SC ATE National Resource Center for Expanding Excellence in Technician Education: Advancing Faculty Development and Program Improvement

该中心通过调整和实施创新战略以及使用Web 2.0技术，显著加强和扩大了教师发展在整个ATE项目中的影响，并刺激了技术人员教育项目的改进：(1)扩展服务并增加www.TeachingTechnicians.org的使用；(2)扩大同伴指导和技术援助，影响技术人员教育项目的改进；(3)确定并广泛传播经过验证和有希望的方案改进战略，特别注重扩大代表性不足群体的参与；(4)鼓励使用评估工具来识别和维持成功，并帮助在ATE项目中培养评估文化。该中心正在启动一个可持续的过程，将成熟的ATE中心和项目的隐性知识转化为明确的知识和工具，以改善技术人员教育，部分是通过适应克莱姆森大学国家辍学预防中心开发的成功商业模式。这些调整将教育工作者与建议和基于证据的“ATE解决方案”联系起来，以推动ATE向前发展，并最大限度地减少技术人员教育中的重复工作。

The center is significantly strengthening and expanding the impact of faculty development across the ATE Program and stimulating program improvement in technician education by adapting and implementing innovative strategies and using Web 2.0 technologies to: (1) expand the services and increase use of www.TeachingTechnicians.org; (2) scale up peer mentoring and technical assistance to affect program improvement in technician education; (3) identify and broadly disseminate proven and promising strategies for program improvement, with a specific focus on broadening participation of underrepresented groups; and, (4) stimulate the use of evaluation tools to identify and sustain success and help foster a culture of evaluation in the ATE program. The center is initiating a sustainable process for transforming implicit know-how from mature ATE Centers and projects into explicit knowledge and tools to improve technician education, in part, through the adaptation of a successful business model developed by the National Dropout Prevention Center, Clemson University. The adaptations are linking educators to advice and evidence-based "ATE Solutions" to move ATE forward and minimize duplication of effort in technician education.