Enhancing Student Success in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics by Transforming the Faculty Culture

该项目正在启动教师文化和行为的变革，涉及生物，化学和物理部门内部和跨部门的教学和学习。 该项目的成功正在判断和指导，从而加强学生的学习和提高成功完成这三个部门的八个看门人课程。关键的过程是协调活动，将鼓励和支持在这些学科的教师教师广泛收集利用研究为基础的教学策略在他们的教学这些较低的司课程的全方位。 个别参与教师教师选择和调整自己的研究为基础的战略。 通过这种方式，他们直接参与了教师文化的这一关键方面。两个大学资源在支持这一变化方面尤为重要。 技术指导和援助由各部门的教学联络员提供。 TLLs是每个部门内的教师，他们接受过特殊培训，并准备鼓励和支持部门和个别教师，因为他们越来越多地将基于研究的教学策略纳入8门看门人课程的核心。 第二，一个独特的教师发展组件正在由中心的教学和学习的增强（CET L）提供支持，既为教学和学习联络（TLLs）和个别教师。这个项目正在进行与教务长（谁是PI），艺术和科学的院长，和三个部门负责人的全力支持。正在详细制定变革战略，这些战略将对具体部门内的当地环境作出不同和适当的反应。总的来说，这些努力将提供越来越多的支持性环境，或者从更广泛的角度来看，一个越来越多的支持性生态系统，这将是可持续增加和越来越有效地使用基于研究的教学策略的基础。一系列评估将指导和改善这一努力的影响，并提供关于这一变革方法有效性的有用研究知识。

This project is initiating transformative change in the faculty culture and behavior regarding teaching and learning within and across the departments of Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. The success of this project is being judged and guided by the resulting enhanced student learning and improved success in completing eight gatekeeper courses in these three departments. The key processes are coordinated activities that will encourage and support a broad collection of faculty instructors in these disciplines to utilize the full breadth of research-based instructional strategies in their teaching of these lower division courses. Individual participating faculty instructors are choosing and adapting their own research-based strategies. In this way they are participating directly in this key aspect of faculty culture. Two university resources are particularly important in supporting this change. Technical guidance and assistance are being provided by departmental Teaching and Learning Liaisons (TLLs). The TLLs are faculty members within each department who have received special training and are prepared to encourage and support the department and individual faculty members as they increasingly incorporate research-based instructional strategies into a core of 8 gatekeeper courses. Secondly, a unique faculty development component is being tailored by the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CET&L) to provide support both for the Teaching and Learning Liaisons (TLLs) and for individual faculty. This project is proceeding with the full support of the Provost (who is a PI), the Dean of Arts and Sciences, and the three department heads. Change strategies are being detailed that will respond differently and appropriately for the local environments found within specific departments. Collectively these efforts will provide increasingly supportive environments or, viewed more broadly, an increasingly supportive ecosystem that will be the foundation for sustainable increased and increasingly effective use of research based instructional strategies. A series of assessments will guide and improve the impact of this effort, and provide useful research knowledge about the effectiveness of this approach to change.