Collaborative Project: Workshops and Learning Communities for Physics and Astronomy Faculty

这是一个合作项目，涉及美国物理教师协会(应获奖-1431638)、杨百翰大学(应获奖1431454)、马里兰大学帕克分校(应获奖1431681)和科罗拉多大学博尔德分校(应获奖1431779)。大多数新的学院和大学STEM教员在开始他们的第一个教学任务时几乎没有有效的教学方法的经验。因此，当学生似乎没有学到教员认为他们在教授的东西时，他们和他们的学生经常感到沮丧。为了解决物理学和天文学中的这一问题，美国物理教师协会、美国天文学会和美国物理学会提议在前一系列讲习班所学知识的基础上，继续成功地举办一系列以有效教学为重点的物理学和天文学系讲习班。在新的五年计划期间，研讨会将与大约900名四年制学院和大学教职员工(约占美国物理和天文学新聘用终身教职员工的50%)合作，他们每年总共教授超过10万名学生。研讨会计划将增加三个新的组成部分：(1)针对更资深教师的一套永久性的有经验的教师研讨会；(2)一系列虚拟教师学习社区(FLC)，它将在研讨会参与者实施互动参与式教学方法时为他们提供指导和反馈；以及(3)一个研究方案，侧重于实施《可持续发展战略》的最有效方式，并对讲习班本身发展更系统的了解。第(2)项和第(3)项将直接针对教师在考虑使用新的教学方法时出现的“实施衰退”。几乎所有STEM教员研讨会都记录了这种情况。尽管目前的物理和天文学讲习班成功地发展了关于有效教学法的知识及其有效性的证据，并激励参与者实施这些教学法，但评估也表明，教职员工并不总是坚持实施这些教学法。新项目的目的是加强落实学员在讲习班上学到的知识，并增加有关物理学和天文学教师有效的教学专业发展的知识基础。同样的方法应该广泛适用于其他STEM学科的教职员工。该项目由四个NSF项目共同资助：*改善本科STEM教育(IUSE)，教育和人力资源局本科教育司；*历史上的黑人学院和大学-本科计划(HBCU-UP)，教育和人力资源局人力资源发展司；*教育和跨学科研究(EIR)，数学和物理科学局物理司；以及*教育和特殊项目(ESP)，数学和物理科学局天文科学司。

This is a collaborative project involving the American Association of Physics Teachers (Award DUE-1431638), Brigham Young University (Award DUE-1431454), the University of Maryland at College Park (Award DUE-1431681), and the University of Colorado at Boulder (Award DUE-1431779).Most new college and university STEM faculty members begin their first teaching assignments with little or no experience with methods of effective pedagogy. Consequently, both they and their students are often frustrated when the students do not seem to learn what the faculty members think they are teaching. To address this problem in physics and astronomy, the American Association of Physics Teachers, the American Astronomical Society, and the American Physical Society propose to continue a successful series of Physics and Astronomy Faculty Workshops focusing on effective pedagogy, building on what has been learned during the previous series of workshops. During the course of the new five-year project, the workshops will work with about 900 four-year college and university faculty members (about 50% of the new tenure-track hires in physics and astronomy in the United States), who collectively teach more than 100,000 students each year.Three new components will be added to the program of workshops: (1) a permanent set of Experienced Faculty Workshops aimed at more senior faculty members; (2) a series of virtual Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs), which will provide coaching and feedback for the workshop participants as they implement interactive-engagement teaching methods; and (3) a research program focusing on the most effective ways to implement the FLCs and developing a more systematic understanding of the workshops themselves. Items (2) and (3) will directly address the "implementation dip" that occurs for faculty considering the use of new pedagogy. The dip has been documented in almost all STEM faculty workshops. Although the current physics and astronomy workshops have been successful in developing knowledge about effective pedagogy and the evidence for its effectiveness, and in inspiring the participants to implement those pedagogies, the evaluations also show that the faculty members are not always persistent in implementing those pedagogies. The new project is designed to enhance the implementation of what the participants learn in the workshops and to add to the knowledge base of what constitutes effective pedagogical professional development for physics and astronomy faculty. The same methods should be broadly applicable to faculty members in other STEM disciplines.This project is being jointly funded by four NSF programs:* Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE), Division of Undergraduate Education, Directorate for Education and Human Resources;* Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP), Division of Human Resource Development, Directorate for Education and Human Resources;* Education and Interdisciplinary Research (EIR), Division of Physics, Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences; and* Education and Special Programs (ESP), Division of Astronomical Sciences, Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences.