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向教师介绍基于特定学科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，以提高学生的学习。然而，目前的研讨会只覆盖了学院和大学中一小部分STEM教师，并且它们为教师发展提供了广泛的模式。该项目将组织和举办一次全国研讨会，重点讨论科学协会在STEM教师专业发展讲习班中的作用。研讨会将汇集这些研讨会的领导人，为这些研讨会找到一套最佳实践，并讨论如何将这些研讨会扩展到更大比例的STEM教师。这是一个重要的尝试，以促进大规模采用有效的教学实践在这个国家，并将有助于本科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.