2011 ALPhA Immersion Program

2011 ALPhA 沉浸式课程

• 批准号: 1106928
• 负责人: Lowell McCann
• 金额: $ 4.97万
• 依托单位: American Association of Physics Teachers
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-03-15 至 2014-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1106928&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 2011; ALPhA; Immersion; Program

This project supports a prototype offering of a new program for developing faculty expertise in teaching upper-level undergraduate physics laboratories. The ALPhA Immersions Program provides in-depth faculty-staff professional development, in which instructors spend three full days apprenticing with expert mentors, learning a single instructional-physics experiment in order to teach it confidently themselves. Six geographically diverse Immersion workshop sites are being offered in the summer of 2011, with 18 different experiments and 12 mentors. Approximately 58 faculty and staff are participating in the program. These instructors often need to teach laboratory experiments that are outside of their own fields of expertise. Intellectual Merit: Participants in the Immersions explore all aspects of a single advanced undergraduate laboratory experiment in a setting similar to their students' experience. The participants may be learning an experiment that is far from their field of specialization, but after the Immersion, they can teach that experiment at their own institution. This allows an expanded pool of students to experience contemporary instructional labs that do much more than repeat classic experiments, introducing students to modern instrumentation and increasing the breadth of experience for students who will be engaged in independent research. Broader Impacts: This program's focus is on developing faculty and instructional staff expertise in physics departments across the entire country. It does so in a very direct way, bringing small groups together to learn contemporary instructional labs that they want to implement at their own institutions, but do not have the expertise to develop on their own. Moreover, at each immersion site the collected cadre engages in broader discussions of how these labs can be integrated into their curricula, which is a conversation explicitly aimed at eliciting discussion of curricular tactics, strategies, and models. Reports on these discussions are being shared at national meetings. The impact of this program is widespread. In addition, some financial support is available to encourage participation by instructors at institutions serving under-represented populations.

该项目支持一个新计划的原型，用于开发教授教学高级本科生实验室的专业知识。 Alpha Immersions计划提供了深入的教职专业发展，在该计划中，教师在专家指导的整整三天里花了三天的时间，学习了一个教学实验实验，以便自信地教自己。 2011年夏季，正在提供六个地理上不同的浸入式研讨会网站，其中有18个不同的实验和12位导师。大约有58位教职员工正在参加该计划。这些讲师通常需要教授超出自己专业领域的实验室实验。知识分子的优点：沉浸式的参与者探讨了单个高级本科实验室实验的各个方面，以类似于学生的经验。参与者可能正在学习一个远离其专业领域的实验，但是在沉浸式之后，他们可以在自己的机构中教这项实验。这使扩大的学生可以体验当代的教学实验室，这些实验室远不及重复经典实验，向学生介绍现代仪器，并增加从事独立研究的学生的体验。更广泛的影响：该计划的重点是在全国各地的物理部门发展教师和教学人员专业知识。它以一种非常直接的方式这样做，将小组聚集在一起学习他们想在自己的机构中实施的当代教学实验室，但没有专业知识可以自己发展。此外，在每个沉浸式地点，收集的干部都会对如何将这些实验室纳入其课程进行更广泛的讨论，这是一场明确的对话，旨在引发对课程策略，策略和模型的讨论。有关这些讨论的报告正在全国会议上分享。该计划的影响很普遍。此外，还可以提供一些财政支持，以鼓励在服务不足人口的机构的讲师参与。