技术进展和应用、教育辅助学院支持的中心和项目、学习评估以及相关的课程材料和活动的知识和经验；3)为他们提供开发、适应、采用和实施研讨会活动和材料的背景和激励；4)为影响学生在物理和劳动力相关问题上的学习做好准备；5)为他们提供在TYC和高中物理、技术项目、企业和工业之间建立桥梁和发展工作关系的方法和想法。讲习班通过为技术多样化的工作人员提供教学培训和技术，促进将经过验证的创新教学技术纳入课堂并加以应用。该项目正在通过适用于全国各地中学和两年制大学课程的讲习班材料，提高对物理基本概念、原理和关系的科学理解水平，这些概念、原理和关系对于合理理解物理世界及其与技术劳动力的关系至关重要。

Technician education focuses on preparing students for workforce jobs that deal with complex technical systems. Such technicians not only need to have specific technical knowledge, but also a strong base in physics knowledge so they have the competence to recognize, formulate, document, and solve real problems now and in the future; as well as deploy new technology. This project is conducting a series of three-day, intensive, focused, hands-on professional and curriculum development workshops/conferences and follow-up activities for physics faculty in two-year colleges (TYCs) and high schools who serve students preparing for technology-based or technician careers. Each year, four workshops/conferences are held at various TYCs with special incentives to encourage teams of high school and college faculty who teach physics or physics-related courses serving advanced technology and technician programs. Educators from TYCs, high schools, and colleges/universities, and developers from business and industry lead the workshops. The workshops offer effective technology integration, technology implementation, and learning strategies in areas such as microcomputer-based laboratories, digital video, computer simulations, conceptual tasks and tools, web and internet activities, group work, assessment of learning, and physics-related technician education. The workshops and activities are designed to: 1) help participants build and enhance their understanding and appreciation of the needs of students, educational programs, business and industry, and the workforce in areas dealing with physics and technology; 2) provide them with knowledge of and experience with recent advances and applications of computer-based technology, ATE supported centers and projects, assessment in learning, and relevant curriculum materials and activities; 3) equip them with the background and incentive to develop, adapt, adopt, and implement workshop activities and materials into their courses and programs; 4) prepare them to impact student learning in physics and workforce related issues; and 5) furnish them with ways and ideas for building bridges and developing working relationships between TYC and high school physics, technology programs, and with businesses and industries. The workshops facilitate the incorporation and application of proven innovative instructional techniques into classrooms by providing instructional training and techniques for a technologically diverse workforce. The project is improving the level of scientific understanding of the fundamental concepts, principles, and relations of physics that are critical to a legitimate understanding of the physical world and how it relates to the technological workforce through workshop materials applicable to secondary and two-year college courses throughout the country.