RET Site: Joule Fellows: Sustainable Energy for an Inclusive Society

康涅狄格大学的这一更新RET网站名为焦耳研究员：包容性社会的可持续能源，使K-14教师，“焦耳研究员”，通过可持续能源（SE）技术的研究亲身体验创新，并提供丰富的专业发展经验，以促进研究经验有效地转化为课堂。该计划的组成部分包括为期六周的暑期体验，包括：深入的实验室研究;实验室图尔斯，演示和能源设施参观;研讨会和研讨会与行业专注于SE实践;专业发展研讨会专注于促进课堂的包容性和多样性;以及可以与其他教育工作者分享的实验室单元的准备。暑期课程之后是研究员和研究顾问之间的学年参与，以促进他们在夏季合作开发的课程计划的教学。焦耳研究员计划授权K-14教师有效地吸引学生对STEM感兴趣，并鼓励学生攻读STEM领域的学士学位。来自少数民族服务区的教师的目标是促进STEM教育的多样性和获得STEM教育的机会。该计划在学校，地区和国家的教师之间建立关系，以促进信息和课程计划的分发，从而将该计划推广到参与者之外。焦耳研究员计划直接有助于国家优先考虑强大，多样化的STEM教育，使学生能够应对我们社会面临的可持续能源的复杂挑战。该计划建立在UConn Engineering成功的当前和以前的NSF RET项目的基础上。拟议的RET网站为教师提供了一个强大的，全面的夏季研究和专业发展经验，包括关键可持续能源技术的研究，使教师接触可持续能源的工业实践，并提供研讨会，向教师介绍教育研究和实践，促进课堂上的包容性和多样性。在这方面，多样性不仅包括学生的种族、民族和社会经济状况，还包括影响学生参与课堂活动和学习的独特学习特征，即神经多样性。教师将接触到在康州大学的开创性研究，调查ADHD学生带来的机遇和挑战，他们往往表现出非凡的创造潜力，但在很大程度上是由目前的教育系统，特别是在干领域服务不足。 SE研究，包容性课堂策略和行业观点的结合为教师提供了一个有效的工具包，以激励学生追求高等教育和STEM职业。

This renewal RET Site at the University of Connecticut entitled Joule Fellows: Sustainable Energy for an Inclusive Society, enables K-14 teachers, the "Joule Fellows", to experience innovation first hand through research in Sustainable Energy (SE) technologies and provides a rich professional development experience to facilitate effective translation of the research experience to the classroom. The program components comprise a six-week summer experience including: in-depth laboratory research; laboratory tours, demonstrations, and energy facility visits; seminars and workshops with industry focusing on SE practice; professional development workshops focusing on fostering inclusivity and diversity in the classroom; and preparation of laboratory units that can be shared with other educators. The summer program is followed by academic year engagement between fellows and research advisors to facilitate teaching of lesson plans that they developed collaboratively over the summer. The Joule Fellows program empowers K-14 teachers to effectively engage and interest students in STEM and to encourage students to pursue BS degrees in STEM fields. Teachers from minority-serving districts are targeted to promote diversity in and access to STEM education. The program establishes relationships among teachers across schools, districts, and the state to promote distribution of information and lesson plans, thereby promoting the program beyond the cohort of participants. The Joule Fellows program directly contributes to national priorities for strong, diverse STEM education that prepares students to meet the complex challenges in sustainable energy confronting our society. This program builds on UConn Engineering's successful current and prior NSF RET projects.The proposed RET Site provides a powerful, holistic summer research and professional development experience for teachers that incorporates research in critical sustainable energy technologies, exposes teachers to industrial practice in sustainable energy, and offers workshops that introduce teachers to education research and practices that promote inclusivity and diversity in the classroom. Diversity in this context encompasses not only students' racial, ethnic, and socio-economic profiles, but also unique learning characteristics, i.e. neurodiversity, that affect students' participation in classroom activities and learning. Teachers will be exposed to groundbreaking research at UConn that investigates the opportunities and challenges posed by students with ADHD, who often present exceptional creative potential, but are largely underserved by the current educational system, particularly in STEM fields. The combination of SE research, inclusive classroom strategies, and industry perspectives provides teachers with an effective toolkit to inspire students to pursue higher education and careers in STEM.