Plates for Education - UK

“教育板块-英国”项目旨在激励中学物理教师和他们的学生，为他们提供一个真正的研究设备（一个来自新墨西哥州斯隆望远镜的光纤“插头板”），供他们使用，并为他们提供研究前沿天文调查数据的资源。通过为教师提供终身专业学习课程（苏格兰的CLPL，在英格兰和威尔士更被称为持续专业发展，CPD），该项目旨在吸引至少200名物理教师，并通过他们至少6000名中学生：-提高教师对特定学科的信心-使教师能够将更多现实世界的科学研究带入课堂-提高物理教师的自我效能感，提高他们作为物理学家的认同感，提高他们的幸福感。从而有助于提高这一职业的员工保留率-让中学生参与独特的研究，并在他们学校的“一片天空”中创造一种归属感-提高学生对研究科学的认识，改善他们对科学的态度我们的目标受众是中学物理教师（苏格兰的S1-S6，英格兰的7-13年级）和他们的学生。中学物理教师倾向于在他们的职业生涯中教授不同层次的课程，而这些资源并不针对特定的课程水平。相反，他们的目标是将课程项目（如黑体辐射定律、平方反比定律、绘图、红移、哈勃定律、讲故事等等）与真实的研究数据和每所学校独特的科学仪器结合起来。一旦教师适应了这个模板和这些资源，他们就希望这些资源能够嵌入到他们的实践中，并在教师的职业生涯中多次使用。我们的初步评估表明，这也是老师们的意图——例如，在我们2019年的一次评估中，一位老师说：“总的来说，这是一场精彩的活动，激励我尽可能多地将其纳入L&T的各个阶段。”教师和学校的招聘将优先考虑社会经济落后的地区以及地理上偏远的地区，这两个地区在科学领域的代表性不足。该项目旨在让教师将这项工作的方法和理念融入到他们的实践中，这样项目的遗产将超出学生的初始受众，包括：-教师在整个职业生涯中训练有素，有动力和信心将研究科学带入课堂-中学物理系的盘子，经常用于课堂学习-资源公开共享，供任何物理教师使用。

The 'Plates for Education - UK' project aims to inspire secondary Physics teachers and their pupils by providing them with a genuine piece of research equipment (an optical-fibre 'plug plate' from the Sloan Telescope in New Mexico) for them to work with, and resources for them to investigate cutting-edge astronomical survey data. By providing teachers with career-long professional learning sessions (CLPL in Scotland, better known as continuing professional development, CPD, in England and Wales), the project aims to engage at least 200 teachers of Physics and through them at least 6,000 secondary school pupils, to: - Increase teachers' subject-specific confidence - Enable teachers to bring more real-world science research into the classroom - Improve the self-efficacy of teachers of Physics, their sense of identity as physicists, and their well-being, thus contributing to an improved rate of staff-retention in this career - Engage secondary pupils with a unique research artefact and create a sense of ownership over their school's "patch of sky" - Increase pupils' awareness of research science and improve their attitudes towards science Our target audience is composed of secondary school teachers of Physics (S1-S6 in Scotland, Year 7-13 in England) and their pupils. Secondary Physics teachers tend to teach at different levels throughout their career, and the resources are not aimed at a specific curriculum level. Rather, they aim to contextualise curriculum items (such as blackbody radiation law, inverse-square law, plotting and graphing, redshift, Hubble law, storytelling, and more) with real research data and a scientific apparatus that is unique to each school. Once a teacher is comfortable with the plate and the resources, it is hoped the resources will become imbedded in their practice, and resorted to multiple times throughout the teacher's career. Our preliminary evaluation suggests that is the intention of teachers too - e.g. one teacher in one of our 2019 evaluations stated "Overall a fantastic event which has energised me to include this in as many stages of L&T as possible". Recruitment of teachers and schools will prioritise socioeconomically deprived areas as well as geographically remote areas, both of which are underrepresented in science. The project aims for the teachers to embed the methods and ideas of this work into their practice, so that the legacy of the project beyond the initial audience of pupils will include: - Teachers trained, motivated and confident to bring research science into the classroom throughout their career - Plates in secondary school Physics departments, being regularly used for classroom learning - Resources shared publicly for any Physics teachers to use.