A Meeting of the Minds: A Symposium for Community College Teacher Education Colleagues

正在举行一个社区学院教育工作者研讨会，讨论两年制学院教师培训项目面临的相关问题。来自全国各地的社区学院教师，管理人员和工作人员以及代表专业组织的教育工作者正在开会：（1）编制可以在其他机构复制的高效STEM教师准备战略和实践;（2）讨论和报告国家科学基金会资助的项目[如高级技术教育（ATE）支持的项目]和卓越教师培养合作计划（CETP）]导致了体制变革;（3）讨论受这些计划影响的未来K-12教师如何提高他们的科学，技术，工程，和数学（STEM）的内容和教学知识，以及如何系统地记录和报告这些改进;以及（4）向NSF提出涉及社区学院的教师培训计划的具体建议。智力优势：在最重要的文件《投资于未来的教师：两年制学院在未来教师的科学和数学准备方面的不可或缺的作用》（NSF，1998年）发布十年后，现在应该审查该文件的建议对STEM教师教育工作和社区学院的机构实践的影响。为此，研讨会为与会者提供了一个论坛，以便：（a）讨论2008年科学、技术、工程和数学教师培训方面的最佳做法和挑战，使参与机构能够进一步增进知识;（B）研究如何在其他机构调整或采用成功做法;（c）研究如何增加社区学院中在其机构提供高质量STEM教师教育的同事群体;（d）编写一份报告成功做法的文件，以及（e）汇编国家科学基金资助的STEM教师培训项目如何影响机构的信息。更广泛的影响：参与研讨会的参与者的多样性对于更大规模地准确报告教师准备工作至关重要。作为研讨会的结果而编写的文件正在分发给与会者、其指定人员、国家科学基金会和国家专业组织。这份文件正被用于地方机构、国家组织以及国家一级的进一步讨论。

A symposium for community college educators is being held to discuss pertinent issues facing teacher preparation programs at two-year colleges. Community college faculty, administrators, and staff from institutions across the country and educators representing professional organizations are meeting to: (1) compile highly effective STEM teacher preparation strategies and practices which can be replicated at other institutions; (2) discuss and report the ways in which NSF-funded projects [such as those supported by Advanced Technological Education (ATE) and Collaboratives for Excellence in Teacher Preparation (CETP)] have led to institutional changes; (3) discuss the ways in which future K-12 teachers impacted by these programs have improved their science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) content and pedagogical knowledge and how these improvements can be systemically documented and reported; and (4) generate specific recommendations to NSF for teacher preparation initiatives that involve community colleges. Intellectual Merit: A decade after the release of the paramount document, "Investing In Tomorrow's Teachers: The Integral Role of Two-Year Colleges in Science and Mathematics Preparation of Prospective Teachers" (NSF, 1998), it is now appropriate to examine the impact the recommendations of this document have had on STEM teacher education efforts and on community colleges' institutional practices. To this end, the symposium provides a forum for participants to: (a) discuss best practices and challenges in STEM teacher preparation in 2008, allowing the participating institutions to further enhance their knowledge; (b) examine ways in which successful practices can be adapted or adopted at other institutions; (c) examine ways to increase the group of colleagues in community colleges who provide high-quality STEM teacher education at their institutions; (d) develop a document which reports successful practices, and (e) compile information on how NSF-funded projects in STEM teacher preparation have impacted institutions. Broader Impact: The diversity of participants who engage in the symposium is essential for accurately reporting teacher preparation efforts on a larger scale. The document created as a result of the symposium is being distributed to participants, their designees, NSF, and national professional organizations. This document is being used to further discussions at local institutions, state organizations, as well as on the national level.