Workshop on the Nature and Practices of Science to Support Educator Guides for *Science* in the Classroom

该项目将提供一个研讨会，将加强正在进行的“* 科学 * 在课堂上（SitC）”项目（NSF奖DUE-1043998，DUE-1224661和DUE-1525596）的影响。SitC正在开发一系列新的教育资源--来自《科学》杂志的研究文章的丰富注释版本--沿着帮助本科STEM教育工作者在课堂上有效使用这些资源的方法和指南。这种方法使用前沿研究来教授STEM概念，并激发学生对科学前沿的兴趣。通过研讨会，SitC项目团队将为教授科学的性质和实践奠定基础，在SitC资源的背景下，学院和大学教师，职前教师，研究生，博士后和其他STEM专业人员，研讨会将使SitC项目能够利用参与者的专业知识为SitC资源开发教育者指南。该研讨会将有三个主要好处：（1）参与者将学习如何开发高质量的教育工作者指南，重点是科学和科学实践的性质，这是一项对STEM教育有用的技能，但也可以转移到各种STEM职业中。(2)通过将在网上免费提供的新的教育工作者指南，讲习班将增加获得经教育专家审查的附加说明的主要文献资源的机会。(3)在教学环境中注重科学的性质和实践已被证明有助于提高基本的研究技能。因此，参加研讨会的人员可以提高自己的研究技能，成为更好的科学家。该项目将鼓励在STEM学科的教学实践中采用教育研究。这一采用将在两个层面进行。首先，本科STEM教育社区的成员将获得专业发展机会，利用初级文献教授科学的性质和实践。讲习班的圆满结束应能使人们更好地了解讲授科学的性质和实践的好处。最近的研究表明，当在植根于科学本质的探究式思维的背景下进行教学时，研究生和博士后加强了自己的学习，并由此成为更好的研究人员。因此，为本科STEM教育社区提供教授科学本质和实践的基础，也将提高参与者参与的研究培训和科学职业的质量。第二个层次的采用将来自参与者将作为研讨会的一部分制作的教育者指南。这些指南将伴随着SitC资源，并将通过网络免费提供给STEM教育工作者。

This project will offer a workshop that will enhance the impact of the ongoing "*Science* in the Classroom (SitC)" project (NSF Awards DUE-1043998, DUE-1224661, and DUE-1525596). SitC is developing a collection of new educational resources -- richly annotated versions of research articles from the journal *Science* -- along with methods and guides to help undergraduate STEM educators use these resources effectively in their classrooms. This approach uses leading-edge research both to teach STEM concepts and to excite students about the frontiers of science. Through the workshop, the SitC project team will provide a foundation for teaching the nature and practices of science, in the context of SitC resources, to college and university faculty, pre-service teachers, graduate students, postdocs, and other STEM professionals, and the workshop will allow the SitC project to leverage the expertise of the participants to develop educator guides for SitC resources. The workshop will have three primary benefits: (1) Participants will learn how to develop high-quality educator guides focusing on the nature of science and scientific practices, a skill that is useful for STEM education but is also transferable to a wide variety of STEM careers. (2) Through the new educator guides, which will be freely available on the Web, the workshop will increase the accessibility of annotated primary literature resources that have been vetted by educational experts. (3) Focusing on the nature and practices of science in a teaching context has been shown to contribute to the improvement of essential research skills. Therefore, participants in the workshop may improve their own research skills and become better scientists.The project will encourage adoption of education research in the practice of teaching in the STEM disciplines. This adoption will take place at two levels. First, members of the undergraduate STEM education community will be provided a professional development opportunity in using primary literature to teach the nature and practices of science. Successful completion of the workshop should result in greater understanding of the benefits of teaching the nature and practices of science. Recent research has shown that when teaching in the context of inquiry-based thinking rooted in the nature of science, graduate students and postdocs reinforced their own learning and, by extension, became better researchers. Therefore, providing the undergraduate STEM education community with a foundation for teaching the nature and practices of science will also improve the quality of the research training and science careers participants are involved in. The second level of adoption will result from the educator guides that participants will produce as part of the workshop. These guides will accompany SitC resources and will be freely available to STEM educators via the Web.