The Role of Scientifc Societies in STEM Faculty Workshops

有证据表明，现有的STEM教师研讨会已经相当有效地实现了将教师引入基于学科特定教育研究的教学实践的目标，并激励教师尝试这些想法和材料来提高学生的学习。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。本项目将组织并举办一次全国性研讨会，重点讨论科学社团在STEM教师专业发展研讨会中的作用。研讨会将汇集这些研讨会的领导者，为这些研讨会找到一套最佳实践，并讨论将这些研讨会扩展到更大比例的STEM教师的方法。这是促进美国大规模采用有效教学实践的重要尝试，将有助于本科STEM教育的转型。

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.