TeachEngineering: Democratizing Access to Engineering Education for K-12 Teachers

TeachEngineering：让 K-12 教师获得工程教育的机会民主化

• 批准号: 1941701
• 负责人: Michael Soltys
• 金额: $ 318.94万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1941701&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: TeachEngineering; Democratizing; Access; Engineering; Education

The TeachEngineering (TE) digital library at the University of Colorado at Boulder has a reputation in the K-12 engineering education community as a high-quality teacher resource of classroom-tested, standards-based, hands-on curricula. As the disseminator of original K-12 engineering curricula from ~70 engineering grantees, the free collection is accessed by 3.2M mostly-teacher users annually, realizing 20%+ annual growth. The 1,700+ TeachEngineering lessons, activities and maker challenges support teachers in meeting the NGSS engineering components (as well as other science and math standards) in their classrooms and are designed to be taught by non-engineers with easy-to-follow, how-to videos being added monthly. The project serves fundamental national interests: strengthening widespread STEM literacy, increasing the general population's awareness of what engineers do, attracting more and more diverse students to the engineering field, cultivating youth ambitions, and building an academic foundation to fuel the nation's economic future. The proposed strategic TE system enhancements, expansion of lower elementary design-based curricula (new K-2 focus), further user-centered research, a broadened emphasis on providing blended teacher professional development that puts the "E" in STEM, and enhanced marketing ensure TeachEngineering's ongoing relevance and sustainability.The overarching goal of the TeachEngineering (TE) digital library is to democratize engineering education by launching experiential lifelong STEM opportunities for all youth through pervasive usage of its curricular collection-a free K-12 educator resource that emphasizes design thinking and engineering habits of mind with all learners. The standards-aligned, design-focused, hands-on engineering activities rely upon readily available, inexpensive, and simple materials. Project activities include new tools, practices and marketing strategies to cultivate a community of practice to engage teachers. The TE team will forge partnerships with major engineering-education entities to become the go-to resource for K-12 engineering design curricula and to create blended engineering design professional development training for K-12 teachers so that any engineering college or school district can offer the hands-on design education. Creating new methodologies will enable deeper alignment of TE curricula to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), making the use of TE curricula easier for all K-12 educators' even novice, non-STEM teachers. Finally, to create equity-focused access pathways and support the national full-day kindergarten movement, TeachEngineering will promote a renewed curriculum and marketing focus that strengthens the "K-2" component of the K-12 engineering ecosystem.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.

科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的TeachEngineering(TE)数字图书馆在K-12工程教育界享有声誉，是经过课堂测试、基于标准的实践课程的高质量教师资源。作为约70名工程授权者原创K-12工程课程的传播者，免费收藏的用户每年有320万人访问，其中大部分是教师，实现了20%以上的年增长率。1700多个TeachEngineering课程、活动和Maker挑战赛支持教师在课堂上满足NGSS工程组件(以及其他科学和数学标准)，并设计由非工程师授课，每月添加易于操作的视频。该项目符合国家的根本利益：加强普遍的STEM素养，提高普通民众对工程师工作的认识，吸引越来越多不同类型的学生进入工程领域，培养年轻人的抱负，并为推动国家经济未来奠定学术基础。拟议的战略性TE系统增强，扩展较低的基于初级设计的课程(新的K-2重点)，进一步以用户为中心的研究，更广泛地强调提供混合型教师专业发展，将“E”放在STEM中，以及加强营销，确保TeachEngineering的持续相关性和可持续发展。TeachEngineering(TE)数字图书馆的总体目标是通过普遍使用其课程集合为所有年轻人推出体验式终身STEM机会，从而使工程教育民主化-这是一种免费的K-12教育资源，强调设计思维和所有学习者的工程思维习惯。符合标准、专注于设计、动手操作的工程活动依赖于现成、廉价和简单的材料。项目活动包括培养实践社区以吸引教师的新工具、做法和营销战略。TE团队将与主要的工程教育实体建立合作伙伴关系，成为K-12工程设计课程的首选资源，并为K-12教师创建混合工程设计专业发展培训，以便任何工程学院或学区都可以提供实践设计教育。创建新的方法将使TE课程更符合下一代科学标准(NGSS)，使所有K-12教育工作者甚至是新手、非STEM教师更容易使用TE课程。最后，为了创建关注公平的途径并支持全国全日制幼儿园运动，TeachEngineering将促进更新课程和营销重点，以加强K-12工程生态系统中的K-2部分。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。

项目成果

K-12 Engineering and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS): A Network Visualization and Analysis

K-12 工程和下一代科学标准 (NGSS)：网络可视化和分析

• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: 2020 ASEE Annual Conference and Expo
• 作者: Reitsma, René F.;Hoglund, Brian Gordon;Chaker, Dua;Marks, Andrea Marks;Soltys, Michael.
• 通讯作者: Soltys, Michael.