Preparing Future Faculty to Improve STEM Education: Broadening the National Impact of the CIRTL Network

研究、教学和学习整合中心(CIRTL)通过有目的地发展未来的STEM教员，为STEM本科教育的长期改进做出贡献。CIRTL塑造未来国家STEM教师的战略杠杆是教与学中的研究生和博士后准备。CIRTL提供系统和有重点的专业发展，以培养未来在循证教学方面的专业知识。三个核心理念--教学即研究、学习共同体和通过多样性学习--以及一套详细的相关学习成果为所有CIRTL活动提供了概念框架。研究已经确定了这种方法的有效性。特别是，有经验证据表明，基于这些理念的教学专业发展具有积极的长期影响。2016年夏天，CIRTL网络扩展到美国40多所研究型大学--CIRTL机构数量翻了一番。该项目由一系列举措组成，旨在提高未来教师专业发展在教学中的影响力和广泛部署。这些举措在两个战略方向上开展工作：1.增加每个CIRTL网络大学未来教员的参与人数；2.将CIRTL机会扩大到CIRTL网络之外的未来教员。为了增加CIRTL网络中未来教员的参与人数，CIRTL将开发和评估一套新的基于队列的学习社区：i)化学、工程、生命科学和统计学的学科学习社区；ii)教学助理学习社区；以及iii)博士后学习社区。这些服务将在本地和在线两种方式运行。为了将机会扩展到CIRTL网络之外的未来教师，CIRTL将开发和评估：i)在线NSF研究生研究员学习社区；以及ii)与八个专业协会在未来教师发展方面的合作伙伴关系。CIRTL还将通过开发和评估CIRTL校友网络，为其校友为CIRTL使命做出贡献搭建新的桥梁。这些新举措的长期目标是每年在CIRTL网络中培养8000多名STEM未来教师，并将机会扩大到网络之外的更多人。

The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) contributes to long-term improvement in STEM undergraduate education through the purposeful development of the future STEM faculty. The strategic leverage point by which CIRTL shapes the future national STEM faculty is graduate and postdoctoral preparation in teaching and learning. CIRTL provides systematic and focused professional development to build future faculty expertise in evidence-based teaching. Three core ideas - teaching-as-research, learning communities, and learning through diversity - and a detailed set of associated learning outcomes provide the conceptual framework for all CIRTL activities. Research has established the efficacy of this approach. In particular, there is empirical evidence of the positive long-term impact of teaching professional development based on these ideas. In Summer 2016 the CIRTL Network expanded to more than 40 research universities in the United States - a doubling of the earlier number of CIRTL institutions. This project is comprised of an integrated portfolio of initiatives for increased impact and widespread deployment of future faculty professional development in teaching. The initiatives work in two strategic directions:1. increase the number of future faculty participating at each CIRTL Network university;2. extend CIRTL opportunities to future faculty beyond the CIRTL Network.To increase the number of future faculty participants within the CIRTL Network, CIRTL will develop and evaluate a set of new cohort-based learning communities: i) disciplinary learning communities in chemistry, engineering, life sciences and statistics; ii) teaching assistant learning communities; and iii) postdoctoral learning communities. These will operate both locally and online. To extend opportunities to future faculty beyond the CIRTL Network, CIRTL will develop and evaluate: i) an online NSF Graduate Research Fellow learning community; and ii) partnerships in future faculty development with eight professional societies. CIRTL will also build new bridges for its alumni to contribute to the CIRTL mission by developing and evaluating a CIRTL Alumni Network. These new initiatives have the long-term goal of preparing more than 8,000 STEM future faculty annually in the CIRTL Network, and to extend opportunities to many more beyond the Network.