PolarTREC - Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating

这一建议继续并扩展了PolarTREC计划，该计划为K-12教育工作者与研究人员在北极和南极的实地体验牵线搭桥。该项目每年将从全国申请者中挑选6-8个北极项目和4-6个南极项目来接待教师。在四年内，48名教师将前往极地地区。该项目有四个目标：提高教师对多学科极地科学的教学知识；改进教师的教学实践，特别是使用探究性学习将极地科学转化为课堂；改善极地研究人员？对K-12教育的理解和参与；并增加学生？了解和参与极地和极地科学、技术、工程或数学(STEM)职业。教师体验包括集中培训，重点是获得成功的实地经验并将其转化为课堂经验，制定侧重于他们特定需求和目标的教育和外联计划，最后一篇论文，将期刊和照片提交到一个网站，提供实时材料，并偶尔从外地进行现场直播，通过分享费用开展后续交流活动，以及建立教师网络，分享将这些经验纳入课堂的想法，所有这些都得到外部评估的支持，使用形成性和总结性技术来解决教师专业发展问题。

This proposal continues and expands the PolarTREC program that matches K-12 educators with researchers for field experiences in the Arctic and Antarctic. Annually the project will select 6-8 Arctic and 4-6 Antarctic projects to host teachers selected from nationwide applicants. Over four years, 48 teachers will go to the polar regions. The project has four objectives to: improve teacher content knowledge of multidisciplinary polar science; improve teacher instructional practices, especially the use of inquiry-based learning to translate polar science to the classroom; improve polar researchers? understanding of and engagement in K-12 education; and increase students? understanding of and engagement in the polar regions and polar science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) careers. The teacher experience includes an intense orientation focusing on having a successful field experience and translating that into the classroom, developing an education and outreach plan that focuses on their specific needs and goals, a final essay, submitting journals and photos to a website of real-time materials plus occasional live broadcasts from the field, follow up through a share fare to exchange activities and a network of teachers sharing ideas for incorporating the experience into their classrooms all backed up by external evaluation of the project using formative and summative techniques to address teacher professional development.