Collaborative Research: Marine Technology for Teachers and Students - MaTTS

教师和学生的海洋技术（MaTTS）计划为来自新英格兰南部的教师和学生团队提供机会，体验与探索全球海洋相关的新技术，使用这些新工具发现海洋职业的途径，并培养领导能力。正在评估这些干预措施，以确定其对与STEM劳动力相关的教师和学生的技能，知识，实践和态度的影响。合作学区包括高需求学校。每年，一批12名教师领导人被选中参加99小时的面对面的专业发展。此外，通过URI的内部空间中心（ISC）每月的网络研讨会和现场广播，使用信息和通信技术进行至少15小时的虚拟接触。MatTTS的直接接触小时数翻了一番，发现在传统的教师PD的改进实践的规模倾斜。教师专业发展包括海洋科学和技术培训，使他们在暑期密集学习期间与学生领袖一起工作。每年有24名高中学生领袖加入教师队伍，每个参与教师学校有两名学生。教师/学生团队居住在ISC，在那里他们将建立，校准和部署基于传感器的仪器;参加实地演习，收集和分析数据;并与来自学术界和工业界的海洋科学家，工程师和技术人员会面。该项目在14个月的时间里让各团队参与，通过让学生参与者接触海洋技术，培养他们的创新思维，这些技术使科学家能够到达深海环境的极端，并收集近海岸的数据，帮助我们更好地管理沿海资源，监测影响日常生活的条件。学生和教师获得新的技能，因为他们站在ISC手表在海洋研究探索，使他们接触到开放式的，现实世界的问题解决。他们与地面和海上的海洋科学家和工程师互动。教师领导者指导他们学校的同事。他们分享内容和海洋技术，其应用和相关的课堂活动。他们还制定了将更多技术融入课堂的计划。教师团队在项目网站上保留电子辅导日志，以便分享活动和成果。学生领袖协助老师向同学介绍新的海洋技术，并与所在地区的中学生一起开展活动。

The Marine Technology for Teachers and Students (MaTTS) program provides opportunities for teams of teachers and students from southern New England to experience new technologies related to exploring the global ocean, discover pathways in marine careers using these new tools, and develop leadership capacity. These interventions are being evaluated to determine their impact on the skills, knowledge, practices, and attitudes of the teachers and students that are related to the STEM workforce. Partner school districts include high-need schools. Each year, a cohort of 12 teacher leaders is selected to participate in 99 hours of face-to-face professional development. In addition, a minimum of 15 hours of virtual contact using Information and Communication Technology occurs through monthly webinars and live broadcasts from the Inner Space Center (ISC) at URI. MaTTS doubles the number of direct contact hours found to tip the scales toward improved practice in traditional teacher PD. The teacher professional development contains ocean science and technology training to prepare them for working with student leaders during an intensive summer institute. Twenty-four high school student leaders join each year's teacher cohort, two students from each of the participating teachers' schools. The teacher/student teams are in residence at the ISC, where they will build, calibrate, and deploy sensor-based instruments; participate in field exercises and collect and analyze data; and meet with ocean scientists, engineers, and technicians from academia and industry. The project engages the teams over a 14 month period.The project cultivates innovative thinking among its student participants by exposing them to marine technologies that allow scientists to reach the extremes of the deep sea environment and collect near shore data that helps us to better manage coastal resources and monitorconditions that affect every day life. Students and teachers gain new skills as they stand watches in the ISC during ocean research explorations that expose them to open-ended, real-world problem solving. They interact with ocean scientists and engineers, both on the ground and at sea. Teacher leaders mentor colleagues at their school. They share content and marine technology, its applications, and associated classroom activities. They also develop plans for integrating more technology into their classes. The teacher teams keep an electronic mentoring journal on the project's website, which allows for sharing activities and results. The student leaders assist their teachers in introducing new marine technologies to their classmates and conduct activities with middle school students in their district.