Expanding Geospatial Technology Career Development for High School Students Through Teacher Professional Development

数据的力量（POD）项目旨在提高中学生对使用地理空间技术（GST）和数据的职业的认识和兴趣;增加他们对进入这些职业的教育途径的了解;并发展他们的21世纪世纪劳动力技能。在亚利桑那州成功实施的基础上，这个为期4年的项目将在更大规模上实施。 该项目将采用培训培训员的办法，约有30名师范教育工作者、90名教师和27 000名学生参加。教师教育工作者将得到促进学院、资源和教师教育工作者“生活”促进指南的支持。将被开发。这些资源将使教师教育者能够在当地复制POD教师讲习班，从而在课堂和校外活动中实现GST和基于项目的教学（PBI）。通过与项目相关的活动，学生将有机会承担地理空间角色，并与利益相关者并肩工作，因为他们通过空间透镜检查社区问题，分析围绕真实问题的数据，以确定适当的解决方案。 该项目将研究项目的实施，以及项目的哪些元素有助于增加学生对GST职业，相关职业途径和21世纪世纪技能的认识和认识。 该项目将推动学生和教师创新技术体验（ITEST）计划的努力，以更好地理解和促进提高学生在科学、技术、工程或数学（STEM）领域从事职业的动机和能力的做法。POD项目将针对传统上服务不足的人口的城市和农村环境，估计将涉及30名教师教育工作者，675名教师和27 000名学生接受了教师教育者的培训。项目研究将调查有助于项目成果的关键因素。POD团队将研究教师教育工作者实施的各个层面，并调查该项目如何有助于学生STEM职业意识和兴趣的发展。POD促进指南，包括共同教师经验的案例研究，学生工作样本，视频教学案例和与当地行业联系的方式，将通过按需印刷或电子方式在线提供。将通过会议介绍和期刊文章分享研究和评价结果及工具。

The Power of Data (POD) project is designed to increase secondary student awareness of and interest in careers that use geospatial technology (GST) and data; increase their knowledge of educational pathways to enter these careers; and develop their 21st century workforce skills. Building on successful implementation in Arizona, the 4-year project will be carried out on a larger scale. The project will use a train-the-trainer approach involving some 30 teacher educators, 90 teachers and 27,000 students. Teacher educators will be supported a facilitation academy, resources, and a "living" facilitation guide for teacher educators. will be developed. These resources will enable teacher educators replicate the POD Teacher Workshops in their local areas, resulting in the GST and project-based instruction (PBI) in their classrooms and in out of school activities. Through project-related activities, students will have opportunities to assume geospatial roles and work side by side with stakeholders as they examine community issues through a spatial lens, analyzing data surrounding authentic problems to determine appropriate solutions. The project will research project implementation and what project elements contribute to increase in student knowledge and awareness of GST careers, related career pathways, and 21st century skills. This project will advance efforts of the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to better understand and promote practices that increase students' motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM).The POD project will target both urban and rural settings with traditionally underserved populations and will involve an estimated 30 teacher educators, 675 additional teachers trained by the teacher-educators, and 27,000 students. Project research will investigate key elements that contribute to project outcomes. The POD team will research each level of implementation from teacher educators and investigate how the project contributes to the development of student STEM career awareness and interest. The POD facilitation guide, including case studies of common teacher experiences, student work samples, video teaching cases and ways to connect to local industry, will be available online via print on demand or electronically. Research and evaluation results and instruments will be shared through conference presentations and journal articles.