One Year After Science's Grand Challenges in Education: Professional Empowerment of STEM Teachers' Through Education Policy and Decision Making

继《科学》特刊(2013年8月)确定了科学教育中的几个重大挑战之后，该项目建议召开一次会议，更深入地探讨那些与K-12教师特别相关的挑战，并强调教师在改善K-12 STEM教育的关键问题上可以发挥的作用。会议将：(1)就教师参与教育政策和决策是否导致政策改进收集证据基础；(2)确定国家、州和地方各级现有的教师参与模式；(3)确定需要哪些类型的沟通努力、资源和其他活动，以帮助政策制定者更好地理解教师在这些过程中的作用。会议讨论了几个重要而及时的问题：(1)如何帮助教师在课堂之外参与重要的教育问题，以及(2)可以确定什么样的网络或机制来完成这一任务。会议结束后，将编制材料，这些材料将以硬拷贝和PDF文件的形式从国家科学院出版社获得。

Following up on a special issue of Science (August 2013) that identified several Grand Challenges in Science Education, this project proposes a convocation to more deeply explore those challenges that are particularly relevant for K-12 teachers and highlights the roles teachers can play on issues vital to the improvement of K-12 STEM education. The convocation will: (1) pull together the evidence base on whether involving teachers in education policy and decision-making leads to improvements in policies; (2) identify the models of teacher engagement at the national, state, and local levels that currently exist; and (3) identify the kinds of communication efforts, resources and other activities that are needed to help policymakers better understand the role of teachers in these processes. The convocation addresses several important and timely questions: (1) how to help teachers engage in important education issues beyond their classrooms, and (2) what kinds of networks or mechanisms might be identified to accomplish that engagement.Following the meeting, materials will be developed that will be available both in hard copy and as PDF files from the National Academies Press.