Workshops on Inquiry-Based Laboratory Teaching Methods Through the CfAO Professional Development Program, Winter 2009

专业发展计划（PDP）旨在为科学和工程研究生设计和教学探究为基础的实验室模块做好准备。由丽莎亨特博士（夏威夷大学）领导，PDP包括讲习班，然后是实际的教学经验，通常在大学一级。除了教学培训外，该计划的主要成果是PDP参与者开发和教授的创新，基于探究的实验室单元。通过PDP开发的实验室单元在夏威夷大学课程和计划中非常成功，并且是最近推出的Akamai劳动力计划（AWI）的重要组成部分，该计划包括毛伊岛社区学院新电光计划的课程开发。该奖项将部分支持PDP内举行的研讨会，并将确保夏威夷的研究生参与者纳入该计划，保持NSF自适应光学中心建立的势头和教育伙伴关系，现在转移到AWI，由夏威夷大学天文研究所管理。PDP是专门设计来培养下一代的科学家和工程师教的方式，从事来自各种背景的学生在科学的过程和实践。研究和教育的整合是PDP的重要组成部分。PDP中包括在课堂上解决多样性和公平的会议。 所有PDP参与者都必须考虑他们将如何让所有学生参与他们的教学。除了全面关注多样性和扩大参与的方法外，这项工作将对毛伊岛社区产生重大影响。PDP参与者将在包括夏威夷土著人，太平洋岛民和其他代表性不足的群体的大量课程和计划中任教。

The Professional Development Program (PDP) is designed to prepare science and engineering graduate students for designing and teaching inquiry-based laboratory modules. Led by Dr. Lisa Hunter (University of Hawaii), the PDP includes workshops followed by a practical teaching experience, usually at the college level. In addition to training for teaching, a major outcome of the program is the innovative, inquiry-based laboratory units developed and taught by PDP participants. Laboratory units developed through the PDP have been very successful in Hawaii college courses and programs, and are an essential element of the recently launched Akamai Workforce Initiative (AWI), which includes curriculum development for a new electro-optics program at Maui Community College. This award will support, in part, the workshops held within the PDP and will ensure the inclusion of Hawaii-based graduate student participants in the program, maintaining the momentum and educational partnerships established by the NSF Center for Adaptive Optics, and now being transferred to AWI, managed by the University of Hawaii, Institute for Astronomy. The PDP is specifically designed to train the next generation of scientists and engineers to teach in a way that engages students from all backgrounds in the processes and practices of science. The integration of research and education is an essential part of the PDP. Included within PDP are sessions on addressing diversity and equity in the classroom. All PDP participants are required to consider how they will engage all students in their teaching. In addition to the overall focus on diversity and methods for broadening participation, this work will have a significant impact on the Maui community. PDP participants will teach in courses and programs that include significant numbers of Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and other underrepresented groups.