Collaborative Proposal: Expanding CCB FEST - Community College Biology Faculty Enhancement through Scientific Teaching

在一项涉及旧金山州立大学和Foothill-DeAnza社区学院区的合作项目中，暑期教学学院继续为旧金山湾区的社区学院教师提供服务。这些机构向教师介绍科学教学的概念和态度，并为教师提供专业发展，以改变他们的做法，包括目标设定和评估，以确定目标是否已经实现。在项目扩展的第二阶段，第二个高级暑期学院将面向有兴趣合作开发通用评估工具的第一阶段毕业生开放。该工具应用于旧金山地区的社区大学生群体，产生了强大的数据来衡量科学教学对学生学习的有效性。新兴学习社区的其他活动包括教学广场，一个或几个机构的四名教师小组定期聚在一起分享教学策略并观察彼此的课程；一名社区大学教师导师和一名有意从事大学教学工作的旧金山州立大学研究生之间的合作伙伴关系。对该项目的第一阶段的热烈反应要求将其扩大和扩大。在建立有效性数据的方向上这样做会使经验更加丰富。该项目由生物科学理事会和本科教育司教育和人力资源理事会共同资助，作为他们为实现本科生物学教育的愿景和变革所做努力的一部分。

In a collaborative project involving San Francisco State University and the Foothill-DeAnza Community College District, Summer Teaching Institutes continue to be offered to community-college faculty of the San Francisco Bay area. These institutes introduce faculty to the concepts and attitudes of scientific teaching and provide professional development for faculty to change their practices to include goal setting and assessment to determine whether the goals have been met. In this expanded second stage of the project, a second Advanced Summer Institute is available to graduates of the first who are interested in collaborating to develop a common assessment tool. This tool applied to the population of San Francisco area community college students generates powerful data measuring the effectiveness of scientific teaching on student learning. Additional activities of the emerging learning community include Teaching Squares, groups of four faculty at one or several institutions who meet together regularly to share teaching strategies and observe each others' classes; and Classroom Partnerships between a mentor community college faculty member and a SFSU graduate student interested in pursuing college-level teaching as a career. The enthusiastic response to the first phase of this project demanded that it be extended and amplified. To do so in the direction of establishing data on effectiveness makes the experience all the richer. This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their efforts toward Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education.