RET Site: Computing Research Experiences for STEM Teachers (CREST)

该奖项为加州大学戴维斯分校一个新的教师研究体验(RET)网站提供资金，该网站专注于机器人技术。在为期六周的暑期项目中，45名在职和任职前的计算机科学和STEM教师将与教师导师配对，开展与计算和机器人相关的尖端研究。RET教师还将编写将计算机概念融入STEM学科的课程材料，并在学年期间在课堂上开展相关的以研究为基础的活动。该计划包括两个系列的研讨会和一个暑期研讨会，以探索对教师的知识、经验和教学实践的影响，并与当地社区的其他教师接触。RET研究员将成为高级教师，并协助为其他中学教师提供计算方面的专业发展，从而扩大该项目的影响和可持续性。智力价值：该项目的智力价值在于强大的研究导师团队和大学为该项目提供的优秀基础设施。该项目建立在先前的研究和初步研究的基础上。这些项目很有说服力，目前很有兴趣，对教师和学生来说都很令人兴奋。学校在本学年实施的新的研究型课程应该为培养K-12水平的计算思维能力提供重要的研究型方法。广泛的影响：该计划计划针对约洛县学区的在职教师以及大学的职前教育学生。目标学校有大量未充分代表和经济上处于不利地位的学生，他们将受到影响。在国内和国际上传播成果和课程材料将为推广和产生更广泛的影响铺平道路，这对于将基本概念带入K-12领域是普遍的和基本的。

This award provides funding for a new Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Site focused on robotics at the University of California-Davis. Forty five in-service and pre-service computer science and STEM teachers will be paired with faculty mentors to conduct cutting-edge research related to computing and robotics during a six week summer program. The RET teachers will also develop curricular materials for the integration of computing concepts into STEM disciplines and implement related research-based activities in their classrooms during the academic year. The program includes two sequences of workshops and a summer symposium to explore the impact on the teachers' knowledge, experiences, and instructional practice and to reach out to other teachers in the local community. The RET Fellows will become master teachers and assist in providing other secondary school teachers with professional development in computing, thereby broadening the impact and sustainability of the project.Intellectual merit: The intellectual merit of this project lies with the strong research mentor team and excellent infrastructure at the university for the project. The project builds on prior research and pilot studies. The projects are compelling and of current interest and are exciting for teachers and their students. The new research-based curriculum implemented In schools during the academic year should provide important research-based methods for developing computational thinking competencies at the K-12 level.Broader impacts: The program plans to target in-service teachers from the Yolo county school district as well as pre-service education students at the university. The target schools have a large population of underrepresented and economically disadvantaged students who will be impacted. National and international dissemination of the results and the curricular materials will open the pathways for replication and broader impact that is pervasive and fundamental to moving the underlying concepts into the K-12 arena.