TILE: Transform, Interact, Learn, and Engage for success in STEM education

该项目正在为一所大型公立研究型大学的全学院教学实践转型做准备。它正在继续扩大已经开始的进程，围绕一项名为TILE（为STEM教育的成功而转变、互动、学习和参与）的核心倡议建立基础设施。TILE要求教师实施者投资于专业发展，大学投资于技术丰富的教室。在物理和其他物理科学学科中使用的SCALE-UP教室经过改造后，TILE教室被证明是有效的学习环境，如果与适当的教学法相结合。SCALE-UP（本科生以学生为中心的主动学习环境）是一种成熟的、经过验证的基于证据的教育方法，它将学生分成小组，围坐在圆桌旁，让他们积极地构建知识。使用计算机，他们从互联网上提取信息，用于主动解决问题。在SCALE-UP中，获取学科内容的任务被转移到互联网上，解决难题的过程在课堂上以小组形式进行，学生们在专家导师的指导下相互帮助。这种模式目前在100多所高等教育机构中使用。适当的教学方法是由教师通过大学的专业发展计划来学习的，该计划已经由教学中心和信息技术服务办公室设计和实施。TILE得到了许多教职员工和管理人员的支持，但转型过程仍处于早期阶段。与所有大型研究型大学一样，这个机构可能会遇到一些可能的障碍和问题。该项目的主要目标是预测和准备这些挑战，并创建一个克服这些挑战的过程。该项目的目标是：*评估促进和维持STEM部门创新教学实践的组织环境*创建一个领导力研究所，为学院和部门领导提供基于证据的实践，以支持部门和项目层面的教学和学习。*创建一个流程，在STEM课程中迭代地增加基于证据的科学教学实践的使用，特别是在通识教育和STEM入门课程中。在迭代过程中增加循证教学的计划中包括一套评估工具，这些工具将衡量改进的教学和学习实践对学生的好处。

This project is preparing for institution-wide transformation of teaching and learning practices at a large public research university. It is continuing to expand a process that has already begun, building infrastructure around a core initiative called TILE (Transform, Interact, Learn, and Engage for success in STEM education). TILE requires faculty implementers to invest in professional development and the University to invest in technology-rich classrooms. TILE classrooms are remodeled after the SCALE-UP classrooms used in physics and other disciplines in the physical sciences that have been proven to be effective learning environments when paired with appropriate pedagogy. SCALE-UP (Student-Centered Active Learning Environment for Undergraduate Programs) is a mature, proven evidence-based method of education that puts students in small groups around circular tables and engages them in active construction of knowledge. Using computers, they pull information from the Internet to use in active solving problems. In SCALE-UP the task of getting disciplinary content is shifted to the internet and the process of solving difficult problems occurs in small groups during class time, where students help one another and are guided by expert instructors. This model is currently in use in more than 100 institutions of higher education. Appropriate pedagogy is learned by faculty instructors through a professional development program at the university that has already been designed and implemented by the Center for Teaching and the Office of Information Technology Services. TILE has the support of a number of faculty members and administrators, but the process of transformation is still in its early stages. There are a number of possible barriers and issues that are likely to be encountered in this institution as in all large research universities. The main goals of this project are to anticipate and prepare for those challenges and create a process for overcoming them. The goals of this project are:* Assess the organizational climate for promoting and sustaining innovative teaching and learning practices in STEM departments* Create a Leadership Institute to provide College and Department leadership with evidence-based practices for supporting teaching and learning at the department and program level.* Create a process to iteratively increase the use of evidence-based scientific teaching and learning practices in STEM classes, particularly in general education and introductory STEM courses. Included in the plan to increase evidence-based teaching in an iterative process is a set of assessment tools that will measure the benefits for students derived from improved teaching and learning practices.