Teachers and Researchers Advancing Integrated Lessons in STEM (TRAILS)

该项目将通过学生和教师创新技术体验计划，推动更好地理解和促进实践，提高学生在科学、技术、工程或数学(STEM)领域追求职业生涯的动机和能力。它将解决帮助教师为更多学生在STEM领域出类拔萃做好准备的长期需要。该项目将通过综合科学教学来满足这一需求，该教学将帮助学生将学习与现实世界的背景联系起来，研究表明，这将有助于提高他们对STEM职业的兴趣、动力和毅力。该项目将：(1)让在职科学和技术教师参与专业发展，建立STEM知识和实践，以加强STEM综合教学；(2)建立STEM教师、研究人员、行业合作伙伴和大学生导师的可持续实践社区；(3)通过工程设计和3D打印和扫描技术，让学生参与STEM学习；以及(4)制定战略，为农村学校的学生和服务不足的人群在STEM领域寻求职业生涯克服障碍。该项目将使用真实世界的样本作为整合昆虫学和工程设计的基础，以调查教师和学生在STEM中21世纪技能(创造力、批判性思维、协作、沟通和计算思维)的发展。为使教师做好迎接这一挑战的准备，专业发展将建立在实践社区模式的基础上，其中包括培训、课程修改和适应以及关于综合教学的课程规划。该项目将考察这些努力对学生设计、测试和开发产品和文物的能力的影响，以帮助他们与自己生活的世界建立现实生活中的联系。由于农村社区的学生几乎没有榜样，STEM教师和他们来自普渡大学和常春藤科技社区学院的研究生和本科生，以及当地社区利益相关者和商界领袖，将在设计和发现学习的真实学习环境中与45名高中教师和2000多名学生合作。这种方法将使来自印第安纳州农村地区21所学校的教师和学生能够通过技术丰富的途径、面对面的互动和后续的课堂支持，接触STEM学科的专家。这项研究的发现将为理论提供理论依据，以减少农村地区学生的障碍，这些障碍继续阻碍他们获得被证明在促进21世纪知识和技能方面有效的教育。这项研究的结果也将有助于提高学生对STEM领域职业的兴趣和动力。

This project will advance efforts to better understand and promote practices that increase students' motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) through the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers program. It will address the long-term need to help teachers prepare more students to excel in STEM fields. The project will meet this need through integrated science instruction that will help students to link learning to the real-world context, which research shows will help increase their interest, motivation, and persistence in STEM careers. The project will: (1) engage in-service science and technology teachers in professional development to build STEM knowledge and practices to enhance integrated STEM instruction; (2) establish a sustainable community of practice of STEM teachers, researchers, industry partners, and college student mentors; (3) engage students in STEM learning through engineering design and 3D printing and scanning technology; and (4) generate strategies to overcome barriers for students in rural schools and underserved populations to pursue careers in STEM fields.The project will use real-world exemplars as the foundation for integrating entomology and engineering design to investigate the development of 21st skills (creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and computational thinking) in STEM for teachers and students. To prepare teachers for this challenge, professional development will be based on a community of practice model that involves training, curriculum modification and adaptation, and lesson planning on integrated instruction. The project will examine the influence of these efforts on students' ability to design, test, and develop products and artifacts to help them make real-life connections to the world in which they live. Because students in rural communities have few role models, STEM faculty and their graduate and undergraduate students from Purdue University and Ivy Tech Community College, along with local community stakeholders and business leaders, will team with 45 high school teachers and more than 2000 students in an authentic learning context of design and discovery learning. This approach will afford teachers and students from 21 schools in rural Indiana with access to experts from STEM disciplines through technology-rich pathways, face-to-face interactions, and follow-up in-class support. The findings from this study will inform theory about authentic ways to reduce barriers for students in rural areas that continue to hinder their access to instruction shown to be effective in advancing 21st knowledge and skills. Results from this study will also help increase students' interest in and motivation for careers in STEM fields.