Collaborative Research: Chemistry Coalitions, Workshops and Communities of Scholars

该项目的目标是创建一系列主题和可持续的教师学习社区。该项目将利用以前化学科学研究中心在NSF-CCLI项目中开发的许多组件。该项目部分基于在25个财团机构举办的45个系列研讨会，为教师提供了许多担任领导角色并发展指导伙伴关系和合作的机会。讲习班为参加者提供高质量的课程材料，以加强他们自己的教学，并使他们能够积极参与广泛的讲习班后活动。参与者作为新研讨会、小型研讨会和拓展活动的主持人，以及使用公共网络基础设施的专题社区网站的开发人员/版主参与其中。该项目包括小额赠款，以支持教师在课程修订和推广。一个多方面的评估项目提供形成性和总结性评估，延伸到个别学生的学习水平，并允许整个项目响应发展中社区中个人参与者的需求，以确保在广泛的机构中开发、共享和采用教育产品。知识价值。该项目的目标是为教师发展提供重要的机会，从而提高学生的学习。虽然讲习班是教师发展的有效机制，但如果孤立地考虑，其影响是有限的。因此，该项目在制定学者社区方面利用了广泛的工作坊后参与。一系列为期五天的讲习班是这些社区的一个交流渠道，一系列讲习班后的活动确保了参与者在不同层次上的广泛参与。该项目提供资源，通过与其他STEM教育合作，支持新的传播举措。主题的选择和研讨会演讲的水平是由参与者的需求驱动的，由一个全面的评估计划确定，并得到咨询委员会的投入。更广泛的影响。提高化学科学教育水平对维护国家的科学基础至关重要。教师的发展和培训是不断提高学生学习和课堂体验的重要努力。讲习班由各种各样的机构的教师提出，包括研究型大学，主要是本科机构，以及首次出现的社区学院。该项目在2011-2015年期间将接待900名参与者参加讲习班，另有900人（或更多）参加外联活动，还有许多人通过网络社区参与。成熟的招聘流程使该项目能够吸引各种各样的参与者，并在社区大学招聘少数族裔教员和讲师。到五年计划结束时，使用研讨会材料的教师网络预计将对超过18万名学生产生影响。

The goal of this project is to create a series of topical and sustainable Faculty Learning Communities. The project will make use of many components developed by the previous Center for Workshops in the Chemical Sciences NSF-CCLI project. Based, in part, on a series of 45 workshops held at 25 consortium institutions, the project is providing faculty members with numerous opportunities to take leadership roles and to develop mentoring partnerships and collaborations. The workshops provide participants with high quality curricular materials to enhance their own teaching and to equip them to become active in extensive post-workshop activities. Participants are engaged as presenters of new workshops, mini-workshops and outreach activities, and as developers/moderators of topical community websites using a common web infrastructure. The project includes mini-grants to support faculty members in curriculum revision and outreach. A multifaceted evaluation program provides formative and summative assessments that extend to the individual student learning level, and allow the overall project to respond to the needs of individual participants within the developing communities in order to ensure the development, sharing and adoption of educational products at a broad set of institutions. Intellectual Merit. The goal of the project is to provide significant opportunities for faculty development and thereby enhance student learning. While workshops are an effective mechanism for faculty development, their impact is limited if considered in isolation. Accordingly, the project makes use of extensive post-workshop engagement in the formulation of communities of scholars. A series of five-day workshops serves as one entrée to these communities, and a series of post-workshop activities insures extended engagement of participants at a variety of different levels. The project provides resources to support new dissemination initiatives through partnerships with other STEM education efforts. The selection of topics and level of workshops presentations are driven by participant needs, established by a comprehensive evaluation program and with input from an Advisory Committee. Broader Impact. Improvement in education in the chemical sciences is vital to maintaining the scientific foundation of the nation. Faculty development and training are important endeavors in continuous improvement of student learning and classroom experiences. Workshops are presented by faculty at a wide variety of institutions, including research universities, predominantly undergraduate institutions, and, for the first time, community colleges. The project is hosting 900 participants in workshops in 2011-2015, another 900 (or more) in outreach activities, and many others through web-based communities. A mature recruitment process allows the project to attract a diverse set of participants, with specific initiatives to recruit minority faculty members and instructors at community colleges. By the end of the five-year program, the network of instructors who have used workshop materials is expected to have had an impact on more than 180,000 students.