ATE Program for Physics Facutly

技术员教育的重点是让学生为处理复杂技术系统的劳动力工作做好准备。这样的技术人员不仅需要有特定的技术知识，而且还需要扎实的物理知识基础，以便他们有能力识别、制定、记录和解决现在和未来的实际问题；以及部署新技术。该项目正在为两年制大学(TYC)和高中的物理教师举办一系列为期三天的密集、集中、动手的专业和课程开发研讨会/会议，以及后续活动，这些教师为准备从事技术职业或技术员职业生涯的学生提供服务。每年，在不同的TYC举办四次研讨会/会议，特别鼓励高中和大学教职员工团队教授物理或与物理相关的课程，提供先进技术和技术人员课程。来自TYC、高中和学院/大学的教育工作者，以及来自商业和工业的开发人员领导研讨会。这些研讨会在基于微型计算机的实验室、数字视频、计算机模拟、概念任务和工具、网络和互联网活动、小组工作、学习评估和与物理相关的技术人员教育等领域提供有效的技术集成、技术实施和学习战略。研讨会和活动的目的是：1)帮助参与者建立和加强他们对学生、教育项目、商业和工业以及与物理和技术相关领域的劳动力的需求的理解和欣赏；2)向他们提供关于计算机技术、ATE支持的中心和项目、学习评估以及相关课程材料和活动的最新进展和应用的知识和经验；3)使他们具备在其课程和计划中开发、适应、采用和实施研讨会活动和材料的背景和动机；4)使他们做好准备，以影响学生在物理和劳动力相关问题上的学习；以及5)为他们提供在TYC与高中物理、技术项目以及与企业和行业之间建立桥梁和发展工作关系的方法和想法。这些讲习班通过为技术多样化的劳动力提供教学培训和技术，促进将经过验证的创新教学技术纳入课堂并加以应用。该项目正在通过适用于全国各地中学和两年制大学课程的研讨会材料，提高对物理基本概念、原理和关系的科学理解水平，这些基本概念、原理和关系对于正确理解物理世界以及它与技术劳动力的关系至关重要。

Technician education focuses on preparing students for workforce jobs that deal with complex technical systems. Such technicians not only need to have specific technical knowledge, but also a strong base in physics knowledge so they have the competence to recognize, formulate, document, and solve real problems now and in the future; as well as deploy new technology. This project is conducting a series of three-day, intensive, focused, hands-on professional and curriculum development workshops/conferences and follow-up activities for physics faculty in two-year colleges (TYCs) and high schools who serve students preparing for technology-based or technician careers. Each year, four workshops/conferences are held at various TYCs with special incentives to encourage teams of high school and college faculty who teach physics or physics-related courses serving advanced technology and technician programs. Educators from TYCs, high schools, and colleges/universities, and developers from business and industry lead the workshops. The workshops offer effective technology integration, technology implementation, and learning strategies in areas such as microcomputer-based laboratories, digital video, computer simulations, conceptual tasks and tools, web and internet activities, group work, assessment of learning, and physics-related technician education. The workshops and activities are designed to: 1) help participants build and enhance their understanding and appreciation of the needs of students, educational programs, business and industry, and the workforce in areas dealing with physics and technology; 2) provide them with knowledge of and experience with recent advances and applications of computer-based technology, ATE supported centers and projects, assessment in learning, and relevant curriculum materials and activities; 3) equip them with the background and incentive to develop, adapt, adopt, and implement workshop activities and materials into their courses and programs; 4) prepare them to impact student learning in physics and workforce related issues; and 5) furnish them with ways and ideas for building bridges and developing working relationships between TYC and high school physics, technology programs, and with businesses and industries. The workshops facilitate the incorporation and application of proven innovative instructional techniques into classrooms by providing instructional training and techniques for a technologically diverse workforce. The project is improving the level of scientific understanding of the fundamental concepts, principles, and relations of physics that are critical to a legitimate understanding of the physical world and how it relates to the technological workforce through workshop materials applicable to secondary and two-year college courses throughout the country.