Transforming Undergraduate STEM Experiences Through the Next Generation of Scientist and Engineer Educators

专业发展计划（PDP）通过培训参与者（主要是研究生）在本科阶段教授科学和工程来发展未来的教师专业知识。 PDP已经发展了十多年，包括研讨会，实践教学经验和教学后反思。 参与者设计并教授一个整合了全纳教学策略的探究性学习活动，然后他们使用通过评估收集的证据来评估他们的活动的有效性，他们也设计了评估。主要来自两个机构的200多名参与者现已完成全部课程。 目前的项目正在通过提高方案的效率和可持续性以及更广泛的受众来扩大PDP的影响。 这些努力包括：从完全面对面的培训模式过渡到在线/面对面的混合方法;在新的地点培训该计划的新学徒教员;测试新的传播模式并在四个新的合作伙伴地点实施;通过客观评估监测PDP的有效性。 该项目具有前瞻性，重点是传播。它将把每年的参加人数从大约60人增加到大约100人，地点从两个增加到六个。 PDP的参与者将反过来，每年教300名本科生。 随着扩大的PDP校友群体继续在他们的职业生涯中前进，这个项目有可能影响到更有效的，包容性的教学全国范式转变。

The Professional Development Program (PDP) develops future faculty expertise by training participants (mostly graduate students) to teach science and engineering at the undergraduate level. The PDP has evolved over ten years and consists of workshops, a practical teaching experience, and a post-teaching reflection. Participants all design and teach an inquiry learning activity that integrates inclusive teaching strategies, and then they evaluate the effectiveness of their activity using evidence gathered through an assessment, which they also design. Over 200 participants, primarily from two institutions, have now completed the full program. The current project is expanding the impact of the PDP by improving the efficiency and the sustainability of the program, and its accessibility to a broader audience. Efforts include: transitioning from a fully in-person training model to a blended online/in-person approach; training new apprentice instructors of the program at new sites; testing new dissemination models and implementing them at four new partner sites; and monitoring the effectiveness of the PDP through objective assessments. This project is forward-looking and focused on dissemination. It will expand annual capacity from about 60 to about 100 participants, and the number of sites from two to six. PDP participants will, in turn, teach 300 undergraduates per year. As the expanded group of PDP alumni continue to advance in their careers, this project has the potential to affect a paradigm shift toward more effective, inclusive teaching nationally.