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.

部落学院和大学计划 (TCUP) 的目标是提高为国家土著学生服务的特定高等教育机构的 STEM 教学和研究能力。这些机构扩大 STEM 课程设置，可以扩大学生在 STEM 领域追求具有挑战性、回报丰厚的职业的机会，提供可能具有文化意义的领域的研究，并鼓励社区和世代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机构的师资队伍，这样他们也将能够支持学生的需求。此外，蒙大拿大学希望通过试点研讨会与蒙大拿州部落学院建立合作关系，为部落学生在密歇根大学进行研究提供更多机会。蒙大拿大学将为蒙大拿州部落学院教师举办试点专业发展研讨会，并在蒙大拿州的七所部落学院和密歇根大学之间建立合作伙伴关系。为了满足蒙大拿州部落学院 (TC) 教师对专业发展的要求，蒙大拿州部落学院教师专业发展研讨会将在 UM 校园内接待部落学院教师，以调查创新的教学和研究实践，同时在 TC 教师和 UM 教师导师之间建立合作网络。该研讨会将把 TC 教职人员分成研究小组，每个研究小组与一名 UM 教职人员合作。这些小组将调查适合 TC 校园实验室基础设施、学生的需求以及 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 教师可以相互学习，也可以与 UM 教师合作伙伴进行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所部落学院的访问。 TC 教师一致描述了研究实践的局限性，这在很大程度上是其教学需求所固有的。通常，TC 教师表示每学期教授大量课程的局限性导致他们没有时间将新的和新颖的课程开发和研究融入课堂。时间限制也限制了他们与其他 TC 校区的合作者和 TC 教员的交流。