RET Site: Teaching Engineering & Design Innovation

美国对更强大、更多样化的工程管道的需求是毋庸置疑的。随着时间的推移，许多研究表明，当K-12学生有机会学习工程学时，他们对数学和科学的投入和理解会增加。科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)教师希望并被下一代科学标准(NGSS)要求将工程概念和能力纳入他们的课程，无论他们教授的是什么科目。然而，只有一小部分人完成了工程学课程。因此，面临的挑战是让STEM教师接触到工程研究及其潜在的应用，并提供一个向他们的课程注入创新的工程和设计概念和实践的过程。斯坦福大学新的教学工程设计与创新(TEDI)项目正面解决了这一挑战。TEDI将向来自旧金山湾区学区的38名教师和10,000名学生展示科学和数学内容知识和设计思维(DT)如何为困难的工程设计挑战提供解决方案。TEDI的主要目标是通过让教师练习工程并使用DT为他们的学生创建创新和令人兴奋的课程，来提高湾区高中学生对工程的兴趣和对STEM的熟练程度。TEDI模式的主要内容包括为期8周的教师安置到斯坦福大学工程研究实验室；每周举办研讨会，让他们接触一系列工程学科和DT练习；在斯坦福大学暑期之前或之后为教师提供有偿的行业实习；以及帮助开发和传播新课程，供他们自己的学生和其他人使用。在加州所有K-12年级的学生中，超过60%是西班牙裔、非裔美国人、土著美国人或太平洋岛民群体，他们在STEM中的比例历来较低，62%的学生有资格享受免费和廉价的餐饮，TEDI教育和支持来自加州资源最不足的一些学校的不同学生进入STEM渠道并在STEM管道中茁壮成长，成为未来的科学和技术劳动力，为我们国家的经济和全球竞争力做出贡献。RET网站：教授工程设计与放大；创新(TEDI)在旧金山湾区高中STEM教师、斯坦福大学教师和研究生以及产业界之间建立了持久的合作伙伴关系，专注于关键工程和设计技能，推动美国的创新和全球竞争力。TEDI创建了一个重振和重组的教学“基础设施”，为高中教育工作者做好准备和激励，有效地引导他们的学生走向与工程和设计相关的大专学习和职业生涯。TEDI的主要目标是促进旧金山湾区高中生对工程的兴趣和对STEM的熟练程度。这个综合卓越中心将在三年内培养38名教师的能力，并通过他们向10,000多名学生介绍工程学科、设计思维过程以及科学和数学课程与关键工程概念的联系和支持方式。TEDI将提供：1)在斯坦福大学工程实验室进行为期8周的真实暑期研究体验；2)广泛的设计思维研讨会，并接触一系列工程学科和应用；3)在斯坦福大学为选定的参与者提供暑期前后的行业实习；4)协助开发包含设计挑战的课程；5)通过一项严格的形成性和终结性研究来评估项目的有效性，该研究衡量了TEDI对教师和学生的中长期影响；以及6)通过各种社区网站传播新的课程和教材，专业发展，以及教师出席著名的国家会议。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The need for a more robust and diverse engineering pipeline in the U.S. is incontrovertible. Many studies over time indicate that when K-12 students have the opportunity to study engineering, their engagement in and understanding of math and science increases. Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) teachers want and are required by the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) to incorporate engineering concepts and capabilities into their curriculum, regardless of the subjects they teach. Yet, only a fraction have completed engineering coursework. The challenge, then, is to expose STEM teachers to engineering research and its potential applications and provide a process for infusing their curriculum with innovative engineering and design concepts and practices. Stanford's new Teaching Engineering Design & Innovation (TEDI) program addresses this challenge head on. TEDI will expose 38 teachers and 10,000 students from school districts in the San Francisco Bay Area to the ways science and math content knowledge and Design Thinking (DT) provide solutions to difficult engineering design challenges. TEDI's primary goal is to promote interest in engineering and proficiency in STEM among Bay Area high school students by having teachers practice engineering and use DT to create innovative and exciting curriculum for their students. The major elements of the TEDI model include 8-week teacher placements into Stanford engineering research laboratories; weekly workshops exposing them to a range of engineering disciplines and DT exercises; paid industry placements for teachers before or after a summer at Stanford; and assistance in developing and disseminating new curriculum for use with their own students and others. At a time when over 60% of all California K-12 students are Hispanic, African American, Native American or Pacific Islander groups historically under-represented in STEM and 62% are eligible for free and reduced-price meals, TEDI educates and supports diverse students from some of California's most under-resourced schools to enter and thrive in the STEM pipeline, becoming the scientific and technical workforce of tomorrow and contributing to our nation's economy and global competitiveness.The RET Site: Teaching Engineering Design & Innovation (TEDI) creates enduring partnerships between San Francisco Bay Area high school STEM teachers, Stanford faculty and graduate students, and industry to focus on critical engineering and design skills that drive U.S. innovation and global competitiveness. TEDI creates a revitalized and retooled teaching "infrastructure" that prepares and invigorates high school educators to effectively guide their students toward engineering- and design-related post-secondary study and careers. TEDI's primary goal is to promote interest in engineering and proficiency in STEM among high school students in the San Francisco Bay Area. This integrated center of excellence will build capacity in 38 teachers and, through them, more than 10,000 students over three years, introducing them to engineering disciplines, the design thinking process, and the ways science and math curricula relate to and support key engineering concepts. TEDI will provide: 1) 8-week authentic summer research experiences in Stanford engineering labs; 2) Extensive workshops in Design Thinking and exposure to a range of engineering disciplines and applications; 3) Industry placements before or after a summer at Stanford for selected participants; 4) Assistance in developing curriculum that incorporates a design challenge; 5) Assessment of the program's effectiveness through a rigorous formative and summative study that measures the intermediate- and long-term effects of TEDI on teachers and their students; and 6) Dissemination of new lessons and teaching materials via various community websites, professional development, and teacher attendance at a prestigious national conference.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.