UK National Schools' Astronomer

英国国立学校天文学家

• 批准号: PP/E002617/1
• 负责人: Paul Roche
• 金额: $ 11.87万
• 依托单位: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=PP%2FE002617%2F1
• 关键词: UK; National; Schools; Astronomer

Following two PPARC National Award bids to support astronomy education in the UK, primarily through the role of 'National Schools' Astronomer' (NSA), I wish to continue and develop aspects of this work through a PPARC S+S Fellowship. The particular aspect that I wish to develop is an extension of a highly successful 'science communication' workshop delivered for the past 2 years within the Graduate School at Cardiff University. My proposal would allow me to run 10 workshops each year at universities and regional centres around the UK, targeting professional and amateur astronomers in particular. The workshops would educate astronomers (and young postgrads and postdocs in particular) in the requirements for dealing with schools audiences, but also contain valuable elements dealing with general science communication skills and media and public work. The other key function I envisage for this role would be to maintain the existing regional network of centres that can act as training sites and 'help desks' for schools involved with robotic astronomy. The current loose network of around a dozen sites could easily be doubled in size (with existing expressions of interest), but the commitment of providing training, workshops and user support at each site requires additional staff time. The final part of the NSA role would be an online element, based around the existing resource and news website, www.astronomy-education.com. This site was established to support the Deep Impact UK small award project in 2005, but has proven very popular with UK teachers looking for a site that points them at suitable resources etc. Whilst not the one-stop-shop website that was recommended by the Barstow Report, it certainly has the potential to grow in use amongst the UK astronomy/space education community, particularly in support of the fast-growing GCSE Astronomy course. These three elements all link together to provide a 'help and support' structure for UK educators, and to a lesser extent students, within which many other PPARC-supported initiatives would gain great benefits. At the very least, the proposal would produce several hundred better-trained schools' speakers from within the astronomy/space science community, a tried-and-tested teacher training programme running at venues across the UK (and at which there are trained individuals who can assist schools in the local area) and a topical and targeted website supporting UK schools interests in astronomy/space.

在两次PPARC国家奖竞标后，主要通过“国家学校天文学家”（NSA）的角色来支持英国的天文学教育，我希望通过PPARC S+S奖学金继续和发展这项工作的各个方面。我希望开发的特别方面是对过去两年在卡迪夫大学研究生院举办的非常成功的“科学传播”研讨会的扩展。我的提议将允许我每年在英国各地的大学和区域中心举办10个讲习班，特别针对专业和业余天文学家。这些讲习班将教育天文学家（特别是年轻的研究生和博士后）与学校观众打交道的要求，但也包含有关一般科学传播技巧以及媒体和公共工作的宝贵内容。我设想这个角色的另一个关键功能是维护现有的区域中心网络，这些中心可以作为培训地点和参与机器人天文学的学校的“帮助台”。目前大约有12个站点的松散网络可以很容易地将规模扩大一倍（有现有的兴趣表达），但是在每个站点提供培训、讲习班和用户支持的承诺需要额外的工作人员时间。NSA角色的最后一部分将是基于现有资源和新闻网站www.astronomy-education.com的在线元素。这个网站是在2005年为支持英国深度影响小型奖励项目而建立的，但事实证明，在寻找合适资源等网站的英国教师中，这个网站非常受欢迎。虽然不是Barstow报告推荐的一站式网站，但它在英国天文学/空间教育界的使用肯定有增长的潜力，特别是在支持快速增长的GCSE天文学课程方面。这三个要素都联系在一起，为英国的教育工作者提供了一个“帮助和支持”的结构，在较小程度上也为学生提供了一个“帮助和支持”的结构，在这个结构中，许多其他pparc支持的倡议将获得巨大的利益。至少，该提案将从天文学/空间科学社区中产生数百名训练有素的学校演讲者，一个在英国各地运行的经过考验的教师培训计划（并且有训练有素的个人可以帮助当地的学校），以及一个支持英国学校对天文学/空间感兴趣的专题和目标网站。