Plates for Education - UK

“英国教育板”项目旨在通过为中学物理教师和他们的学生提供真正的研究设备(新墨西哥州斯隆望远镜的光纤“插板”)供他们使用，并为他们提供资源来调查尖端的天文测量数据，从而激励他们。通过为教师提供长期的专业学习课程(苏格兰的CLPL，在英格兰和威尔士更为人所知的是持续专业发展，CPD)，该项目旨在吸引至少200名物理教师，并通过他们至少6,000名中学生，以：-增加教师对特定学科的信心-使教师能够将更多现实世界的科学研究带入课堂-提高物理教师的自我效能感，提高他们作为物理学家的认同感，以及他们的幸福感，因此，有助于提高教职员工的比率--留住这一职业--利用独特的研究手工艺品吸引中学生，并创造一种对学校“一片天空”的主人翁意识--提高学生的研究科学意识，并改善他们对科学的态度我们的目标受众是中学物理教师(苏格兰为S1-S6，英格兰为7-13年级)及其学生。中学物理教师在整个职业生涯中倾向于在不同的水平上授课，而这些资源并不针对特定的课程水平。相反，他们的目标是将课程项目(如黑体辐射定律、平方反比定律、绘图和绘图、红移、哈勃定律、讲故事等)与真实的研究数据和每个学校独特的科学仪器联系起来。一旦一名教师对盘子和资源感到满意，人们希望这些资源将嵌入他们的实践中，并在教师职业生涯中多次使用。我们的初步评估表明，这也是老师们的意图--例如，在我们2019年的一次评估中，一位老师表示“总的来说，这是一个奇妙的事件，让我有精力在L&T的尽可能多的阶段中纳入这一事件”。教师和学校的招聘将优先考虑社会经济贫困地区和地理偏远地区，这两个地区在科学领域的代表性都很低。该项目旨在让教师将这项工作的方法和想法融入到他们的实践中，以便该项目的遗产将超越最初的学生受众，包括：-受过培训、有动力和自信地在整个职业生涯中将研究科学带入课堂的教师-中学物理系的板子，经常用于课堂学习-公开共享的资源，供任何物理教师使用。

The 'Plates for Education - UK' project aims to inspire secondary Physics teachers and their pupils by providing them with a genuine piece of research equipment (an optical-fibre 'plug plate' from the Sloan Telescope in New Mexico) for them to work with, and resources for them to investigate cutting-edge astronomical survey data. By providing teachers with career-long professional learning sessions (CLPL in Scotland, better known as continuing professional development, CPD, in England and Wales), the project aims to engage at least 200 teachers of Physics and through them at least 6,000 secondary school pupils, to: - Increase teachers' subject-specific confidence - Enable teachers to bring more real-world science research into the classroom - Improve the self-efficacy of teachers of Physics, their sense of identity as physicists, and their well-being, thus contributing to an improved rate of staff-retention in this career - Engage secondary pupils with a unique research artefact and create a sense of ownership over their school's "patch of sky" - Increase pupils' awareness of research science and improve their attitudes towards science Our target audience is composed of secondary school teachers of Physics (S1-S6 in Scotland, Year 7-13 in England) and their pupils. Secondary Physics teachers tend to teach at different levels throughout their career, and the resources are not aimed at a specific curriculum level. Rather, they aim to contextualise curriculum items (such as blackbody radiation law, inverse-square law, plotting and graphing, redshift, Hubble law, storytelling, and more) with real research data and a scientific apparatus that is unique to each school. Once a teacher is comfortable with the plate and the resources, it is hoped the resources will become imbedded in their practice, and resorted to multiple times throughout the teacher's career. Our preliminary evaluation suggests that is the intention of teachers too - e.g. one teacher in one of our 2019 evaluations stated "Overall a fantastic event which has energised me to include this in as many stages of L&T as possible". Recruitment of teachers and schools will prioritise socioeconomically deprived areas as well as geographically remote areas, both of which are underrepresented in science. The project aims for the teachers to embed the methods and ideas of this work into their practice, so that the legacy of the project beyond the initial audience of pupils will include: - Teachers trained, motivated and confident to bring research science into the classroom throughout their career - Plates in secondary school Physics departments, being regularly used for classroom learning - Resources shared publicly for any Physics teachers to use.