Earth Education for Sustainable Societies Workshop

目前科学教育的优先事项包括努力使学生参与科学推理，并利用科学知识和实践来理解自然现象并建设性地应对地方和全球挑战。该项目对这些优先事项作出了回应，将不同地球科学教育界的代表聚集在一起举办讲习班，以确定广泛加强地球科学教育的高度优先需求，并启动计划，通过课程开发和教师专业发展活动满足已确定的需求。在全球和地方环境挑战的背景下，讲习班参与者将考虑与了解地球系统、促进地球科学素养和探索可持续解决办法有关的教育优先事项。讲习班参与者还将考虑学生为未来在科学领域就业可能获得的可取技能，特别强调如何使准备解决可持续发展问题的学生群体多样化。讲习班结束后将继续设立工作组，利用虚拟会议工具继续开展协作工作。这一为期3天的地球可持续社会教育讲习班将扩展和加强由先前资助的STEP中心发起的活动：一体化：地球科学促进可持续未来的跨学科教学(国家科学基金会奖1125331)。该中心编写了在社会问题背景下教授地球科学的课程材料，并启动了教师专业发展方案和实践社区。该项目将在这些努力的基础上，将前一个项目的参与者与地球科学教育界内外的其他研究人员和教育工作者聚集在一起，他们希望从事与学习可持续发展和地球系统有关的教学、研究或外联活动。将使用一项全面的招聘战略，以确保学科视角、文化视角和机构背景的广泛多样性。在研讨会之前，参与者将被邀请参加市政厅和/或网络研讨会，以获得背景信息以及对项目资源和期望的概述。通过提供筹备和参加计划中的讲习班的多种方式，该项目将扩大现有的实践社区并使之多样化，并促进正在进行的合作，以满足讲习班参与者确定的高度优先的需求。将鼓励参与者组成持续的工作组，并使用虚拟会议工具继续讨论和协作努力。探索研究PreK-12计划(DRK-12)旨在通过研究和开发创新资源、模型和工具，显著提高PreK-12学生和教师在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)方面的学习和教学。DRK-12计划中的项目建立在STEM教育的基础研究和先前的研究和开发工作的基础上，为拟议的项目提供了理论和经验上的证明。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Current priorities in science education include efforts to engage students in scientific reasoning and using the knowledge and practices of science to understand natural phenomena and constructively respond to local and global challenges. This project responds to these priorities by bringing together representatives of diverse geoscience education communities in a workshop to identify high-priority needs for strengthening geoscience education broadly, and to initiate plans for addressing the identified needs through curriculum development and teacher professional development activities. In the context of global and local environmental challenges, workshop participants will consider educational priorities associated with understanding Earth systems, promoting geoscience literacy, and exploring sustainable solutions. Workshop participants will also consider desirable skills students might acquire for future employment in the sciences, with particular emphasis on ways to diversity the population of students prepared to address issues of sustainability. Working groups established during the workshop will continue after the workshop, using virtual meeting tools to continue collaborative efforts.This 3-day Earth Education for Sustainable Societies workshop will extend and enhance activities initiated by the previously funded STEP Center: InTeGrate: Interdisciplinary Teaching of Geoscience for a Sustainable Future (NSF award 1125331). The Center has developed curriculum materials for teaching geoscience in the context of societal issues, and it has initiated teacher professional development programs and communities of practice. This project will build on those efforts by bringing together participants in the previous project with other researchers and educators within and outside the geoscience education community who want to engage in teaching, research, or outreach activities related to learning about sustainability and Earth systems. A comprehensive recruitment strategy will be used to ensure broad diversity of disciplinary perspectives, cultural perspectives, and institutional affiliations. Prior to the workshop, participants will be invited to attend a Town Hall and or webinars to gain background information and an overview of project resources and expectations. By providing multiple ways of preparing for and participating in the planned workshop, the project will both expand and diversify the existing community of practice and promote ongoing collaborations to address high-priority needs identified by workshop participants. Participants will be encouraged to form ongoing Working Groups and use virtual meeting tools to continue discussions and collaborative efforts.The Discovery Research PreK-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by PreK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools. Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects.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.