Collaborative Research: Opening the Pathway to Technician Careers: A Conference for Biology Teachers of Deaf Students

合作研究：开辟技术员职业之路：聋哑学生生物教师会议

• 批准号: 1834913
• 负责人: Kristin Jenkins
• 金额: $ 6.88万
• 依托单位: BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium, Inc
• 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 2020-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1834913&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Opening; Pathway; Technician

This professional development conference, "Opening the Pathway to Technician Careers: A Conference for Biology Teachers of Deaf Students" will address the compelling need for a diverse workforce in the United States by specifically targeting the educational needs of a group of students with unique learning and communication characteristics. The conference will bring together high school teachers, community college biology faculty, and American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters to improve biology education for deaf and hard-of-hearing (deaf/hh) students. Through a focus on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles and literacy-building case-based learning pedagogy, the conference will improve learning not only for deaf/hh students but for all students in the biology classroom. Biology courses impact large numbers of students because high school or introductory college biology courses are often the only exposure of non-science majors to science. In technician education, biology serves as a gateway course for students interested in technical fields such as agricultural technology, biotechnology, and environmental sciences, where the deaf/hh population is underrepresented.This conference will provide participants with: 1)Education in the use of case-based pedagogies and their potential for enhancing literacy and world knowledge for students within the context of learning biology; 2) Multiple ways to implement principles of UDL in biology classrooms; 3) Best practices for teaching biology to deaf/hh students; 4)Information about technician careers requiring a biology foundation; 5) A community of biology instructors of students who are deaf/hh; and 6) A stronger biology content knowledge. The projected outcomes of this conference include the collection and dissemination of best practices for teaching biology to deaf/hh students using UDL principles, case-based pedagogies, and literacy improvement practices. The conference design will support sharing effective educational resources within and beyond the conference community, continued collaboration of participants, and promoting connections to the broader community of biology educators. Findings from the conference will be presented in a white paper so that best practices and the needs of the deaf/hh community with regards to biology education will be more broadly understood.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.

这次专业发展会议是“通往技术人员职业的途径：聋哑学生的生物学教师会议”将通过专门针对具有独特学习和沟通特征的一群学生的教育需求来满足美国对多样化劳动力的迫切需求。会议将汇集高中教师，社区大学生物学教师和美国手语（ASL）口译员，以改善聋哑和听力障碍（聋/HH）学生的生物学教育。通过关注通用学习（UDL）原理和基于扫盲的学习教学教学法，会议不仅可以改善聋/HH学生的学习，而且还可以改善生物学课堂上的所有学生。生物学课程会影响大量学生，因为高中或入门大学生物学课程通常是非科学专业的唯一接触科学。在技​​术人员教育方面，生物学为对技术领域感兴趣的学生提供了门户课程，例如农业技术，生物技术和环境科学，聋人/HH人口的代表性不足。这次会议将为参与者提供：1）：1）教育基于病例的教育及其在基于案例的教育的使用及其潜在的生物学界面知识和世界知识学的潜在知识，以增强生物学的知识和世界知识的学习能力。 2）在生物学教室中实施UDL原理的多种方法； 3）向聋/HH学生讲授生物学的最佳实践； 4）有关需要生物学基础的技术人员职业的信息； 5）聋/HH学生的生物学讲师社区； 6）更强的生物学内容知识。 这次会议的预计结果包括使用UDL原则，基于案例的教学法和识字改进实践的聋哑学生教授生物学的最佳实践。会议设计将支持共享会议社区内外有效的教育资源，参与者的继续合作，并促进与更广泛的生物学教育者社区的联系。会议的调查结果将在白皮书中提出，以便将更广泛地理解聋/HH社区对生物学教育的最佳实践和需求。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准通过评估来通过评估来支持的。