GLOBE Program Online Teacher Professional Development Conference

该奖项将用于召开一个关于STEM教育工作者专业发展的专家研讨会，使用在线和混合交付方法及其在全球学习和观察有益于环境（地球仪）计划中的潜在应用。 地球仪是一个国际科学和科学教育计划，由NASA和NSF共同管理，让教育工作者和学生收集超过55种不同环境参数的协议驱动数据，并将这些观测结果贡献给全球数据库。110多个国家的中小学生参加了该计划。该研讨会将确定有关有效的在线和混合专业发展模式的知识现状，这些模式最有可能被地球仪计划使用。切换到一个主要是在线格式培训教师在地球仪-目前通过面对面的讲习班-将使地球仪继续增长，在一个更具成本效益的方式。 研讨会还将确定一系列重要的教育研究问题，这些问题可以利用庞大而多样化的地球仪社区作为研究平台。 这些问题包括有效的在线专业发展如何与学生在STEM方面的成就联系起来，可能影响教育者专业发展有效性的文化因素，以及如何扩大有效的专业发展实践。“地球仪计划在线教师专业发展会议”将于2014年9月初在NSF总部召开。它将汇集20名在STEM教育专业发展，在线学习和地球仪计划方面具有专业知识的参与者。 本次研讨会的主要成果将是一份报告，确定为地球仪计划教育工作者使用在线和混合培训的最合适和最佳策略，以及一个初步的教育研究议程，该议程可能利用参与地球仪活动的广泛和文化多样的社区提供的无与伦比的机会。

This award is being used to convene an expert workshop on STEM educator professional development using online and blended delivery methods and their potential application within the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program. GLOBE is an international science and science education program, jointly managed by NASA and NSF, that engages educators and students in collecting protocol-driven data on more than 55 different environmental parameters and contributing those observations to a global database. Elementary and secondary students in more than 110 countries participate in the program. The workshop will identify the current state of knowledge regarding effective online and blended professional development models that have the greatest potential to be used by the GLOBE program. Switching to a mostly online format for training teachers in the GLOBE protocols - currently done through face-to-face workshops - will allow the GLOBE program to continue growing in a more cost effective way. The workshop will also identify a set of important education research questions that can leverage the large and diverse GLOBE community as a research platform. These include issues such as how effective online professional development links to student achievement in STEM, cultural factors that may influence the effectiveness of educator professional development, and how to scale-up effective professional development practices.The "GLOBE Program Online Teacher Professional Development Conference" is being convened at NSF headquarters in early September 2014. It will bring together 20 participants with expertise in STEM educator professional development, online learning, and the GLOBE program. The main deliverable of this workshop will be a report identifying the most appropriate and best strategies for using online and blended training for GLOBE program educators and a preliminary education research agenda that might leverage the unparalleled opportunities offered by the extensive and culturally diverse community that engages in GLOBE activities.