Societally Relevant Engineering Technologies-Research Experiences for Teachers (SRET-RET)

该奖项为三年标准奖提供资金，以支持南加州大学（USC）工程现场项目中的教师研究经验（RET），题为“社会相关工程技术-教师研究经验（SRET-RET）"，在Maja J. Mataric博士的指导下。该工程项目的愿景是利用南加州大学的大量资源，在洛杉矶市中心学校的世界知名工程研究人员和K-12教师之间建立长期合作伙伴关系。 为期六周的SRET-RET暑期课程将直接为初中和高中教育工作者（10名教师/年，为期3年）带来科学，技术和工程知识，让他们参与指导，基于发现的真实学习和研究经验，包括NSF仿生微电子系统工程研究中心（BMES）。除了沉浸在研究环境SRET-RET教师将参加工程，技术，伦理和教育学专业发展研讨会，这将有助于他们新获得的知识和技能的合成和翻译成有意义的和严格的K-12课堂活动，spark科学，技术，工程和数学的热情，使用Stigler的课程研究方法进行发展。 SRET-RET计划的学年后续部分旨在维持和阐述教师在夏季取得的成就，并促进教师与K-12同事以及大学合作伙伴之间的沟通。 SRET-RET教师将成为科学，技术和工程的榜样和管道，弥合大学研究中心和6- 12年级教室之间的传统差距。

This award provides funding for a three year standard award to support a Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering Site program at the University of Southern California (USC), entitled, "Societally Relevant Engineering Technologies-Research Experiences for Teachers (SRET-RET)", under the direction of Dr. Maja J. Mataric. The vision of this RET in Engineering Program is to leverage the considerable resources of the USC to create long-term partnerships among world-renowned engineering researchers and K-12 teachers in Los Angeles inner-city schools. The six week SRET-RET summer program will bring knowledge of science, technology and engineering directly to middle and high school educators (10 teachers/year for 3 years) by involving them in mentored, discovery-based authentic learning and research experiences in state of the art engineering research facilities including the NSF Engineering Research Center for Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems (BMES). In addition to immersion in the research environment SRET-RET teachers will participate in engineering, technology, ethics, and pedagogy professional development workshops which will facilitate the synthesis and translation of their newly gained knowledge and skills into meaningful and rigorous K-12 classroom activities that sprark enthusiasm for science, technology, engineering and math, using Stigler's lesson study approach to processional development. The academic year follow-up component of the SRET-RET program is structured to sustain and elaborate on the accomplishments the teachers make during the summer and facilitate communication between the teachers and their K-12 colleagues as well as their university partners. The SRET-RET teachers will be role models and conduits of science, technology, and engineering, bridging the traditional gaps between university centers of research and 6-12th grade classrooms.