PolarTREC - Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating

该提案继续并扩展了PolarTREC项目，该项目将K-12教育工作者与研究人员在北极和南极的实地经验相匹配。项目每年将在全国范围内遴选6-8个北极项目和4-6个南极项目的教师。在四年的时间里，48名教师将前往极地地区。本项目有四个目标：提高教师多学科极地科学内容知识水平；改进教师的教学实践，特别是利用探究式学习将极地科学转化为课堂教学；提高极地研究人员？对K-12教育的理解和参与；增加学生？了解并参与极地地区和极地科学、技术、工程或数学（STEM）职业。教师的经验包括一个专注于拥有成功的实地经验并将其转化为课堂的强烈方向，制定一个关注他们具体需求和目标的教育和推广计划，一篇期末论文，向实时材料网站提交期刊和照片，以及偶尔从实地现场直播，随后，通过共享费用交换活动和教师网络分享将经验融入课堂的想法，所有这些都以项目的外部评估为基础，使用形成性和总结性技术来解决教师的专业发展问题。

This proposal continues and expands the PolarTREC program that matches K-12 educators with researchers for field experiences in the Arctic and Antarctic. Annually the project will select 6-8 Arctic and 4-6 Antarctic projects to host teachers selected from nationwide applicants. Over four years, 48 teachers will go to the polar regions. The project has four objectives to: improve teacher content knowledge of multidisciplinary polar science; improve teacher instructional practices, especially the use of inquiry-based learning to translate polar science to the classroom; improve polar researchers? understanding of and engagement in K-12 education; and increase students? understanding of and engagement in the polar regions and polar science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) careers. The teacher experience includes an intense orientation focusing on having a successful field experience and translating that into the classroom, developing an education and outreach plan that focuses on their specific needs and goals, a final essay, submitting journals and photos to a website of real-time materials plus occasional live broadcasts from the field, follow up through a share fare to exchange activities and a network of teachers sharing ideas for incorporating the experience into their classrooms all backed up by external evaluation of the project using formative and summative techniques to address teacher professional development.