COLLABORATIVE: Faculty Development to Support High Impact Activities That Transform Undergraduate Geoscience Education

该项目支持数字资源开发和教师研讨会，旨在建设地球科学界的能力，以提高提交给NSF TUES计划和其他NSF教育计划的赠款提案的数量和质量。该项目提供了一份提案编写讲习班的菜单（在部门和区域地球科学会议上，以及独立的多日讲习班），目标是研究型和综合性大学以及两年制和四年制学院的地球、海洋、大气、环境和地球空间科学教师。该项目的目标是教师有限或没有以前的NSF教育资金。该项目的一个重要组成部分是收集调查数据，旨在确定导致TUES计划的地球科学提交率低的原因，特别是该项目的主要成果是提高地球科学教师提交TUES计划的TUES提案的质量和数量。增加提交的高质量TUES提案的数量可能会导致更多的TUES提案获得资助，但更重要的是，这表明更多的地球科学教师在提高所有学生的地球科学教育质量方面具有高度的创造性。该项目还提高了地球科学系对NSF教育计划的认识，以及竞争性提案的特点。参加研讨会和使用数字资源的教师正在加入一个地球科学家网络，他们共同关注通过主动学习吸引学生。为了帮助在地球科学界成功制定与教育有关的赠款提案方面建立专门知识和领导能力，“促进者培训”活动被纳入了几个讲习班，该项目针对全国各类机构的地球科学教师，提高了大量本科生（STEM专业和非专业）的地球科学教育质量。针对以前没有NSF教育资助经验的教师的项目努力正在扩大教师和机构的参与，这些教师和机构以前在地球科学教育界的互动有限。该项目开发的闭路字幕数字资源正在促进教师讲习班参与者和通过互联网访问这些信息资源的教师之间的信息共享。

This project is supporting digital resource development and faculty workshops aimed at building capacity within the geosciences community to increase both the quantity and quality of grant proposals submitted to the NSF TUES program and other NSF education programs. This project is delivering a menu of proposal writing workshops (at sectional and regional geoscience conferences, and stand-alone multi-day workshops) aimed at earth, oceans, atmospheric, environmental, and geospatial science faculty from research and comprehensive universities, and two- and four-year colleges. The project is targeting faculty with limited or no previous NSF education funding. An important part of this project involves collecting survey data aimed at identifying reasons contributing to low geoscience submission rates to the TUES program in particular.A primary outcome of this project is to generate an increase in both the quality and quantity of TUES proposals submitted by geoscience faculty to the TUES program. Increasing the number of quality TUES proposals submitted may lead to greater numbers of TUES proposals funded, but more importantly indicates a greater number of geoscience faculty engaged at a highly creative level in improving the quality of geosciences education for all students. This project is also increasing the awareness among geoscience faculty of NSF education programs, and of the characteristics of competitive proposals. Faculty attending the workshops and using the digital resources are joining a network of geoscientists who share a common concern for engaging students through active learning. To help build expertise and leadership in the successful development of education-related grant proposals within the geoscience community "facilitator-training" activities are being integrated into several of the workshops.By targeting geoscience faculty at all institutional types across the country, this project is improving the quality of geoscience education for large numbers of undergraduates, both STEM majors and non-majors. Project efforts targeting faculty with no previous NSF education funding experience is broadening participation by faculty and institutions that have had limited prior interaction within the geoscience education community. Closed-captioned digital resources developed by this project are facilitating information sharing among faculty workshop participants and among faculty who are accessing these information resources over the Internet.