Montana Tribal College Faculty Professional Development Workshop

蒙大拿部落学院教师专业发展研讨会

• 批准号: 1505371
• 负责人: Aaron Thomas
• 金额: $ 4.94万
• 依托单位: University of Montana
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-03-01 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1505371&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Montana; Tribal; College; Faculty; Professional

A goal of the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) is to increase the STEM instructional and research capacities of specific institutions of higher education that serve the Nation's indigenous students. Expanding the STEM curricular offerings at these institutions expands the opportunities of their students to pursue challenging, rewarding careers in STEM fields, provides for research studies in areas that may be culturally significant, and encourages a community and generational appreciation for science and mathematics education. The focus of the proposal from the University of Montana (UM) is on developing faculty at Tribal instituions,so they too will be able to support the needs of their students. In addition, through a pilot workshop UM hopes to build collaborative efforts with the Montana tribal colleges,which could provide more opportunities for tribal students to do research at UM.The University of Montana will conduct a pilot professional development workshop for Montana tribal college faculty, and establish partnerships among the seven Montana tribal colleges and UM. Addressing a request of Montana tribal college (TC) faculty for professional development, the Montana Tribal College Faculty Professional Development Workshop will host tribal college faculty members on the UM campus to investigate innovative instructional and research practices while also building a collaboration network among the TC faculty and UM faculty mentors. The workshop will divide TC faculty into research groups each working with a UM faculty member. The groups will investigate laboratory research practices that are appropriate for the TC's campus laboratory infrastructures, the needs of their students, and the knowledge, skills, and abilities of the TC faculty members. The research group model will yield a faculty network, as TC faculty learn from each other and the UM faculty partners for future research discussions and collaborations. The justification and design of the workshop is based upon recent visits to each of Montana's tribal colleges. TC faculty consistently described limitations to research practices largely inherent to their teaching demands. Commonly, TC faculty expressed the limitation in instructing large numbers of classes each semester that lead to little time for incorporating new and novel curriculum development and research into their classrooms. The time restrictions also limit their networking with collaborators and fellow TC faculty on other TC campuses.

部落学院和大学方案的一个目标是提高为全国土著学生服务的特定高等教育机构的STEM教学和研究能力。扩大这些机构的STEM课程设置，扩大了学生在STEM领域追求具有挑战性和回报的职业的机会，为可能具有文化意义的领域提供了研究，并鼓励社区和一代人对科学和数学教育的欣赏。蒙大拿大学（UM）提案的重点是发展部落学院的教师，因此他们也将能够支持学生的需求。此外，通过一个试点研讨会，UM希望建立与蒙大拿州部落学院的合作努力，这可以提供更多的机会，为部落学生在UM做研究。蒙大拿大学将进行蒙大拿州部落学院教师的试点专业发展研讨会，并建立蒙大拿州七个部落学院和UM之间的伙伴关系。解决蒙大拿部落学院（TC）教师专业发展的要求，蒙大拿部落学院教师专业发展研讨会将主办UM校园部落学院教师调查创新的教学和研究实践，同时也建立TC教师和UM教师导师之间的合作网络。研讨会将TC教师分成研究小组，每个小组与UM教师合作。这些小组将调查适合TC校园实验室基础设施，学生需求以及TC教职员工的知识，技能和能力的实验室研究实践。研究小组模式将产生一个教师网络，TC教师相互学习和UM教师合作伙伴为未来的研究讨论和合作。研讨会的理由和设计是基于最近对蒙大拿州每个部落学院的访问。TC教师一致描述了研究实践的局限性，这主要是他们的教学需求所固有的。一般来说，TC教师表示，在指导大量的类，导致很少的时间将新的和新颖的课程开发和研究到他们的课堂上每学期的限制。时间限制也限制了他们与其他TC校园的合作者和TC教师的联系。