Getting Results: ATE Teaching in Community Colleges - Large Scale Materials Development for Professional Development

WGBH教育基金会与社区学院创新联盟合作，正在开发、实地测试和传播多媒体资源，以促进先进技术教育教师使用有效的教学实践。教材改编自学习交流网络模块，这是一个专门为社区大学教师编写的基于研究的专业发展课程。定制材料的特点是视频片段，说明了典型的实践和在线资源以及针对ATE学科的策略。这些材料的主要受众是在ATE项目中教学的兼职教师。这些材料对于有兴趣在教学理解的背景下重新审视他们的教学策略的新老社区学院教师也很有用。这些资源正在全国社区大学的13个ATE中心和项目中进行实地测试，修改以提高其有效性和易用性，然后在全国另外10个ATE项目的代表性小组中进行进一步评估，并通过750多个社区大学创新联盟成员学院和112个企业合作伙伴的网络进行传播。此外，美国社区学院协会正在协助传播这些材料。这些资源的智力价值是由来自工业界和学术界的专家的积极参与保证的，包括来自ATE项目和社区学院系统的大量代表；以及WBGH在开发引人注目的教师培训资源方面长达数十年的记录，这些资源充分吸引并激励了观众。德克萨斯大学社区学院领导力项目正在开展形成性和总结性评估活动，以确保新材料在每个发展阶段都经过严格的测试。

The WGBH Educational Foundation, in partnership with the League for Innovation in the Community College, is developing, field testing, and disseminating multimedia resources to foster the use of effective teaching and learning practices among Advanced Technology Education faculty members. The materials are adaptations of Learning Exchange Networks modules, a research based professional development curriculum written specifically by and for community college teachers. The customized materials feature video segments illustrating exemplary practices and online resources and strategies targeted to ATE disciplines. The primary audience of the materials is comprised of adjunct faculty who are teaching in ATE programs. These materials are also useful to new and experienced community college faculty who are interested in revisiting their instructional strategies within the context of teaching for understanding.These resources are being field tested in 13 ATE centers and programs in community colleges across the country, revised to increase their effectiveness and ease of use, then further evaluated at a representative group of 10 additional ATE programs across the country, and disseminated through a network of over 750 League for Innovation in the Community College member colleges and 112 corporate partners. In addition, the American Association of Community Colleges is assisting in the dissemination of the materials.The intellectual merit of these resources is ensured by the active engagement of experts from industry as well as academia, including substantial representation from ATE programs and the community college system; and by the decades-long track record of WBGH in developing compelling teacher training resources that fully engage and inspire the viewer. The Community College Leadership Program at the University of Texas is conducting formative and summative evaluation activities to ensure that the new materials are rigorously tested at each stage of development.