Transforming Undergraduate STEM Experiences Through the Next Generation of Scientist and Engineer Educators

专业发展计划(PDP)通过培训参与者(主要是研究生)在本科生水平上教授科学和工程来培养未来的教师专业知识。PDP经过十多年的发展，包括研讨会、实践教学经验和教学后反思。所有参与者都设计并教授一项整合了包容性教学策略的探究性学习活动，然后他们使用通过评估收集的证据来评估活动的有效性，他们也设计了评估。超过200名参与者，主要来自两个机构，现在已经完成了完整的计划。目前的项目正在通过提高方案的效率和可持续性以及更广泛的受众的可及性来扩大方案的影响。努力包括：从完全面对面的培训模式过渡到在线/面对面相结合的方法；在新的地点培训该方案的新学徒讲师；测试新的传播模式并在四个新的伙伴地点实施；通过客观评估监测PDP的有效性。该项目具有前瞻性，侧重于传播。它将把每年的参与者数量从60人左右扩大到100人左右，网站数量从2个增加到6个。PDP参与者每年将教授300名本科生。随着不断扩大的PDP校友群体在他们的职业生涯中不断进步，这个项目有可能影响到全国范围内向更有效、更具包容性的教学的范式转变。

The Professional Development Program (PDP) develops future faculty expertise by training participants (mostly graduate students) to teach science and engineering at the undergraduate level. The PDP has evolved over ten years and consists of workshops, a practical teaching experience, and a post-teaching reflection. Participants all design and teach an inquiry learning activity that integrates inclusive teaching strategies, and then they evaluate the effectiveness of their activity using evidence gathered through an assessment, which they also design. Over 200 participants, primarily from two institutions, have now completed the full program. The current project is expanding the impact of the PDP by improving the efficiency and the sustainability of the program, and its accessibility to a broader audience. Efforts include: transitioning from a fully in-person training model to a blended online/in-person approach; training new apprentice instructors of the program at new sites; testing new dissemination models and implementing them at four new partner sites; and monitoring the effectiveness of the PDP through objective assessments. This project is forward-looking and focused on dissemination. It will expand annual capacity from about 60 to about 100 participants, and the number of sites from two to six. PDP participants will, in turn, teach 300 undergraduates per year. As the expanded group of PDP alumni continue to advance in their careers, this project has the potential to affect a paradigm shift toward more effective, inclusive teaching nationally.