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（罗伯特·帕诺夫博士，主任）与拉丁美洲和加勒比工程机构联合会（LACCEI）合作，美洲工程组织（EftA）（美洲国家组织）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，支持促进探究的教师培训计划，通过计算思维工具、技巧和技术来增强基于学习的能力。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，制定一项区域/国家教师培训计划，目标是STEM教师和大学教授，他们在本科前两年教授六年级。程序开发工作坊由两部分组成。第一个是为参与者举办培训教员讲习班，使他们了解Shodor正在实施的技术和教学法，以及COLCIENCIAS ONDAS计划正在开发的技术和工艺哥伦比亚国立教育大学的教育学专家;和来自ACOFI（哥伦比亚工程学院协会-Eduardo Selva博士，执行主任）的研究小组EDUCING。第二部分是在哥伦比亚制定教师培训计划，确定可以在区域或国家范围内推广的方法和技术。 通过在西班牙裔环境中进行这次研讨会，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;新材料将以西班牙语和英语提供。在多种语言和多种文化的情况下互动的曝光使参与者敏感并进一步全球化。互动提供了美国和哥伦比亚教师之间的合作，在该计划中接受培训，在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台提供和传播，这是国家科学数字图书馆的一个门户网站，面向所有实施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.