Northeast Washington Geospatial Technician Education Project

华盛顿东北部地理空间技术员教育项目

• 批准号: 1800981
• 负责人: Marilyn Nielson
• 金额: $ 22.49万
• 依托单位: Spokane Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1800981&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Northeast; Washington; Geospatial; Technician; Education

Rural Washington has a strong demand for environmental and natural resource technicians with knowledge and skills in geospatial tools, data, and analysis. However, rural schools have challenges in meeting performance benchmarks in STEM disciplines needed for geospatial careers, including technical careers in environmental and natural resources. The reasons for lower rural school STEM outcomes are complex. Cited factors for lower rural school performance in preparing students for STEM career pathways include a fewer number of experienced STEM teachers, fewer resources, and geographic isolation. This project explores the opportunity to better leverage community college resources to overcome barriers of geographic isolation. Specifically, the project aims to expand the number of rural high school teachers with training in geospatial applications that are relevant to the region. In addition, it aims to increase dual-credit (high-school and college) geospatial courses offered in rural communities. This project will deliver geospatial professional development training to twelve high school teachers from four isolated rural school districts, with the potential to involve two additional districts. Three instructors from Spokane Community College who teach college-level courses in rural northeast Washington communities will join high school teachers as learners receiving professional development training, with the intent to expand the college's capacity to teach dual-credit courses on geospatial topics directly in rural communities. Over the course of the project, the PI and Co-PIs will deliver two 3-day workshops at one of five Spokane Community College rural (satellite) campus facilities. The participating high school teachers and rural college instructors will also receive additional resources to support independent exploration of geospatial tools, data, and applications for integration into their classroom teaching. These additional resources include the creation of locally relevant standards-mapped GIS learning activities for high school classrooms. Rural communities and industries can benefit from an expanded number of students who pursue STEM career pathways that prepare them for meaningful local job opportunities and support local workforce needs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

华盛顿农村地区对具备地理空间工具、数据和分析方面知识和技能的环境和自然资源技术人员有着强烈的需求。 然而，农村学校在满足地理空间职业所需的STEM学科的绩效基准方面面临挑战，包括环境和自然资源方面的技术职业。农村学校STEM成果较低的原因是复杂的。在为学生的STEM职业道路做准备方面，农村学校表现较低的因素包括经验丰富的STEM教师数量较少，资源较少和地理隔离。该项目探讨了更好地利用社区学院资源克服地理隔离障碍的机会。 具体而言，该项目旨在增加接受与该区域有关的地理空间应用培训的农村高中教师人数。 此外，它还旨在增加在农村社区提供的双学分（高中和大学）地理空间课程。该项目将为来自四个偏远农村学区的12名高中教师提供地理空间专业发展培训，并有可能涉及另外两个地区。来自斯波坎社区学院的三名教师在华盛顿东北部的农村社区教授大学课程，他们将加入高中教师的行列，作为接受专业发展培训的学习者，目的是扩大学院直接在农村社区教授地理空间主题双学分课程的能力。在该项目的过程中，PI和Co-PI将在五个斯波坎社区学院农村（卫星）校园设施之一提供两个为期3天的研讨会。参与的高中教师和农村大学教师还将获得额外的资源，以支持地理空间工具，数据和应用程序的独立探索，以融入他们的课堂教学。这些额外的资源包括为高中教室创建与当地相关的标准映射GIS学习活动。农村社区和行业可以从更多追求STEM职业道路的学生中受益，这些学生为他们提供有意义的当地就业机会并支持当地劳动力需求做好准备。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估而被认为值得支持。