Faculty Seminars on the Improvement of Teaching in the STEM Disciplines

科学教育工作者受益于专业发展，以了解和实施循证教学实践。为此，独立学院理事会将于2019年7月15日至19日在加利福尼亚州奥克兰召开STEM教育学研讨会。来自十所独立学院的团队将参加研讨会，研究学生如何学习，并制定能够改善其机构STEM学习的教学实践。三名经验丰富的STEM教员将担任研讨会的主持人，帮助与会者开展整合循证实践的活动，然后在本国机构实施。STEM教育学研讨会旨在传播诺贝尔奖获得者卡尔·威曼为改善STEM教与学而提出的想法。来自十所独立学院的教职员工和管理人员团队将参加研讨会，他们将在制定学习目标和评估本国院校课程的活动时，探索学习心理、学生动机和刻意练习。研讨会活动将被记录下来，并将材料分发给独立学院理事会的656个成员机构，以进一步向小型独立学院传播循证教学实践。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。

Science educators benefit from professional development to learn about and implement evidence-based teaching practices. To this end, the Council of Independent Colleges is convening a Seminar on STEM Pedagogy, to be held July 15-19, 2019 in Oakland, California. Teams from ten independent colleges will attend the seminar to study how students learn and to develop teaching practices that can improve STEM learning at their institutions. Three highly experienced STEM faculty members will serve as facilitators for the seminar to help participants develop activities integrating evidence-based practices that they will then implement at their home institutions.The Seminar in STEM Pedagogy seeks to disseminate ideas developed by Nobel prize-winner Carl Wieman for improving STEM teaching and learning. Teams of faculty and administrators from ten independent colleges will participate in the seminar where they will explore the psychology of learning, student motivation, and deliberate practice as they develop learning goals and assessment activities for courses at their home institutions. Seminar activities will be recorded and materials disseminated to the 656 member institutions of the Council of Independent Colleges to further spread evidence-based teaching practices to small independent colleges.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.