Geoscience Education Infrastructure Planning Meeting; Northfield, Minnesota - November 2019

国家认识到需要改善STEM教育，以满足21世纪世纪的劳动力需求，提高公民和社区的科学素养，并提高目前在科学领域代表性不足的群体的参与度。这些挑战在地球科学领域尤为严峻：劳动力需求预计将增长;地球科学素养是有效应对自然灾害，环境挑战和资源需求的基础;多样性落后于其他科学学科。SERC和NAGT提供的网络基础设施和社区支持基础设施在支持地球科学教育工作者和地球科学教育研究界改善地球科学教育和增加公平获得学习机会方面发挥着关键作用。本次研讨会将支持该社区基础设施的发展，最大限度地提高其效用并扩大其覆盖范围，以应对这些挑战。第2A部分研讨会将举行，以考虑地球科学教育界的基础设施需求，并为未来的基础设施发展提出建议。一个由30名地球科学教育工作者和地球科学教育研究人员组成的具有广泛代表性的小组将在卡尔顿学院举行为期两天的会议。会议与会者将审查基础设施的支持，目前提供给地球科学教育界的科学教育资源中心（SERC），包括其与地球科学教师协会（NAGT）的合作，并提出建议，重点放在四个领域：1。加强现有的基础设施要素，包括基础网络基础设施。使基础设施得到更广泛的使用，包括消除社区不同阶层使用基础设施的任何障碍。增加基础设施，以加强使用，包括在地球科学教育和研究中。利用基础设施来支持地球科学教育和地球科学教育研究的多样性、公平性和包容性的改善。研讨会的建议将通过一个专门的网站与社区广泛分享。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知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

Part 1The Nation recognizes the need to improve STEM education to meet the workforce needs of the 21st century, increase the scientific literacy of its citizens and communities, and improve participation by groups currently underrepresented in the sciences. These challenges are particularly acute in the geosciences where: workforce need is predicted to grow; geoscientific literacy is foundational for an effective response to natural hazards, environmental challenges, and resources needs; and diversity lags behind other science disciplines. The cyberinfrastructure and community support infrastructure provided by SERC and NAGT play a key role in supporting geoscience educators and the geoscience education research communities in improving geoscience education and increasing equitable access to learning opportunities. This workshop will support the evolution of this community infrastructure, maximizing its utility and reach in meeting these challenges.Part 2A workshop will be held to consider the infrastructure needs of the geoscience education community and make recommendations for future infrastructure development. A broadly representative group of 30 geoscience educators and geoscience education researchers will be assembled for a two-day meeting at Carleton College. Meeting attendees will review the infrastructure support currently provided to thegeoscience education community by the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) including its collaborations with the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) and make recommendations focused on four areas:1. Strengthening existing infrastructure elements including the underpinning cyberinfrastructure.2. Bringing the infrastructure into wider use, including addressing any barriers to use by differentelements of the community.3. Additions to the infrastructure that would enhance use including within geoscience educationresearch.4. Use of the infrastructure to support improvements in diversity, equity, and inclusion in geoscienceeducation and geoscience education research.The workshop recommendations will be shared broadly with the community through a dedicated website.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.