Phase II: Hawaiian Values, Science and Technology: Advancing A New Paradigm for STEM Education

拟议的项目建立在夏威夷大学第一阶段成功的坚实基础上？我希洛？的Keaholoa 1 STEM项目（NSF奖0223040），这是革命性的科学教育在夏威夷大学？i Hilo（UH Hilo）通过说服教师和管理人员克服机构惯性，并在教学，学习，研究和基础设施方面做出重要改变，以改善对STEM部门和学生的服务，特别是夏威夷土著STEM学生。 这个第二阶段的建议的目的是建立在我们最初的nsf-tcup合作协议（2002-2007）所取得的成功，通过扩大服务和加强机构承诺，以确保持续改善干保留和毕业率为所有学生在UH希洛，并最终促进当地夏威夷原住民在干专业的领导。对于Keaholoa第二阶段倡议，我们采用了夏威夷重要的文化象征-芋头或kalo植物（Colocasia esculenta）作为我们的标志。这个图标将象征着我们致力于表达适当的教学法，包括夏威夷文化知识和课程的制定;教师和学生的研究;学生同伴辅导和指导，在教育夏威夷原住民学生方面具有独特的有效性。 凯霍洛阿？的活动旨在实现以下第二阶段的目标：1。与UH希洛校园合作伙伴合作，创建一个学生成功和保留中心（SSRC），通过该中心协调第一阶段的学术支持服务，如物理科学和其他活动，促进学习，参与和成功的STEM学科和专业的同行辅导和指导。继续并加强第一阶段的教师发展，通过在课程和教学中纳入具有文化意义的观点，提高教学效率和STEM专业的吸引力。继续并加强高效的第一阶段学生/教师STEM研究计划，通过该计划，夏威夷土著学生参与教师研究，并帮助告知教师研究的问题和方法。继续和扩大外联活动，包括指导初中和高中学生，暑期高中到大学的新娘计划，与夏威夷民间组织的互动，以及与社区学院的衔接，这些学院为UH Hilo提供服务。

The proposed project builds upon the solid foundation of the successful Phase I University of Hawai?i Hilo?s Keaholoa1 STEM project (NSF Award 0223040), which is revolutionizing science education at the University of Hawai?i Hilo (UH Hilo) by convincing faculty and administrators to overcome institutional inertia and to make important changes in teaching, learning, research, and infrastructure to improve services to STEM departments and students, especially Native Hawaiian STEM students. The aim of this Phase II proposal is to build on the demonstrated success achieved in our initial NSF-TCUP Cooperative Agreement (2002-2007) by expanding services and strengthening institutional commitment to ensure lasting improvements in STEM retention and graduation rates for all students at UH Hilo, and ultimately to promote local Native Hawaiian leadership in the STEM professions. For the Keaholoa Phase II initiative we have adopted as our emblem the important Hawaiian cultural icon, the taro or kalo plant (Colocasia esculenta). This icon will be symbolic of our commitment to the articulation of appropriate pedagogy that embraces Hawaiian cultural knowledge and to the formulation of curricula; faculty and student research; student peer tutoring and mentoring that are uniquely effective in educating Native Hawaiian students. Keaholoa?s activities are designed to achieve the following Phase II objectives:1. Collaborate with UH Hilo campus partners to create a Student Success and Retention Center (SSRC)through which to coordinate Phase I academic support services such as peer tutoring and mentoring in physical sciences and other activities that promote learning, engagement and success in STEM subjects and majors.2. Continue and enhance Phase I faculty development to improve teaching effectiveness and the attractiveness of STEM majors through the incorporation of culturally significant perspectives in curriculum and instruction.3. Continue and enhance the highly effective Phase I student/faculty STEM research program through which Native Hawaiian students participate in faculty research and help to inform the questions and methods of faculty research.4. Continue and broaden outreach involving mentoring of middle and high school students, summer high school to college bride program, interaction with Hawaiian civic organizations, and articulation with community colleges that feed into UH Hilo.