PolarTREC - Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating

该提案继续并扩大了PolarTREC计划，该计划将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。项目每年将从全国范围内的申请者中挑选6-8名北极和4-6名南极项目的教师。四年内，48名教师将前往极地地区。该项目有四个目标：提高教师的多学科极地科学内容的知识;提高教师的教学实践，特别是使用探究式学习，以翻译极地科学到课堂上;提高极地研究人员？了解和参与K-12教育;并增加学生？了解和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集中在有一个成功的实地经验，并将其转化为课堂，制定一个教育和推广计划，侧重于他们的具体需求和目标，最后的文章，提交期刊和照片的实时材料加上现场偶尔直播的网站，采取后续行动，开展共享交流活动，并建立教师网络，分享将经验融入课堂的想法，所有这些都得到了对项目的外部评估的支持，使用形成性和总结性技术解决教师专业问题发展

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.