RIT/NazEd Tech2Teach: Developing Institutional Commitment to STEM Teacher Preparation

RIT/NazEd Tech2Teach：制定对 STEM 教师培训的机构承诺

• 批准号: 1239994
• 负责人: Scott Franklin
• 金额: $ 29.94万
• 依托单位: Rochester Institute of Tech
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1239994&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RIT; NazEd; Tech2Teach; Developing; Institutional

This capacity building project is laying the foundation for a Learning Assistant (LA) program to attract talented STEM undergraduates to careers in secondary education. The LA program, developed at the University of Colorado-Boulder, combines classroom teaching experience, directed faculty mentorship, and formal instruction on the science of how people learn to dramatically increase student interest in secondary teaching careers. This project is taking a comprehensive approach: attracting undergraduate STEM majors at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), providing a path, Tech2Teach, through Nazareth College of Rochester to certification in secondary education, and developing connections with existing high school teacher groups to provide continuing support. The project has three specific goals1. to educate and facilitate faculty development through peer group targeted workshops,2. to develop critical infrastructure, including online resources and a new course on pedagogy, and implement an LA program, and3. to extend and enhance existing collaborations with Nazareth College's School of Education (Tech2Teach) and the local Rochester Area Physics Teacher Out-Reach (RAPTOR).The broad impact of this project lies in the large number of faculty and students directly affected by the proposed activities. The physics, biology, chemistry, and mathematics departments at RIT currently include 136 faculty and 853 undergraduate majors. Through an innovative social network analysis approach that identifies teaching peer groups, the project is involving more than 70 faculty in development workshops and seminars to prepare them to mentor students in the LA program. Deep support from all involved departments is enabling the project to reach more than 400 students, educating them about the possibilities of a career in secondary education. In the second year, an LA program will be initiated that will pair 16 students with faculty mentors in classes that affect up to 500 students in STEM classes.

这个能力建设项目正在为学习助理（LA）计划奠定基础，以吸引有才华的STEM本科生从事中等教育。在科罗拉多大学博尔德分校开发的LA计划结合了课堂教学经验，指导教师指导以及关于人们如何学习的科学的正式指导，以显着提高学生对中学教学职业的兴趣。该项目正在采取一种全面的方法：吸引罗切斯特理工学院（RIT）的本科STEM专业学生，通过罗切斯特的拿撒勒学院提供一条途径Tech2Teach，以获得中等教育认证，并与现有的高中教师团体建立联系，以提供持续的支持。该项目有三个具体目标1。通过同伴小组针对性的研讨会，教育和促进教师的发展，2.发展关键的基础设施，包括在线资源和新的教学课程，并实施LA计划，以及3.扩大和加强与拿撒勒学院教育学院（Tech2Teach）和当地罗切斯特地区物理教师拓展（RAPTOR）的现有合作。该项目的广泛影响在于大量的教师和学生直接受到拟议活动的影响。RIT的物理，生物，化学和数学系目前包括136个教师和853个本科专业。通过一种创新的社交网络分析方法，确定教学同龄人群体，该项目涉及70多名教师在发展讲习班和研讨会，以准备他们在洛杉矶计划辅导学生。来自所有相关部门的大力支持使该项目能够接触到400多名学生，教育他们了解中学教育职业的可能性。在第二年，将启动一个LA计划，将16名学生与教师导师配对，影响STEM课程多达500名学生。