GK-12: Creating an Integrated Engineering and Technology Education Continuum

该项目建立在实践工程教育成功改革的基础上，实践工程教育是科罗拉多大学博尔德分校工程与应用科学学院综合教学（ITL）计划的核心。20名研究生和8名本科生，经过全面的“工程大使”培训，将在过去七年中提供ITL计划中开创的教学方法和工程内容。每位研究员都与一名教师导师配对，该导师是根据他/她对工程推广的表现兴趣而选择的。GK-12项目在学院和K-12学校之间建立了重要的合作伙伴关系，通过提供独特的研究生学习和指导经验，影响K-12学习者社区，扩大ITL本科工程项目的成功。研究员作为课堂代理人，通过将技术增强的实践学习内容与数学、物理科学和技术课程相结合，帮助教师更好地为学生准备一个日益依赖工程和技术的世界。研究员通过使用基于项目的实践学习，以不同的学习方式影响K-12学生，同时帮助K-12教师获得工程和技术方面的内容知识，作为解决适当的州教育标准的工具。许多形成性和总结性的评估方法被用来评估和不断完善该计划的许多方面。除了提供课堂支持和鼓励更多的K-12学生追求技术职业之外，该项目还有助于将外展作为研究生和工程学院有效和有价值的学术努力合法化。

This project builds on successful reforms in hands-on engineering education that are the core of the Integrated Teaching and Learning (ITL) Program in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Twenty graduate and 8 undergraduate GK-12 Fellows, comprehensively trained as "engineering ambassadors," are delivering the pedagogy and engineering content pioneered in the ITL Program over the past seven years. Each Fellow is paired with a faculty mentor selected for his/her demonstrated interest in engineering outreach.The GK-12 program is creating a significant partnership between the College and K-12 schools to extend the success of the ITL undergraduate engineering program by providing a unique graduate student learning and mentoring experience that impacts the K-12 community of learners. The Fellows serve as classroom agents to help teachers better prepare students for a world increasingly dependent on engineering and technology through the integration of technology-enhanced, hands-on learning components with math, physical science and technology curricula. Fellows impact K-12 students with diverse learning styles through the use of project-based, hands-on learning, while assisting K-12 teachers in gaining content knowledge on engineering and technology as vehicles to address appropriate state educational standards. A number of formative and summative evaluation methods are being used to assess and continuously refine the many facets of the program. In addition to providing classroom support and encouraging more K-12 students to pursue technical careers, the project helps legitimize outreach as a valid and worthwhile academic endeavor for graduate students and engineering faculty.