RET Site: Nanotechnology Research Experience for Teachers

RET 网站：教师纳米技术研究经验

• 批准号: 1406885
• 负责人: Carolyn Nichol
• 金额: $ 49.35万
• 依托单位: William Marsh Rice University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-05-01 至 2018-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1406885&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RET; Site; Nanotechnology; Research; Experience

This award provides funding for a three year stardard award to support the continuation of a Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering Site program at Rice University, entitled, "RET Site: Nanotechnology Research Experience for Teachers", under the direction of Dr. Vicki Colvin and Dr. Carolyn Nichol. This program will help further the educational programs developed by Rice University's NSF funded Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC)entitled the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN) and will improve upon past success continuing to pursue the university's commitment to educational outreach and science innovation. To accomplish these tasks, the project team team will connect Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) teachers who serve students in Houston, Texas, with the outstanding nanotechnology research faculty and facilities at Rice. Providing curricular, content knowledge, and pedagogical support for these teachers as they translate their research experiences into novel and exciting activities for their students, the Rice team will use a "train the trainer" approach and offer a large platform of STEM Professional Development (PD) programs that allow a total of 36 RET "master" teachers (12 per year) to disseminate RET program outcomes to more than 300 teachers per year, thereby creating a robust network of knowledgeable leaders who will then instruct traditionally underserved students in the Houston area, fostering the STEM innovators of the future. Since the innovative developments at the nanoscale are integrated across biology, physics and chemistry, this program will provide teachers with new insights on basic science that is also well-aligned with Texas State standards and targets underserved teachers and schools. Rice will work closely with the Houston Independent School District (HISD) and the Aldine Independent School District (AISD), both urban and historically underrepresented minority school districts in South Texas. HISD is the largest school district in Texas and its student population is 88% Hispanic and African American. AISD's student population is 96% Hispanic and African American. The Rice PD programs have trained more than 1200 teachers from over 34 school districts since 2006. This scalable RET will reach 900 teachers over the next 3 years, impacting about 135,000 students. In addition, the outcomes of this RET will be broadly disseminated via symposiums at Rice, national meetings, and online via the TeachEngineering digital library, Nanoscience Center for Learning and Teaching (NCLT), and the Rice Excellence in Science Curriculum website.

该奖项提供资金为三年的标准奖，以支持研究经验的教师（RET）在工程现场程序在赖斯大学的延续，题为“RET网站：纳米技术研究经验的教师”，博士的指导下。该计划将进一步帮助莱斯大学的NSF资助的纳米科学与工程中心（NSEC）开发的教育计划，名为生物与环境纳米技术中心（CBEN），并将在过去的成功基础上继续提高追求大学对教育推广和科学创新的承诺。为了完成这些任务，该项目团队将连接科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教师谁在休斯敦，得克萨斯州的学生，在赖斯优秀的纳米技术研究教师和设施。为这些教师提供课程，内容知识和教学支持，因为他们将自己的研究经验转化为学生新颖而令人兴奋的活动，赖斯研究小组将采用“培训培训者”的方法，提供一个大型的STEM专业发展（PD）项目平台，总共允许36名RET“大师”教师（每年12个）每年向300多名教师传播RET计划成果，从而建立一个强大的知识领导者网络，然后指导休斯顿地区传统上服务不足的学生，培养未来的STEM创新者。由于纳米级的创新发展是跨生物学，物理学和化学集成，该计划将为教师提供基础科学的新见解，也与德克萨斯州的标准和目标服务不足的教师和学校保持一致。赖斯将与休斯顿独立学区（HISD）和奥尔丁独立学区（AISD）密切合作，这两个学区都是德克萨斯州南部的城市和历史上代表性不足的少数民族学区。HISD是德克萨斯州最大的学区，其学生人口88%是西班牙裔和非洲裔美国人。AISD的学生人口96%是西班牙裔和非洲裔美国人。自2006年以来，赖斯PD计划已经培训了来自34个学区的1200多名教师。这一可扩展的可再生能源技术将在未来3年内惠及900名教师，影响约135 000名学生。此外，该可再生能源技术的成果将通过在赖斯举行的研讨会、国家会议以及通过教学工程数字图书馆、纳米科学学习和教学中心（NCLT）和赖斯卓越科学课程网站在线广泛传播。