IPY STEM Polar Connections

IPY STEM Polar Connections是一个课程开发和专业发展计划。它包括为参与同事专业发展的在职教师提供学年在线交流的住宿暑期学院。在每个暑期学院，教师将被介绍给STEM极性连接模块，将强调科学探究的过程，并将探索各种行之有效的教学技术，包括探究式教学，合作学习和学生学习的形成性评估方法。在麻省大学的暑期学院将被设计为推进的知识，干教师有发生在极地地区的特点和过程，使他们能够有效地实地测试课程模块和传播模块的最终版本在地方，区域和国家层面。 STEM极性连接模块的活动将与国家科学教育标准以及三个参与地区每个州的州标准保持一致。这些活动将强调提高社会对极地地区自然环境和生态系统变化的性质和可能原因以及这些变化与其他自然环境和生态系统的关系的认识的价值。STEM Polar Connections模块的跨学科活动也将旨在让初中和高中学生了解极地研究的多种途径，极地研究的国际合作程度以及他们将有机会参与该研究。这些模块将采用多种格式，以最大限度地扩大初中和高中STEM课程的范围，这些模块可以有效地集成到这些课程中。 教师将积极参与制作STEM Polar Connections工作人员最初起草的STEM Polar Connections模块的最终版本。一个强有力的教育研究部分将评估为开展研究提供地方和区域背景的有效性，这些研究将导致对受极地地区物理环境和生态系统影响并与之相互作用的地球全球系统的了解。

IPY STEM Polar Connections is a curriculum development and professional development program. It includes residential summer institutes with academic year online communication for in-service teachers who are involved in professional development of their colleagues. During each summer institute, teachers will be introduced to sets of STEM Polar Connections Modules that will emphasize the process of scientific inquiry and will explore a variety of proven techniques for effective teaching, including inquiry-based teaching, cooperative learning, and methods for formative assessment of student learning. The summer institutes at UMass will be designed to advance the knowledge that STEM teachers have of the characteristics of and processes that occur in Polar Regions so that they can effectively field test curriculum modules and disseminate final versions of the modules at the local, regional, and national level. The activities of the STEM Polar Connections Modules will be aligned with the National Science Education Standards and with state standards for each state in the three participating regions. The activities will emphasize the value of advancing society's understanding of the nature and possible causes of changes in the physical environment and ecosystems of the Polar Regions and the relationship of those changes with other physical environments and ecosystems. The interdisciplinary activities of STEM Polar Connections Modules will be also designed to acquaint middle and high school students with the many avenues of polar research, the extent of international collaborations in polar research, and opportunities they will have to participate in that research. The modules will utilize several formats in order to maximize the range of middle and high school STEM programs into which the modules can effectively be integrated. Teachers will be actively engaged in the process of producing final versions of the STEM Polar Connections Modules initially drafted by the STEM Polar Connections staff. A strong educational research component will assess the effectiveness of providing local and regional contexts for conducting research that results in an understanding of Earth's global systems that are influenced by and interact with the physical environments and ecosystems of Polar Regions.