TeachEngineering: Democratizing Access to Engineering Education for K-12 Teachers

位于博尔德的科罗拉多大学的TeachEngineering（TE）数字图书馆在K-12工程教育界享有盛誉，是经过课堂测试、基于标准、实践课程的高质量教师资源。作为来自约70个工程资助者的原创K-12工程课程的传播者，免费集合每年被320万主要教师用户访问，实现20%以上的年增长率。1，700多个TeachEngineering课程，活动和制造商挑战支持教师在课堂上满足NGSS工程组件（以及其他科学和数学标准），并旨在由非工程师教授，每月添加易于遵循的操作视频。该项目服务于国家的根本利益：加强广泛的STEM扫盲，提高普通民众对工程师工作的认识，吸引越来越多的不同学生进入工程领域，培养青年人的抱负，并建立学术基础，为国家的经济未来提供动力。拟议的战略性TE系统增强，扩大较低的基础设计课程（新的K-2重点），进一步以用户为中心的研究，扩大重点，提供混合教师专业发展，把“E”在干，和加强营销确保TeachEngineering的持续相关性和可持续性。TeachEngineering（TE）的总体目标数字图书馆是通过广泛使用其课程集合为所有年轻人推出体验式终身STEM机会，使工程教育民主化-这是一种免费的K-12教育资源，强调所有学习者的设计思维和工程思维习惯。标准一致，以设计为中心，动手工程活动依赖于现成的，廉价的，简单的材料。项目活动包括新工具、实践和营销策略，以培养一个吸引教师参与的实践社区。TE团队将与主要的工程教育实体建立合作伙伴关系，成为K-12工程设计课程的首选资源，并为K-12教师创建混合工程设计专业发展培训，以便任何工程学院或学区都可以提供实践设计教育。创建新的方法将使TE课程与下一代科学标准（NGSS）更加一致，使所有K-12教育工作者甚至新手，非STEM教师更容易使用TE课程。最后，为了创造以公平为中心的入学途径，并支持全国全日制幼儿园运动，TeachEngineering将促进更新的课程和营销重点，加强K-12工程生态系统的“K-2”组成部分。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

The TeachEngineering (TE) digital library at the University of Colorado at Boulder has a reputation in the K-12 engineering education community as a high-quality teacher resource of classroom-tested, standards-based, hands-on curricula. As the disseminator of original K-12 engineering curricula from ~70 engineering grantees, the free collection is accessed by 3.2M mostly-teacher users annually, realizing 20%+ annual growth. The 1,700+ TeachEngineering lessons, activities and maker challenges support teachers in meeting the NGSS engineering components (as well as other science and math standards) in their classrooms and are designed to be taught by non-engineers with easy-to-follow, how-to videos being added monthly. The project serves fundamental national interests: strengthening widespread STEM literacy, increasing the general population's awareness of what engineers do, attracting more and more diverse students to the engineering field, cultivating youth ambitions, and building an academic foundation to fuel the nation's economic future. The proposed strategic TE system enhancements, expansion of lower elementary design-based curricula (new K-2 focus), further user-centered research, a broadened emphasis on providing blended teacher professional development that puts the "E" in STEM, and enhanced marketing ensure TeachEngineering's ongoing relevance and sustainability.The overarching goal of the TeachEngineering (TE) digital library is to democratize engineering education by launching experiential lifelong STEM opportunities for all youth through pervasive usage of its curricular collection-a free K-12 educator resource that emphasizes design thinking and engineering habits of mind with all learners. The standards-aligned, design-focused, hands-on engineering activities rely upon readily available, inexpensive, and simple materials. Project activities include new tools, practices and marketing strategies to cultivate a community of practice to engage teachers. The TE team will forge partnerships with major engineering-education entities to become the go-to resource for K-12 engineering design curricula and to create blended engineering design professional development training for K-12 teachers so that any engineering college or school district can offer the hands-on design education. Creating new methodologies will enable deeper alignment of TE curricula to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), making the use of TE curricula easier for all K-12 educators' even novice, non-STEM teachers. Finally, to create equity-focused access pathways and support the national full-day kindergarten movement, TeachEngineering will promote a renewed curriculum and marketing focus that strengthens the "K-2" component of the K-12 engineering ecosystem.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.