Innovation through Institutional Integration (I3): The Modeling Institute

亚利桑那州立大学（ASU）通过机构整合（I-3）创新：建模研究所整合了其最成功的NSF赞助的STEM教师教育计划的努力，更多：建模物理（许多NSF计划）;项目途径（MSP）;专业学习社区资源（TPC）;通过工程设计和启动管道项目（ITEST）进行项目学习;问生物学家（NSDL）; SMALLab（CISE& IGERT）;亚利桑那州中部-凤凰城长期生态研究（CAP LTER）;和MARS（NASA）。 I-3建模研究所专注于在中年级水平的关键教育关头的综合主题。 这一I-3努力的结果是打算通过一项将建模作为核心结构的研究计划，培养200名获得STEM认可的中年级教师;开发10门以STEM可持续发展为主题的硕士课程;通过建立科学村，使这些STEM教师成为专业人员（专业学习社区）; STEM网络（凤凰城地区STEM教师专业发展网络）和Ask-A-Scientist资源（网上按需学习门户）;关于College For Kids（一个为中学生举办的夏令营和一个为新生的STEM中学教师举办的实习）。3建模研究所借鉴了ASU在建模方面的开创性工作，并将其作为一个综合性的结构，通过有意义的活动将数学和科学内容联系起来。 I-3建模研究所的行动理论源于研究，这些研究表明，创建科学现象模型并测试这些模型的能力取决于对现象的数学思维方式的发展，包括理解数据模式的能力。 此外，对学生学习的研究表明，背景对于理解数学概念和技能至关重要。 该项目结合了前沿的基于研究的教学和评估方法，以可持续发展背景下的建模教学为中心。I-3建模研究所的创新方面包括：招聘和培养大量在职小学教师成为中等年级STEM教师;将建模结构注入硕士水平的STEM教育计划;将可持续发展科学作为科学和数学课程中解决问题的背景;并在STEM部门之间进行协调，从而与研究科学家建立强大的联系，作为STEM教育学习社区的一部分。 I-3建模研究所支持小学教师的职业轨迹走向学科专业化，使他们能够丰富中学生的教育经验。 I-3建模研究所专注于提高中年级学生的学习，自己。 研究表明，中学是对数学和科学的兴趣开始减弱的地方，沿着的还有考试成绩和STEM职业抱负。 I-3建模学院的毕业生配备了知识和技能的工具箱，让学生参与动态数学和科学学习。I-3建模学院与亚利桑那州发展最快的两个学区合作开发，利用每个计划中最成功的方面进行整合，以产生持久的STEM认证和小学专业发展计划教师成为凤凰城城市和农村Marvila县学校的中学科学和数学教师。 最终，该计划所依赖的伙伴关系是一个充满活力的STEM教育社区的核心，支持大学研究人员和中学STEM教育工作者之间的持续专业发展和合作。

Arizona State University's (ASU) Innovation through Institutional Integration (I-3): The Modeling Institute integrates the efforts of its most successful NSF-sponsored initiatives in STEM teacher education and more: Modeling Physics (numerous NSF programs); Project Pathways (MSP); Professional Learning Community Resources (TPC); Project Learning through Engineering Design and Prime the Pipeline Project (ITEST); Ask-a-Biologist (NSDL); SMALLab (CISE & IGERT); Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP LTER); and MARS (NASA). The I-3 Modeling Institute focuses on the integrative theme of critical educational junctures at the middle grades level. The result of this I-3 effort is intended to be the production of 200 middle grades teachers with STEM endorsements through a program of study that integrates modeling as the core construct; development of ten STEM sustainability-themed master's level courses; persistence of these STEM teachers as professionals through the establishment of Scientific Villages (professional learning communities); STEM-net (a Phoenix area STEM teacher professional development network) and Ask-A-Scientist resources (a web-based portal for on-demand learning); and College For Kids (a summer camp for middle school students and practicum for nascent STEM middle grades teachers).The I-3 Modeling Institute draws upon ASU's seminal work in modeling and employs it as the integrative construct, connecting mathematics and scientific content through meaningful activity. The I-3 Modeling Institute's theory of action emanates from research studies that show the capacity to create models of scientific phenomena and to test those models is dependent on the development of mathematical ways of thinking about the phenomena, including the ability to make sense of patterns in data. Moreover, studies of student learning demonstrate that context is critical for coming to understand mathematical concepts and skills. This project incorporates cutting-edge research-based instructional and assessment methods, centered on Modeling Instruction in a sustainability context.Innovative aspects of the I-3 Modeling Institute include: recruiting and preparing a large number of in-service elementary teachers to become middle grades STEM teachers; infusing the modeling construct into a master's level STEM education program; integrating sustainability science as a problem-solving context in the science and mathematics courses; and coordinating across STEM departments, resulting in powerful linkages to research scientists as part of the STEM education learning community. The I-3 Modeling Institute supports the career trajectory of elementary school teachers towards a disciplinary specialization that enables them to enrich the educational experiences of middle school students. The I-3 Modeling Institute focuses on improving the learning of middle grades students, themselves. Research indicates that middle school is where interest in mathematics and science begins to wane, along with test scores and STEM career aspirations. I-3 Modeling Institute graduates are equipped with a toolbox of knowledge and skills to engage students in dynamic mathematics and science learning.The I-3 Modeling Institute, developed in partnership with two of the fastest growing school districts in Arizona, leverages the most successful aspects of each of the programs to be integrated in order to generate an enduring STEM certification and professional development program for elementary school teachers to become middle school science and mathematics teachers in urban Phoenix and rural Maricopa county schools. Ultimately, the partnership upon which this program rests is the nucleus for a vibrant STEM education community supporting ongoing professional development and collaborations among university researchers and secondary STEM educators.