Planning and Development of an International Collaborative Teacher Training Program in Inquiry-based Learning: A U.S. - Colombian Collaboration

Shodor Education Foundation，Inc.(主任Robert Panoff博士)与拉丁美洲和加勒比工程机构联盟(LACCEI)和美洲工程组织(EFTA)(美洲国家组织)合作，在哥伦比亚开展规划和发展工作，扩大美国和哥伦比亚之间的国际合作，以支持教师培训计划，促进通过计算思维工具、技术和技术增强的探究式学习。美国和哥伦比亚LACCEI的主要成员以及美国和哥伦比亚的教育专家将会面，制定一项针对STEM教师和大学教授的地区/国家教师培训计划，从六年级到本科的头两年。项目开发研讨会由两部分组成。首先是为参与者举办一次培训者培训讲习班，以获得通过Shodor实施的技术和教学法知识，并与COLCIENCIAS(NSF对应机构)的Ondas计划正在开发的技术和技术相结合；来自国家教育大学的哥伦比亚教学专家；以及来自Acofi的研究小组(哥伦比亚工程学院协会-Eduardo Selva博士，执行主任)。第二部分是关于在哥伦比亚发展一项教师培训方案，采用已确定的可在区域或国家范围内推广的方法和技术。通过在拉美裔环境中举办这次研讨会，预计Noyce学者和美国研究人员将了解影响少数族裔参与STEM动机的多元文化问题；新材料将以西班牙语和英语提供。多语言、多文化互动的暴露使参与者变得敏感，并进一步使他们全球化。这种互动为接受过该项目培训的美国和哥伦比亚教师提供了合作，在他们的课堂上提供了国际合作活动，并影响了学生的全球化。这些材料还将通过绍多尔国家计算科学研究所及其计算科学教育参考台(国家科学数字图书馆的门户网站)向所有实施NSF Noyce教师奖学金和奖学金计划的学校提供和传播。这一国际项目由国际科学与工程办公室和EHR/DUE罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金和奖学金计划共同资助。

The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc (Dr. Robert Panoff, Director) teams with the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI), and Engineering for the Americas (EftA) (of the Organization of American States) to conduct a planning and development effort in Colombia leading to an expanded international collaboration between the US and Colombia to support teacher training programs promoting inquiry-based learning enhanced by computational thinking tools, techniques, and technologies. Key US and Colombian LACCEI members, and pedagogical experts in the US and Colombia will meet to develop a regional/ national teacher training program targeting STEM teachers and university professors teaching 6th grade through the first two years of undergraduate. The Program Development Workshop consists of two parts. The first is to conduct a Train the Trainers workshop for the participants to acquire knowledge of the technology and pedagogy being implemented through Shodor in conjunction with techniques and technologies being developed by the ONDAS program at COLCIENCIAS (NSF counterpart); pedagogical experts in Colombia from the National Pedagogical University; and the research group EDUCING from ACOFI (the Colombian Engineering Faculty Association- Dr. Eduardo Selva, Executive Director). The second part is on the development of a teacher training program in Colombia in the identified approaches and technologies that can scale regionally or nationally. By conducting this workshop in a Hispanic environment, it is anticipated that Noyce scholars and U.S. researchers will learn about multicultural issues that affect motivation of minorities to participate in STEM; new materials would be available in Spanish and English. The exposure of interaction in situation of multiple languages and multiple cultures sensitizes participants and further globalizes them. The interaction provides collaboration among the U.S. and Colombian teachers trained in the program, providing international collaboration activities within their classroom and affecting the globalization of the students. The materials will also be available and disseminated through Shodor's National Computational Science Institute and its Computational Science Education Reference Desk, a Pathway portal of the National Science Digital Library to all schools implementing the NSF Noyce Teacher Scholarship and Fellowship program. This international project is jointly funded through the Office of International Science and Engineering and the EHR/DUE Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship and Fellowship Program.