FMCC TECH-Lane NSF ATE Project

创造职业和技术教育途径来发展我们的中等技能劳动力，需要在初中和高中阶段采取创造性的战略。Tech-Lane项目正在扩大STEM学生的渠道，通过招募和帮助有动力但代表性不足的高中生、高危八年级学生和大学早期高中生。该项目加快了学生从高中到大学，并进入半导体/纳米技术工作场所的速度。利用教育机构(高中、两年制和四年制大学)与区域高科技行业之间的合作伙伴关系，Tech-Lane正在创建侧重于创新和变革性教学的课程，使用基于项目的学习(PBL)以及职业教育和技术教育的整合。正在开发可复制的电子技术大学早期高中课程，为8年级学生开设的为期一周的夏季STEM夏令营课程，以及为高中STEM教师举办的设计、交付和纳入PBL的专业发展讲习班。该项目的学术价值在于对国家重要领域的劳动力准备产生了集中影响。美国各地正在建立技术型大学预科高中，以满足全国对训练有素的高科技劳动力的需求。基于项目的学习模式已被证明在复制真实世界的工作场所问题和教会学生批判性和创造性地思考解决这些问题方面非常有效。Tech-Lane正在与这些倡议保持一致，为学生提供加速途径，并为他们的高中STEM教师提供PBL培训。Tech-Lane课程通过一本详细的专著和一个项目网站广泛传播，允许全国的大学预科高中/社区大学社区复制这种模式，帮助满足为21世纪工作场所准备的高科技工人的需求。传播努力和复制拟议方案的能力是更广泛的重大影响之一。

Creating career and technical education pathways to develop our middle skills workforce requires creative strategies in the middle and high school years. The TECH-Lane project is expanding the STEM student pipeline by recruiting and assisting motivated but underrepresented, at-risk 8th grade and early college high school students. The project accelerates students from high school, through college and into the semiconductor/nanotechnology workplace. Using partnerships between educational institutions (high school, 2-year and 4-year colleges) and regional high technology industries, TECH-Lane is creating curriculum focused on innovative and transformative instruction using project-based learning (PBL) and integration of career and technical education. Replicable, accelerated early college high school courses in Electrical Technology, a one week summer STEM camp curriculum for 8th grade students and professional development workshops for high school STEM faculty in the design, delivery and incorporation of PBL are being developed. The intellectual merit of the project lies in the focused impact on workforce preparation in an area of national importance. Technical early college high schools are being established across the U.S. to answer the nationwide need for a well-trained high technology workforce. Project based learning models have been shown to be highly effective in replicating real-world workplace problems and teaching students to think critically and creatively to solve them. TECH-Lane is aligning with these initiatives by providing accelerated pathways for students and PBL training for their high school STEM teachers. The TECH-Lane curriculum, disseminated widely through a detailed monograph and a project website, allows the early college high school/community college community across the nation to duplicate this model and assist in filling the need for high-tech workers ready for the 21st century workplace. Dissemination efforts and the ability to replicate the proposed program are among the significant broader impacts.