Training A New Generation Of Statistics Educators (TANGO Stat Ed)

该项目正在向全国社区学院系统中准备不足的统计教员伸出援手，向他们提供现代内容和使用循证教学方法教授统计知识的能力。社区学院的统计教师往往缺乏足够的资源或联系，无法利用不断增长的统计教育界所提供的一切。与此同时，统计数据日常使用的爆炸性增长给统计教育工作者带来了沉重的责任负担。 统计知识对于参与和积极的公民至关重要。统计界的领导人已确定，教育工作者是近期的一项关键需求。统计教育研究人员开发了理论基础和循证的教学实践，可以加强现在和未来的教师。该项目正在采取的办法是，将需要专业发展的72名社区学院教员与4个区域中心的12名已确立的统计教育工作者导师配对。 导师将帮助这些教师获得内容知识和在教学中使用当前最佳循证实践的能力。这些做法符合《统计教育评估和教学准则》。这些教员将每年参加两次由专家主持的讲习班，每月参加专业学习社区会议，导师将通过这些会议促进互动和同行学习，并将融入统计教育界。该项目还将通过美国统计教学会议、在线连接和会议，将这些社区学院教师纳入国家统计教育社区。该项目正在建立指导关系和专业学习社区计划。 该项目建立的区域中心和辅导关系将为社区学院教员提供持续的机会，使他们能够与致力于高质量统计教育的不断壮大的统计教育界进行互动。作为该项目的一部分，还将认真研究这种传播最佳做法的方法的有效性。该项目将审查这种方法是否可以成为未来区域和国家合作项目的基础。通过提供超出大多数社区学院能力的专业发展机会，该项目可能会影响未来多年的新教师和在职教师。它正在创造社会互动和结构，以维持这些努力超越赠款的时间框架。

This project is reaching out to under-prepared statistics instructors in the nation's community college system to provide them with modern content and the ability to teach it using evidence-based teaching methods. The statistics instructors in community colleges often lack sufficient resources or connections to take advantage of all that is offered by the growing statistics education community. At the same time, the explosive growth in everyday use of statistics places a great burden of responsibility on statistics educators. Statistical literacy is vital for engaged and active citizenship. Leaders in the statistical community have identified educating educators as a critical need for the near future. Statistics education researchers have developed theoretically grounded and evidence-based pedagogical practices that can strengthen present and future teachers. The approach being taken in this project is to pair 72 community college instructors in need of professional development with 12 established statistics educator mentors across 4 regional hubs. The mentors will help these instructors gain both content knowledge and the ability to use current best evidence-based practices in their teaching. These practices are consistent with the Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education. The instructors will participate in two expert-led workshops each year, will meet in monthly professional learning communities through which mentors will promote interaction and peer-learning, and will be integrated into the statistics education community. The project will also integrate these community college instructors into the national statistics education communities through the US Conference on Teaching Statistics, online connections, and conferences. The project is creating mentoring relationships and professional learning community programs. The regional hubs and mentoring relationships created by this project will provide ongoing opportunities for community college instructors to interact with the growing statistics education community that is dedicated to quality statistics education. The effectiveness of this approach to propagating best practices will also be carefully studied as part of the project. The project will examine whether this approach can become a foundation for future regional and national collaborative projects. By providing professional development opportunities beyond the abilities of most community colleges, this project could affect new and continuing faculty members for many years to come. It is creating both the social interactions and the structure needed to sustain these endeavors beyond the time frame of the grant.