Enhancing STEM Student Learning through Faculty Development: Workshops for New Physics and Astronomy Faculty

通过教师发展加强 STEM 学生的学习：新物理和天文学教师研讨会

• 批准号: 0813481
• 负责人: Robert Hilborn
• 金额: $ 89.21万
• 依托单位: American Association of Physics Teachers
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-15 至 2015-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0813481&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancing; STEM; Student; Learning; through

The goals of the workshop are to: 1. Reach a large fraction of the physics and astronomy faculty in tenure-track positions prior to their receiving tenure; 2. Help participants develop knowledge about recent developments in physics and astronomy pedagogy and the assessment of changes in pedagogy; and 3. Work with participants to integrate workshop ideas and materials into their classrooms in a way that has a positive impact on their students' learning, their departments and their own professional development. Intellectual Merit: Physics and astronomy faculty who enter the professorate directly from graduate school or from a postdoctoral position typically have not had experience with the type of teaching that physics and astronomy education research (PER and AER) has shown to be effective. The New Physics and Astronomy Faculty Workshops, with a combination of plenary sessions and small breakout groups run by national leaders in physics education, introduce participants to pedagogical methods that research has found to be effective in actively engaging students in learning. Most of these pedagogical methods have been developed with NSF funding, and the workshop provides an important means of disseminating these effective teaching strategies to a large fraction of new tenure-track physics and astronomy faculty. Further, the workshop introduces new physics and astronomy faculty to the scholarship of teaching and to methods of assessing and evaluating student learning within a framework of general professional development. Broader Impacts: The five-year project expects to engage approximately 600 new physics and astronomy faculty members, or 40-50% of all new faculty, in about 60% of physics and astronomy departments. External evaluation of the project carried out in 2006-2007 shows that the New Faculty Workshop has had a positive impact on the workshop participants' students, the students' learning, and their departments. A number of the workshop participants from the early years of the project have served as chairs of their departments, and their experience with the New Faculty Workshop has positively influenced the courses taught in their departments and changed departmental views on what constitutes effective teaching. In addition, the New Physics and Astronomy Faculty Workshops are being used as models for developing similar programs by other scientific societies. All of these activities taken collectively can play a transformative role in enhancing undergraduate STEM education.

研讨会的目标是：1。在他们获得终身教职之前，达到大部分物理学和天文学教师的终身教职; 2.帮助学员了解物理学和天文学教学法的最新发展以及对教学法变化的评估;与参与者合作，将研讨会的想法和材料融入他们的课堂，对学生的学习，他们的部门和他们自己的专业发展产生积极的影响。智力优势：物理学和天文学教师直接从研究生院或博士后职位进入教授职位，通常没有物理学和天文学教育研究（PER和AER）已证明有效的教学类型的经验。新的物理和天文学教师研讨会，与全体会议和小型分组由国家领导人在物理教育的组合，向参与者介绍教学方法，研究发现，积极吸引学生学习是有效的。这些教学方法中的大多数都是在NSF的资助下开发的，研讨会为向大部分新的终身制物理学和天文学教师传播这些有效的教学策略提供了重要手段。此外，讲习班向新的物理学和天文学教师介绍教学奖学金以及在一般专业发展框架内评估和评价学生学习的方法。 更广泛的影响：这个为期五年的项目预计将吸引大约600名新的物理和天文学教师，占所有新教师的40-50%，约60%的物理和天文学系。2006-2007年对该项目进行的外部评估表明，新教师讲习班对讲习班参与者的学生、学生的学习及其所在系产生了积极影响。从该项目的早期几年的研讨会参与者的数量已担任其部门的主席，他们的经验与新的教师研讨会有积极的影响，在他们的部门教授的课程，并改变了部门的看法，什么是有效的教学。此外，新物理学和天文学教师讲习班正在被其他科学学会用作开发类似计划的模式。所有这些活动都可以在加强本科STEM教育方面发挥变革性作用。