COLLABORATIVE: Faculty Development to Support High Impact Activities That Transform Undergraduate Geoscience Education

协作：教师发展以支持改变本科地球科学教育的高影响力活动

• 批准号: 1134954
• 负责人: Jill Singer
• 金额: $ 24.94万
• 依托单位: SUNY College at Buffalo
• 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: 2011-08-01 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1134954&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: COLLABORATIVE; Faculty; Development; Support; Impact

This project is supporting digital resource development and faculty workshops aimed at building capacity within the geosciences community to increase both the quantity and quality of grant proposals submitted to the NSF TUES program and other NSF education programs. This project is delivering a menu of proposal writing workshops (at sectional and regional geoscience conferences, and stand-alone multi-day workshops) aimed at earth, oceans, atmospheric, environmental, and geospatial science faculty from research and comprehensive universities, and two- and four-year colleges. The project is targeting faculty with limited or no previous NSF education funding. An important part of this project involves collecting survey data aimed at identifying reasons contributing to low geoscience submission rates to the TUES program in particular.A primary outcome of this project is to generate an increase in both the quality and quantity of TUES proposals submitted by geoscience faculty to the TUES program. Increasing the number of quality TUES proposals submitted may lead to greater numbers of TUES proposals funded, but more importantly indicates a greater number of geoscience faculty engaged at a highly creative level in improving the quality of geosciences education for all students. This project is also increasing the awareness among geoscience faculty of NSF education programs, and of the characteristics of competitive proposals. Faculty attending the workshops and using the digital resources are joining a network of geoscientists who share a common concern for engaging students through active learning. To help build expertise and leadership in the successful development of education-related grant proposals within the geoscience community "facilitator-training" activities are being integrated into several of the workshops.By targeting geoscience faculty at all institutional types across the country, this project is improving the quality of geoscience education for large numbers of undergraduates, both STEM majors and non-majors. Project efforts targeting faculty with no previous NSF education funding experience is broadening participation by faculty and institutions that have had limited prior interaction within the geoscience education community. Closed-captioned digital resources developed by this project are facilitating information sharing among faculty workshop participants and among faculty who are accessing these information resources over the Internet.

该项目正在支持数字资源开发和教师研讨会，旨在建设地球科学界的能力，以提高提交给 NSF TUES 计划和其他 NSF 教育计划的拨款提案的数量和质量。该项目正在提供一系列提案写作研讨会（在部门和区域地球科学会议上，以及独立的多日研讨会），针对研究型大学和综合性大学以及两年制和四年制学院的地球、海洋、大气、环境和地理空间科学教师。该项目针对的是先前 NSF 教育资助有限或没有的教师。该项目的一个重要部分是收集调查数据，旨在查明导致 TUES 计划地球科学提交率低的原因。该项目的主要成果是提高地球科学教师向 TUES 计划提交的 TUES 提案的质量和数量。增加提交的优质 TUES 提案数量可能会导致更多的 TUES 提案获得资助，但更重要的是表明更多的地球科学教师以高度创造性的水平致力于提高所有学生的地球科学教育质量。该项目还提高了地球科学教师对 NSF 教育计划以及竞争性提案特征的认识。参加研讨会并使用数字资源的教师正在加入一个地球科学家网络，他们共同关注通过主动学习吸引学生。为了帮助在地球科学界成功制定与教育相关的资助提案方面建立专业知识和领导力，“主持人培训”活动正在被纳入多个研讨会中。通过针对全国所有类型机构的地球科学教师，该项目正在提高大量本科生（包括 STEM 专业和非专业）的地球科学教育质量。针对以前没有 NSF 教育资助经验的教师的项目工作正在扩大以前在地球科学教育界内互动有限的教师和机构的参与。该项目开发的隐藏式字幕数字资源正在促进教师研讨会参与者以及通过互联网访问这些信息资源的教师之间的信息共享。