Dartmouth Rural STEM Educator Partnership

项目摘要 STEM领域的就业需求增长速度是非STEM领域就业需求增长速度的两倍。 在过去的十年里，教育下一代科学成为国家的重要问题， 工程和科学过程。对学生进行STEM教育的必要性尤其重要。 在低收入的农村社区，学生可能会认为，STEM学习 与他们的生活几乎没有关系; ii）几乎没有（如果有的话）与STEM相关的资源和基础设施 在他们的学校或其邻近地区提供;和iii）STEM教师，通常每所学校一名， 他们经常教他们的专业领域，缺乏一个网络，他们可以学习， 他们可以分享经验。通过项目的提出，低收入、农村的中学教师 社区将与达特茅斯的教师和研究生以及专业科学合作 蒙特希尔科学博物馆的教育工作者为他们的学生开发可持续的STEM课程单元。 学校这些跨领域单元将包括一系列实践、调查、主动学习和 标准一致的课程，可用于改善学生的学习每年。一旦 这些单元已在我们的四所试点学校的课堂环境中开发和测试， 在NH和VT的其他合作伙伴学校，最后到任何希望采用他们的学校。另外还有按 STEM农村教育者网络，通过该网络可以传播跨领域单元，教师可以 分享和相互支持，将创建网络，以提高教师的能力，征求意见， 分享信息等等。

Project Summary The employment demands in STEM fields grew twice as fast as employment in non-STEM fields in the last decade, making it a matter of national importance to educate the next generation about science, engineering and the scientific process. The need to educate students about STEM is particularly pronounced in low-income, rural communities where: i) students may perceive that STEM learning has little relevance to their lives; ii) there are little, if any, STEM-related resources and infrastructure available at their schools or in their immediate areas; and iii) STEM teachers, usually one per school, often teach out of their area expertise, and lack a network from which they can learn and with which they can share experiences. Through the proposed project, middle school teachers in low-income, rural communities will partner with Dartmouth faculty and graduate students and professional science educators at the Montshire Museum of Science to develop sustainable STEM curricular units for their schools. These crosscutting units will include a series of hands-on, investigative, active learning, and standards-aligned lessons that may be used annually for the betterment of student learning. Once developed and tested in a classroom setting in our four pilot schools, the units will be made available to other partner schools in NH and VT and finally to any school wishing to adopt them. In addition, A STEM rural educator network, through which crosscutting units may be disseminated and teachers may share and support each other, will be created to enhance the teachers ability to network, seek advice, share information, etc.