The Role of Scientifc Societies in STEM Faculty Workshops

有证据表明，现有的STEM教师研讨会在实现向教师介绍以特定学科教育研究为基础的教学实践以及激励教师尝试这些想法和材料以提高学生学习方面的目标方面相当有效。然而，目前的研讨会只涉及高校STEM教师的一小部分，它们为教师发展提供了广泛的模式。该项目旨在组织和举办一次全国研讨会，重点讨论科学学会在STEM教师专业发展研讨会中的作用。研讨会将把这些讲习班的领导人聚集在一起，为这些讲习班找到一套最佳做法，并讨论如何将这些讲习班扩大到更多的STEM教职员工。这是促进我国大规模采用有效教学实践的一次重要尝试，并将有助于本科STEM教育的变革。

Evidence suggests that existing STEM faculty workshops have been reasonably effective in meeting the goals of introducing faculty to pedagogical practices well-grounded in discipline-specific education research and motivating faculty to try these ideas and materials to enhance student learning. Current workshops, however, reach only a small fraction of STEM faculty in colleges and universities and they offer a wide range of models for faculty development. This project is to organize and hold a national symposium focusing on the role of scientific societies in STEM faculty professional development workshops. The symposium will bring together the leaders of these workshops to find a set of best practices for these workshops and discuss ways of extending these workshops to a larger fraction of STEM faculty members. It is an important attempt to catalyze large scale adoption of effective teaching practices in this country and will contribute to the transformation of undergraduate STEM education.