RIT/NazEd Tech2Teach: Developing Institutional Commitment to STEM Teacher Preparation

这个能力建设项目为学习助理（LA）项目奠定了基础，以吸引有才华的STEM本科生从事中等教育。洛杉矶项目由科罗拉多大学博尔德分校开发，结合了课堂教学经验、直接教师指导和关于人们如何学习的科学的正式指导，极大地提高了学生对中学教学事业的兴趣。该项目采取了全面的方法：吸引罗切斯特理工学院（RIT）的本科STEM专业学生，通过拿撒勒罗切斯特学院提供Tech2Teach途径获得中等教育认证，并与现有的高中教师团体建立联系，以提供持续的支持。该项目有三个具体目标。1 .透过以同侪小组为目标的工作坊，教育及促进教师的发展。2 .开发关键基础设施，包括在线资源和一门新的教育学课程，并实施LA计划；扩大和加强与拿撒勒学院教育学院（Tech2Teach）和当地罗切斯特地区物理教师外展（RAPTOR）的现有合作。这个项目的广泛影响在于，大量的教师和学生直接受到拟议活动的影响。RIT的物理系、生物系、化学系和数学系目前有136名教师和853个本科专业。通过一种创新的社会网络分析方法来确定教学同伴群体，该项目让70多名教师参加了发展讲习班和研讨会，为他们在洛杉矶项目中指导学生做准备。在各有关部门的大力支持下，这项计划惠及了400多名学生，让他们认识到从事中学教育的可能性。第二年，将启动一个洛杉矶项目，将16名学生与教师导师配对，在STEM课程中影响多达500名学生。

This capacity building project is laying the foundation for a Learning Assistant (LA) program to attract talented STEM undergraduates to careers in secondary education. The LA program, developed at the University of Colorado-Boulder, combines classroom teaching experience, directed faculty mentorship, and formal instruction on the science of how people learn to dramatically increase student interest in secondary teaching careers. This project is taking a comprehensive approach: attracting undergraduate STEM majors at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), providing a path, Tech2Teach, through Nazareth College of Rochester to certification in secondary education, and developing connections with existing high school teacher groups to provide continuing support. The project has three specific goals1. to educate and facilitate faculty development through peer group targeted workshops,2. to develop critical infrastructure, including online resources and a new course on pedagogy, and implement an LA program, and3. to extend and enhance existing collaborations with Nazareth College's School of Education (Tech2Teach) and the local Rochester Area Physics Teacher Out-Reach (RAPTOR).The broad impact of this project lies in the large number of faculty and students directly affected by the proposed activities. The physics, biology, chemistry, and mathematics departments at RIT currently include 136 faculty and 853 undergraduate majors. Through an innovative social network analysis approach that identifies teaching peer groups, the project is involving more than 70 faculty in development workshops and seminars to prepare them to mentor students in the LA program. Deep support from all involved departments is enabling the project to reach more than 400 students, educating them about the possibilities of a career in secondary education. In the second year, an LA program will be initiated that will pair 16 students with faculty mentors in classes that affect up to 500 students in STEM classes.