Preparing Future Faculty to Improve STEM Education: Broadening the National Impact of the CIRTL Network

研究，教学和学习（CIRTL）的整合中心有助于通过未来的STEM教师的有目的的发展在STEM本科教育的长期改善。CIRTL塑造未来国家STEM教师的战略杠杆点是教学和学习的研究生和博士后准备。CIRTL提供系统和集中的专业发展，以建立未来的教师专业知识，以证据为基础的教学。三个核心理念-教学即研究、学习社区和通过多样性学习-以及一套详细的相关学习成果为CIRTL的所有活动提供了概念框架。研究已经证实了这种方法的有效性。特别是，有经验证据表明，基于这些想法的教学专业发展产生了积极的长期影响。2016年夏天，CIRTL网络扩展到美国40多所研究型大学，比之前的CIRTL机构数量增加了一倍。该项目由一系列综合举措组成，旨在增加未来教师专业发展在教学中的影响和广泛部署。这些举措在两个战略方向上发挥作用：1.增加每个CIRTL网络大学未来教师的数量;2.为了增加CIRTL网络内未来教师参与者的数量，CIRTL将开发和评估一套新的基于群组的学习社区：i）化学，工程，生命科学和统计学的学科学习社区; ii）教学助理学习社区; iii）博士后学习社区。这些将在本地和在线运行。为了将机会扩展到CIRTL网络之外的未来教师，CIRTL将开发和评估：i）在线NSF研究生研究员学习社区; ii）与八个专业协会建立未来教师发展的伙伴关系。CIRTL还将通过开发和评估CIRTL校友网络，为其校友建立新的桥梁，为CIRTL的使命做出贡献。这些新举措的长期目标是每年在CIRTL网络中培养8，000多名STEM未来教师，并将机会扩展到网络之外。

The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) contributes to long-term improvement in STEM undergraduate education through the purposeful development of the future STEM faculty. The strategic leverage point by which CIRTL shapes the future national STEM faculty is graduate and postdoctoral preparation in teaching and learning. CIRTL provides systematic and focused professional development to build future faculty expertise in evidence-based teaching. Three core ideas - teaching-as-research, learning communities, and learning through diversity - and a detailed set of associated learning outcomes provide the conceptual framework for all CIRTL activities. Research has established the efficacy of this approach. In particular, there is empirical evidence of the positive long-term impact of teaching professional development based on these ideas. In Summer 2016 the CIRTL Network expanded to more than 40 research universities in the United States - a doubling of the earlier number of CIRTL institutions. This project is comprised of an integrated portfolio of initiatives for increased impact and widespread deployment of future faculty professional development in teaching. The initiatives work in two strategic directions:1. increase the number of future faculty participating at each CIRTL Network university;2. extend CIRTL opportunities to future faculty beyond the CIRTL Network.To increase the number of future faculty participants within the CIRTL Network, CIRTL will develop and evaluate a set of new cohort-based learning communities: i) disciplinary learning communities in chemistry, engineering, life sciences and statistics; ii) teaching assistant learning communities; and iii) postdoctoral learning communities. These will operate both locally and online. To extend opportunities to future faculty beyond the CIRTL Network, CIRTL will develop and evaluate: i) an online NSF Graduate Research Fellow learning community; and ii) partnerships in future faculty development with eight professional societies. CIRTL will also build new bridges for its alumni to contribute to the CIRTL mission by developing and evaluating a CIRTL Alumni Network. These new initiatives have the long-term goal of preparing more than 8,000 STEM future faculty annually in the CIRTL Network, and to extend opportunities to many more beyond the Network.