Forming, Advancing, and Sustaining Teacher-Engineer Relationships (FASTER)

该奖项为哥伦比亚大学工程和计算机科学现场项目的教师研究经验（RET）提供了为期三年的标准奖，题为“形成、推进和维持教师与工程师的关系（FASTER）”，由Raimondo Betti博士和Jay Dubner先生指导。哥伦比亚大学傅氏基金会工程与应用科学学院将利用其掌握的所有资源开发一个RET站点，该站点将为大学预科科学教师提供指导工程实验室经验。拟议的RET站点将在哥伦比亚大学的研究实验室中安排10名公立初中和高中教师，这些教师由工程与应用科学学院的教职员工领导，在连续的两个夏季中，每个夏季安排8周。另外一名中学教师将在澳大利亚詹姆斯库克大学的环境工程实验室工作6周。10名国内教师中有9名将来自纽约大都会地区。第十名教师将来自新加坡的一所中学。他们的研究经验将通过每周的教学会议得到加强。fast的主要目标是通过让教师参与工程研究并帮助他们将新知识转化为课堂活动，促进中学科学教师和大学研究人员之间的长期合作伙伴关系。最终的接受者将是纽约市地区的学生，他们的人口在科学和工程方面的代表性很大。哥伦比亚大学的教职员工将为教师提供机会，在适应专业发展的环境中获得使用科学和工程工具和材料的经验。因此，教师对工程的理解，以及他们开发和领导基于探究和标准的科学课程和实验室的能力将得到提高。此外，教师将接触到一个新的视角和不同的专业文化，使他们能够向他们的学生和同事传达应用科学的活力和活力。

This award provides funding for a three year standard award for a Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science Site Program at Columbia University entitled, Forming, Advancing, and Sustaining Teacher-Engineer Relationships (FASTER), under the direction of Dr. Raimondo Betti and Mr. Jay Dubner. Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will use all of the resources at its disposal to develop an RET site which will provide pre-college science teachers with a mentored engineering laboratory experience. The proposed RET site will place ten public middle and high school teachers in Columbia's research laboratories headed by faculty members with appointments in the School of Engineering and Applied Science for 8 weeks in each of two consecutive summers. An additional secondary school teacher will work in an environmental engineering laboratory at James Cook University in Australia for 6 weeks. Nine of the ten domestic placed teachers will be from the New York metropolitan area. The tenth teacher will be from a secondary school in Singapore. Their research experience will be enhanced through weekly pedagogical meetings.FASTER's primary goal is to facilitate long-term collaborative partnerships between secondary school science teachers and university researchers by involving teachers in engineering research and helping them translate their new knowledge into classroom activities. The ultimate recipients will be New York City area students whose population are largely underrepresented in the sciences and engineering. Columbia University faculty will provide teachers with opportunities to gain hands on experience with the tools and materials of science and engineering in an environment attuned to professional development. Thus, teachers understanding of engineering and their ability to develop and lead inquiry- and standards-based science classes and laboratories will improve. In addition, the teachers will be exposed to a new perspective and a different professional culture which enables them to communicate the vitality and dynamism of applied science to their students and colleagues.