FMCC TECH-Lane NSF ATE Project

创造职业和技术教育途径来发展我们的中等技能劳动力需要在初中和高中阶段有创造性的策略。TECH-Lane项目通过招募和帮助有动力但代表性不足、有风险的八年级和大学早期高中生，扩大了STEM学生的渠道。该项目加速学生从高中到大学进入半导体/纳米技术工作场所。TECH-Lane利用教育机构（高中、两年制和四年制大学）和地区高科技产业之间的合作伙伴关系，利用基于项目的学习（PBL）和职业与技术教育的整合，创建了专注于创新和变革教学的课程。可复制的、加速的大学早期高中电气技术课程，针对八年级学生的为期一周的STEM夏令营课程，以及针对PBL的设计、交付和整合的高中STEM教师的专业发展研讨会正在开发中。该项目的智力价值在于对国家重要领域的劳动力准备的集中影响。美国各地正在建立技术大学早期高中，以满足全国对训练有素的高科技劳动力的需求。基于项目的学习模式已被证明在复制现实世界的工作场所问题和教会学生批判性和创造性地思考来解决这些问题方面非常有效。TECH-Lane与这些倡议保持一致，为学生提供加速途径，为高中STEM教师提供PBL培训。TECH-Lane课程通过详细的专著和项目网站广泛传播，允许全国的早期大学高中/社区大学社区复制这一模式，并帮助满足21世纪工作场所对高科技工人的需求。传播工作和复制拟议方案的能力是更广泛的重大影响之一。

Creating career and technical education pathways to develop our middle skills workforce requires creative strategies in the middle and high school years. The TECH-Lane project is expanding the STEM student pipeline by recruiting and assisting motivated but underrepresented, at-risk 8th grade and early college high school students. The project accelerates students from high school, through college and into the semiconductor/nanotechnology workplace. Using partnerships between educational institutions (high school, 2-year and 4-year colleges) and regional high technology industries, TECH-Lane is creating curriculum focused on innovative and transformative instruction using project-based learning (PBL) and integration of career and technical education. Replicable, accelerated early college high school courses in Electrical Technology, a one week summer STEM camp curriculum for 8th grade students and professional development workshops for high school STEM faculty in the design, delivery and incorporation of PBL are being developed. The intellectual merit of the project lies in the focused impact on workforce preparation in an area of national importance. Technical early college high schools are being established across the U.S. to answer the nationwide need for a well-trained high technology workforce. Project based learning models have been shown to be highly effective in replicating real-world workplace problems and teaching students to think critically and creatively to solve them. TECH-Lane is aligning with these initiatives by providing accelerated pathways for students and PBL training for their high school STEM teachers. The TECH-Lane curriculum, disseminated widely through a detailed monograph and a project website, allows the early college high school/community college community across the nation to duplicate this model and assist in filling the need for high-tech workers ready for the 21st century workplace. Dissemination efforts and the ability to replicate the proposed program are among the significant broader impacts.