Teachers and Researchers Advancing Integrated Lessons in STEM (TRAILS)

教师和研究人员推进 STEM 综合课程 (TRAILS)

• 批准号: 1513248
• 负责人: Todd Kelley
• 金额: $ 96.42万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-02-01 至 2021-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1513248&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Teachers; Researchers; Advancing; Integrated; Lessons

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.

该项目将通过学生和教师的创新技术体验计划，推动更好地理解和促进提高学生在科学，技术，工程或数学（STEM）领域追求职业生涯的动机和能力的做法。它将解决帮助教师培养更多学生在STEM领域出类拔萃的长期需求。 该项目将通过综合科学教学来满足这一需求，这将帮助学生将学习与现实世界联系起来，研究表明这将有助于提高他们对STEM职业的兴趣，动机和坚持。该项目将：（1）让在职科技教师参与专业发展，建立STEM知识和实践，以加强综合STEM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）让学生通过工程设计和3D打印和扫描技术进行STEM学习;以及（4）制定策略，以克服农村学校学生和服务不足人群在STEM领域追求职业生涯的障碍。该项目将使用真实世界的范例作为整合昆虫学和工程设计的基础，以调查21世纪技能的发展（创造力，批判性思维，协作，沟通和计算思维）在STEM教师和学生。为了使教师做好迎接这一挑战的准备，专业发展将以实践社区模式为基础，其中包括培训、课程修改和调整以及关于综合教学的课程规划。该项目将研究这些努力对学生设计，测试和开发产品和工件的能力的影响，以帮助他们与他们生活的世界建立现实联系。由于农村社区的学生几乎没有榜样，来自普渡大学和常春藤科技社区学院的STEM教师及其研究生和本科生，沿着当地社区利益相关者和商界领袖，将与45名高中教师和2000多名学生在设计和发现学习的真实学习环境中合作。这种方法将为来自印第安纳州农村地区21所学校的教师和学生提供机会，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。这项研究的结果将为理论提供可靠的方法，以减少农村地区学生的障碍，这些障碍继续阻碍他们获得有效促进21世纪知识和技能的教学。 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机。