RET Site: Building Education

RET 网站：建筑教育

基本信息

批准号：
1855256
负责人：
Somayeh Asadi
金额：
$ 60万
依托单位：
Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2019-09-01 至 2024-03-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1855256&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
RET Site Building Education

项目摘要

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.

拟议的教师建筑教育研究经验（RET）站点将通过吸引教师来建立科学研究主题，包括室内空气质量，照明效率，热舒适和能源效率，从而提高STEM教育。建筑科学的多个领域将被用来吸引教师参与STEM学科的方式，该方式为可持续性提供教育，作为统一和充满活力的主题和系统思维，作为总体学习目标。参与的教师将配备能够在各自的学校建筑物中尝试空气质量，照明系统和能源用途的能力和工具，作为动手和基于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名教师提供沉浸式RET经验，以及30位教师参与发展研究经验和课程整合实践，这些实践将研究，学生参与以及STEM/System/Systems/Systems思维教育局限于联系。这项研究将推进可持续性教育方法，因此，预计将吸引妇女和代表性不足的少数族裔学生进入STEM领域。与州和国家合作伙伴的联系将使对可持续性原则的广泛传播和采用教育，以及实验室战略，作为推进STEM教育以及能源和人类健康方面的全球挑战的工具。该项目将导致可共享的教学模块，这些模块可以通过科学，数学，物理和化学教师来调整。该RET网站将展示教师参与研究，以可持续性为中心的教学环境和STEM学习成果之间的直接联系。将评估以教师为主导和学生参与的数据收集和分析作为创新且有意义的背景，其影响其对学生STEM自我效能感和学生使用数据和证据的影响，以有效解决问题并优化系统，环境，接口和设备。这项研究还将评估可持续性教育，以作为培养教师在系统思维中设计有效教学方法的能力的战略。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获得支持的。