Integrating Research & Education: Contemporary Research in the Education of Teachers

堪萨斯州立大学（KSU）已被选为国家科学基金会的研究和教育一体化表彰奖的十个获奖者之一。 KSU通过努力将研究经验与教师和基于发现的学习整合到未来K-12教师的本科教育和在职K-12教师的研究生发展中，从而脱颖而出。 通过科学系和教育学院的教师之间的合作，为当前和未来的教师开发了创新课程。 科学和教育学院还合作为小学生提供了一个顶点研究经验。 通过这些合作，教师和学生在教育学院是丰富的参与前沿研究和科学教师的成员学习的最新研究成果的学习和教学。 这些合作的成果包括遗传学和量子物理学方面的创新新课程，以及提高科学教师对教学法的认识。 这将有助于更广泛地将科学和工程课程转变为以发现为基础的方法。 该大学的愿景是将这种方法扩展到所有学生。 该大学整合研究和教育的努力是根据具体成果设计的：增加K-12教师的科学内容知识;提高当前和未来K-12教师对科学学习和教学能力的信心水平;提高学生教师在第一次课堂教学经验中的表现;并发表记录举措及其结果的研究论文。该大学在实现这些目标方面取得了显著的成功。 该大学将获得50万美元的资助，目标是在未来三年内扩大、记录和传播其示范性做法。 使用奖励资金的计划包括：制定专门用于扩大教员参与融合活动的“科索沃州立大学教育与研究融合方案”;记录用于开设新课程的过程;在专业协会会议和其他大学开设和举办讲习班，以突出这一方法;制作讲习班的多媒体版本，以光盘和通过万维网分发;以及为其他科学和工程学科的教师开发新的以研究为基础的科学和工程入门课程。

Kansas State University (KSU) has been selected as one of ten recipients of the National Science Foundation's Recognition Awards for the Integration of Research and Education. KSU has distinguished itself through its efforts to integrate research experiences with faculty and discovery-based learning into the undergraduate education of future K-12 teachers and the post-graduate development of inservice K-12 teachers. Innovative courses for current and future teachers have been developed through collaborations between faculty in science departments and the College of Education. Science and education faculty also collaborated in providing a capstone research experience for elementary education students. Through these collaborations, faculty and students in the College of Education are enriched by involvement in cutting edge research and members of the science faculty learn the results of the latest research on learning and teaching. The products of these collaborations include innovative new courses in genetics and quantum physics as well as a heightened awareness of pedagogy among science faculty. This will facilitate a wider conversion of science and engineering courses to the discovery-based approach. The university's vision is to expand this approach to all students. The university's efforts to integrate research and education were designed with specific outcomes in mind: increasing the science content knowledge of K-12 teachers; increasing the confidence level of current and future K-12 teachers in their ability to learn and teach science; improving the performance of student teachers in their first classroom teaching experience; and publishing research papers documenting the initiatives and their results. The university has documented noteworthy success in achieving these goals. The university is being awarded $500,000 with the goal of expanding, documenting, and disseminating its exemplary practices over the coming three years. Plans for the use of the award funds include: establishing the KSU Program for Integrating Education and Research dedicated to expanding faculty participation in integration activities; documenting the process used to create new courses; creating and presenting workshops at professional society meetings and other universities to highlight this approach; creating multimedia versions of the workshop for distribution on CD-ROM and through the World Wide Web; and developing new research-based introductory science and engineering courses and courses for teachers in other science and engineering disciplines.