CCEP-II: MADE-CLEAR - Maryland-Delaware Climate Change Education, Assessment, and Research

马里兰州-特拉华州气候变化教育、评估和研究伙伴关系(明确)正在建设一个可持续的基础设施，在两个州的区域内开展有效和相关的气候变化教育。虽然明确将重点放在8-12年级的正规教育上，但这一伙伴关系也通过博物馆、水族馆和自然中心等额外场所教育大学教师和所有年龄段的学生，接触到广泛的学习者。通过持续的评估，该伙伴关系正在不断改进向马里兰州和特拉华州的学生提供气候变化教育的方式，从这一伙伴关系中吸取的经验教训正在帮助制定可应用于全国其他地方的教育模式。由特拉华州核心机构和马里兰州大学系统的教师领导，包括特拉华州大学、特拉华州州立大学、马里兰大学、学院公园、马里兰大学环境科学中心和道森大学；以及马里兰州和特拉华州教育部和马里兰州公共电视台。很明显，这是各州相似的自然环境和气候以及它们在教育改革和应对气候变化方面的积极做法的结果。通过教育研究人员和实践者、区域科学家和科学机构以及州和联邦政府机构的有组织的参与，明确了具体的目标和目的。这些项目的四个主要目标是：(1)通过让科学界与教育工作者合作，将气候变化概念灌输到教育的各个方面；(2)通过教师教育和专业发展，为气候变化教育建立可持续的基础设施；(3)吸取更广泛的研究和评估经验教训，根据当地的社会文化多样性，创建可应用于其他地区的气候教育模式；以及(4)在马里兰州-特拉华州及其他地区推进气候变化教育的有效做法。明确支持开发和分发将气候变化科学与课堂和校外教学机会相结合的教学战略、资源和材料。该伙伴关系还促进了对气候相关教学模式的研究，最终有助于制定以证据为基础的教育方法和教学实践，加深教师知识和学生对气候科学的理解。明确的是，通过在当地环境中培养更多的气候变化意识，将马里兰州和特拉华州的公民与他们生活的世界联系起来。该伙伴关系使居民能够考虑他们个人和集体选择的影响，这些选择可以限制气候变化的幅度并适应其后果。通过上述四个总体目标，教科文组织明确表示正在马里兰州和特拉华州建设与气候有关的教育的持久能力，并成为适应和应对不同教学环境的社会文化多样性的综合性气候变化教育的国家典范。该伙伴关系正在开发考虑到气候学习进展的新的专业发展模式，有助于更好地理解循证实践如何提高气候变化教与学实践的效率。该项目是通过气候变化教育伙伴关系(CCEP)计划资助的六个第二阶段项目之一。CCEP计划是NSF气候变化教育计划的一部分，该计划是在2009财年通过国会拨款建立的。CCEP计划是NSF的一项一次性努力，旨在建立一个协调的国家网络，由基于区域或主题的合作伙伴关系组成，致力于增加对与气候变化科学及其影响有关的有效、高质量教育计划和资源的采用。CCEP组合包括一项主要的跨学科研究和开发工作，旨在促进对气候系统科学以及气候变化对自然和人类系统的影响的更深入了解和参与。该计划的愿景是一个具有科学素养的社会，能够在面对未来挑战时有效地权衡有关全球气候变化的证据，同时准备创新的科学和技术劳动力，以提高我们对人类-气候相互作用的了解，并为可持续、繁荣的未来开发方法。每个CCEP都需要在正式或非正式的学习环境中纳入气候科学家、学习科学家和教育从业者的专业知识之间的创新合作，以研究、设计和测试新的模型和战略，以有效地教授和学习气候科学。CCEP项目专注于跨学科方法和变革性的影响规模，在与气候科学教育和劳动力发展相关的联邦投资组合中占据着独特和互补的利基市场。

The Maryland-Delaware Climate Change Education, Assessment, and Research partnership (MADE CLEAR) is building a sustainable infrastructure for effective and relevant climate change education within a two-state region. While MADE CLEAR focuses on formal education in grades 8-12, the partnership also reaches a broad spectrum of learners by educating teachers at universities and students of all ages through additional venues such as museums, aquaria, and nature centers. Through ongoing evaluation, the partnership is continuously improving how climate change education is delivered to students in Maryland and Delaware, and the lessons learned from this partnership are helping to craft education models that can be applied in other locations across the country. MADE CLEAR is led by faculty members at core institutions in Delaware and the University System of Maryland, including the University of Delaware, Delaware State University, the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, and Towson University; as well as the Maryland and Delaware Departments of Education and Maryland Public Television. MADE CLEAR is an outgrowth of the states' similar natural environments and climates, and their active approaches to education reform and climate change responsiveness. MADE CLEAR approaches specific goals and objectives through the structured engagement of educational researchers and practitioners, regional scientists and scientific institutions, and state and federal government agencies. The projects' four primary goals are: (1) infuse climate change concepts in all aspects of education by engaging the scientific community in collaboration with educators; (2) build sustainable infrastructure for climate change education through teacher education and professional development; (3) draw broader lessons about research and assessment to create climate education models that can be applied in other regions based on the local socio-cultural diversity; and (4) advance effective practice of climate change education in the Maryland-Delaware region and beyond. MADE CLEAR is supporting the development and distribution of teaching strategies, resources, and materials that integrate climate change science with classroom and out-of-school teaching and learning opportunities. The partnership is also promoting research on climate-related teaching and learning formats, ultimately helping to craft evidence-based educational approaches and instructional practices that deepen teacher knowledge and student understanding of climate science. MADE CLEAR is connecting Maryland and Delaware citizens with the world in which they live by fostering greater awareness of climate change in the local environment. The partnership empowers residents to consider the impacts of their individual and collective choices that can limit the magnitude of climate change and adapt to its consequences. Through the four overarching goals outlined above, MADE CLEAR is building an enduring capacity for climate-relevant education in Maryland and Delaware, and serves as a national model for comprehensive climate change education that is adaptable and responsive to the socio-cultural diversity of different teaching settings. The partnership is developing new models of professional development that account for climate learning progressions, contributing to a greater understanding of how evidence-based practices improve the efficacy of climate change teaching and learning practices. This project is one of six Phase II projects being funded through the Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP) program. The CCEP program was developed as part of the NSF Climate Change Education program, established through Congressional appropriations in FY 2009. The CCEP program is a one-time, dedicated NSF effort to establish a coordinated national network of regionally- or thematically-based partnerships devoted to increasing the adoption of effective, high quality educational programs and resources related to the science of climate change and its impacts. The CCEP portfolio encompasses a major interdisciplinary research and development effort designed to promote deeper understanding of, and engagement with, climate system science and the impacts of climate change on natural and human systems. The vision of this program is a scientifically literate society that can effectively weigh the evidence regarding global climate change as it confronts the challenges ahead, while preparing the innovative scientific and technical workforce to advance our knowledge of human-climate interactions and develop approaches for a sustainable, prosperous future. Each CCEP is required to incorporate innovative collaborations among expertise of climate scientists, learning scientists, and education practitioners in either formal or informal learning environments to research, design, and test new models and strategies for effective teaching and learning about climate science. With its focus on interdisciplinary approaches and transformative scales of impact, the CCEP program occupies a unique and complementary niche in the portfolio of Federal investments related to climate science education and workforce development.