RET Site: Engaging and Training Alabama STEM Teachers in Sensing Technologies

RET 网站：让阿拉巴马州 STEM 教师参与传感技术并对其进行培训

• 批准号: 2302144
• 负责人: Todd Freeborn
• 金额: $ 60.26万
• 依托单位: University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-15 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2302144&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RET; Site; Engaging; Training; Alabama

The three-year RET Site: Engaging and Training Alabama STEM Teachers in Sensing Technologies is hosted by the University of Alabama to advance STEM education in sensing and measurement technologies across multiple domains of engineering and computer science for middle school science teachers from west central Alabama. The site focus is motivated by the fact that knowledge of how to measure and analyze physical features of materials, devices, tissues, and/or the environment underlies many engineering research questions. Each summer a group of 10 middle school teachers from west central Alabama will participate in 8-week research experiences and explore projects with applications connected to measuring the human body and the environment. Participants will increase their capacity to engage in engineering research and increase their understanding about its cross-cutting nature. Teachers will translate their research experiences and knowledge about engineering/computer science into course materials to support their science teaching. These specially developed materials combined with teachers’ increased awareness of engineering are expected to increase students’ enthusiasm for future studies and careers in STEM-related fields, which is a national need.The three-year RET Site: Engaging and Training Alabama STEM Teachers in Sensing Technologies is hosted by the University of Alabama to advance STEM education in sensing and measurement technologies across multiple domains of engineering and computer science for middle school science teachers from west central Alabama. Each summer, a group of 10 middle school teachers from west central Alabama will participate in 8-week research experiences under the mentorship of faculty from the College of Engineering at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Middle school science teachers will be recruited from school districts surrounding Tuscaloosa (e.g., Tuscaloosa City, Tuscaloosa County, Hale County, Greene County, Marengo County) for this program. The main objectives of this RET site are to 1) increase teachers' knowledge of engineering/computer science disciplines, engineering research, and engineering career opportunities and 2) increase teachers’ science teaching efficacy beliefs. To meet these goals teachers will receive focused mentoring on their research project, participate in engineering workshops (learning the engineering design process, engineering careers, programming, and electronics), and receive support from science-teaching specialists to design course material informed by their experiences that aligns with the Alabama science standards. During the academic year following their participation, teachers will join an RET community of practice to support each other during integration of their course material into their classrooms and receive support to publish their lessons through TeachEngineering.org. Faculty mentors will also visit the RET classrooms to support teacher’s delivery of their course materials and answer student questions about engineering and STEM careers.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.

为期三年的RET网站：阿拉巴马州STEM教师参与传感技术，由阿拉巴马大学主持，以推动来自西部阿拉巴马州中西部中学科学教师的多个工程和计算机科学领域的敏感性和测量技术的STEM教育。该站点的重点是因为如何测量和分析材料，设备，组织和/或环境的知识是许多工程研究问题的基础。每年夏天，来自阿拉巴马州西部的10名中学教师组成的一组将参加为期8周的研究经验，并探索与测量人体和环境有关的应用程序。参与者将提高参与工程研究的能力，并提高对跨裁判性质的理解。教师将把他们的研究经验和有关工程/计算机科学的知识转化为课程材料，以支持他们的科学教学。这些专门开发的材料以及教师对工程学的认识的提高，预计将增加学生对与STEM相关领域的未来研究和职业的热情，这是国家的需求。这是三年的RET网站：参与和培训阿拉巴马州STEM教师在Sensing Technologies中，由阿拉巴马大学促进跨层次的教师在跨多个教学的教学中促进STEM教育，从而跨越了跨多个教学的教学。每年夏天，来自阿拉巴马州西部的10名中学教师组成的小组将在塔斯卡卢萨（Tuscaloosa）阿拉巴马大学工程学院的教师学院的心态下参加为期8周的研究经验。中学科学教师将从塔斯卡卢萨（Tuscaloosa）周围的学区（例如，塔斯卡卢萨市（Tuscaloosa City），塔斯卡卢萨市（Tuscaloosa City），塔斯卡卢萨县（Tuscaloosa City），马伦戈县格林县Hale县）进行此计划。该RET站点的主要目标是1）提高教师对工程/计算机科学学科，工程研究和工程职业机会的了解以及2）增加教师的科学教学效力信念。为了实现这些目标，教师将重点进行研究项目，参加工程研讨会（学习工程设计过程，工程职业，编程和电子产品），并从科学教学专家那里获得支持，以设计与阿拉巴马州科学标准相结合的经验来设计课程材料。在他们参与后的学年中，教师将加入一个RET实践社区，在将课程材料整合到教室中，并通过ThendEngineering.org获得课程，从而相互支持。教师导师还将访问RET教室，以支持教师提供其课程材料的交付，并回答学生有关工程和STEM职业的问题。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响评估标准来评估NSF的法定任务。