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

Shodor教育基金会（Robert Panoff博士，董事）与拉丁美洲和加勒比工程机构联盟（LACCEI）和美洲工程协会（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，支持教师培训项目，促进通过计算思维工具增强的研究性学习。技巧和技术。美国和哥伦比亚LACCEI的主要成员以及美国和哥伦比亚的教学专家将会面，制定一项针对STEM教师和大学教授的区域/国家教师培训计划，这些教师从六年级到本科头两年。程序开发研讨会由两部分组成。第一是举办培训人员讲习班，使参加者掌握通过Shodor实施的技术和教学法的知识，并结合ONDAS方案在COLCIENCIAS（国家科学基金会对应物）开发的技术和技术；哥伦比亚国立师范大学的教学专家；以及ACOFI（哥伦比亚工程学院协会- Eduardo Selva博士，执行董事）的EDUCING研究小组。第二部分是关于在哥伦比亚制定一项教师培训计划，采用已确定的可在区域或全国推广的方法和技术。通过在西班牙裔环境中开展本次研讨会，预计诺伊斯学者和美国研究人员将了解影响少数民族参与STEM动机的多元文化问题；将提供西班牙文和英文的新材料。多语言、多文化情境下的互动暴露使参与者变得敏感，并进一步使其全球化。这种互动提供了在该项目中接受培训的美国和哥伦比亚教师之间的合作，在他们的课堂上提供国际合作活动，并影响学生的全球化。这些材料也将通过Shodor的国家计算科学研究所及其计算科学教育参考咨询台（国家科学数字图书馆的通道门户）提供和传播给所有实施NSF Noyce教师奖学金和奖学金计划的学校。该国际项目由国际科学与工程办公室和EHR/DUE Robert Noyce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.