RET Site: Building Education

拟议的教师建筑教育研究经验（RET）网站将通过让教师参与建筑科学研究主题，包括室内空气质量，照明效果，热舒适性和能源效率，来推进STEM教育。将利用建筑科学的多个领域来吸引STEM学科的教师，其方式是将可持续发展教育作为一个统一和充满活力的主题，并将系统思维作为总体学习目标。参与的教师将配备能力和仪器，在各自的校舍中进行空气质量，照明系统和能源使用的实验，作为实践和应用STEM的教学模块。这将通过为城市和农村学区和中级单位的三批教师提供身临其境的RET体验，以及30名教师参与发展研究经验和课程整合实践来实现，这些实践将研究，学生参与和STEM/系统思维教育成果联系起来。这项研究将推进可持续发展教育的方法，因此，预计将吸引妇女和代表性不足的少数民族学生进入STEM领域。与州和国家合作伙伴的联系将使可持续发展教育原则和生活实验室战略得到广泛传播和采用，作为推进STEM教育以及能源和人类健康全球挑战的工具。该项目将导致共享的教学模块，可以由科学，数学，物理和化学教师改编。这个可再生能源网站将展示教师参与的研究，可持续发展为重点的教学环境和STEM学习成果之间的直接联系。教师主导和学生参与的数据收集和分析作为一个创新和有意义的背景下，将评估其对学生STEM自我效能和学生使用数据和证据有效解决问题和优化系统，环境，界面和设备的能力的影响。该研究还将评估可持续发展教育作为培养教师能力的战略，以系统思维设计有效的教学方法。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

The proposed Building Education Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) site will advance STEM education by engaging teachers in building science research topics including indoor air quality, lighting effectiveness, thermal comfort, and energy efficiency. Multiple domains of building science will be utilized to engage teachers in STEM disciplines in a way that offers Education for Sustainability as a unifying and energizing theme and Systems Thinking as the overarching learning objective. Participating teachers will be equipped with the capabilities and instruments to experiment with air quality, lighting systems, and energy use in their respective school buildings as hands-on and applied STEM-based teaching modules. This will be accomplished through offering immersive RET experience for three cohorts of teachers across urban and rural school districts and Intermediate Units and the engagement of 30 teachers in developmental research experiences and curriculum integration practices that link research, student engagement, and STEM/Systems Thinking education outcomes. This research will advance methods in Education for Sustainability and as a result, is expected to attract women and underrepresented minority students into STEM fields. Linkages to state and national partners will enable broad dissemination and adoption of Education for Sustainability principles and the living laboratory strategy as instruments for advancing STEM education as well as global challenges in energy and human health. The project will lead to shareable teaching modules that can be adapted by science, math, physics, and chemistry teachers.This RET site will demonstrate direct linkages between teacher-engaged research, sustainability focused teaching contexts, and STEM learning outcomes. Teacher-led and student engaged data collection and analysis as an innovative and meaningful context will be evaluated for its impact on student STEM self-efficacy and student ability to use data and evidence to effectively solve problems and optimize systems, environments, interfaces, and devices. This research will also evaluate Education for Sustainability as a strategy for cultivating teacher capacity to design effective instructional methods in systems thinking.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.