RET Site: Nanotechnology Research Experience for Teachers

该奖项为一个为期三年的标准奖提供资金，以支持赖斯大学在工程现场的教师研究经验(RET)项目的继续，该项目名为“RET站点：教师的纳米技术研究经验”，由Vicki Colvin博士和Carolyn Nicholer博士指导。该计划将有助于推动由美国国家科学基金会资助的莱斯大学纳米科学与工程中心(NSEC)开发的名为生物与环境纳米技术中心(CBEN)的教育项目，并将在过去成功的基础上继续改进，继续追求该大学对教育推广和科学创新的承诺。为了完成这些任务，项目团队将把为德克萨斯州休斯敦的学生服务的科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)教师与莱斯大学杰出的纳米技术研究人员和设施联系起来。在这些教师将他们的研究经验转化为学生新颖而令人兴奋的活动时，莱斯团队将为他们提供课程、教学知识和教学支持，莱斯团队将使用“培训培训者”的方法，并提供一个大型STEM专业发展(PD)计划平台，允许总共36名RET“大师”教师(每年12名)向300多名教师传播RET计划成果，从而创建一个强大的知识型领导者网络，他们随后将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。由于纳米尺度的创新发展涉及生物、物理和化学，该计划将为教师提供关于基础科学的新见解，这些见解也与德克萨斯州的标准很好地结合在一起，并针对服务不足的教师和学校。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城市和历史上代表性不足的少数族裔学区。HISD是得克萨斯州最大的学区，其学生人口中88%是西班牙裔和非裔美国人。AISD的学生中有96%是西班牙裔和非裔美国人。自2006年以来，莱斯PD项目已经培训了来自34个学区的1200多名教师。这项可扩展的RET将在未来3年覆盖900名教师，影响约135,000名学生。此外，RET的成果将通过在莱斯举办的研讨会、国家会议广泛传播，并通过TeachEngineering数字图书馆、纳米科学学习与教学中心(NCLT)和莱斯卓越科学课程网站在网上广泛传播。

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.