TExTs for the 21st Century

工程（53）该项目正在改变STEM教育的提供方式，用一个工具包取代教科书和讲座教学模式，该工具包对教师来说同样容易使用，并鼓励多种形式的主动学习。该项目的主要成果是21世纪的特殊教学工具包（TEXT）（以取代目前的教科书）。这里定义的TExT是一个完整和综合的包，不仅有利于信息传递，而且还实施了被证明是有效的主动学习和其他教学方法。它通过一整套书面、音频和视频材料，将信息传递过程转移到课堂之外。然后，它提供了一套完整的和集成的主动学习工具与课程计划的教师，可以在课堂上使用，使学生开始学习的材料与直接指导他们的老师。伴随每个主动学习工具的课程计划足够详细，以至于不精通教育文献的教师仍然可以实施这些改进的教学/学习方法，而不会比他们以前在准备讲义上投入更多的精力。当然，许多人希望改进这些工具或创建新的工具，这个项目鼓励这一活动，以建立一个在TEXT领域的学者社区，他们致力于持续改进，评估和扩展。该项目是一个原型，如果成功，可以作为整个STEM课程的TExTs模型。TEXT是一个完整的工具包;它还提供了课堂外持续独立学习的资源，评估工具和交付工具。

Engineering (53) This project is transforming the delivery of STEM education by replacing the textbook and lecture mode of teaching with a kit that is just as easy for an instructor to use and which encourages multiple forms of active learning. The primary deliverable for this project is a Toolkit for Exceptional Teaching (TExT) for the 21st century (to replace the current textbooks). A TExT, as defined here is a complete and integrated package that not only facilitates information transfer, but also the implementation of active learning and other teaching methods that are proven to be effective. It does this by shifting the information transfer process outside the classroom via a full set of written, audio and video materials. It then provides a complete and integrated set of active learning tools with lesson plans for the instructor that can be used during class time so that students begin learning the material with direct guidance from their teacher. The lesson plans that accompany each active learning tool are sufficiently detailed that a teacher who is not well versed in the education literature can nonetheless implement these improved teaching/learning methods with no more effort than they formerly invested in preparing their lecture notes. Of course, many will wish to improve these tools or create new ones, and this project is encouraging that activity in order to build a community of scholars in the field of the TExT who are working on its continual improvement, assessment, and expansion. This project is a prototype that, if successful, could serve as a model for TExTs across the STEM curricula. The TExT is a complete toolkit; it also provides resources for continued independent learning outside the classroom, tools for assessment, and tools for delivery.