FIRST II Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching Through Field Stations

FIRST II 通过实地站改革科学教学的学院

• 批准号: 0088847
• 负责人: Janet Hodder
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oregon Eugene
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-04-15 至 2008-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0088847&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FIRST; II; Faculty; Institutes; Reforming

Biological Sciences (61) The Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching project (FIRST I) enabled 92 faculty teaching 322 courses at 27 colleges and universities to use active, inquiry-based science teaching, thus providing more opportunities for all students to gain scientific understanding. We are expanding FIRST I into a national dissemination project, called FIRST II, which provides large-scale, long-term professional development program for biology faculty, postdoctoral and graduate students from universities, four-year, and community colleges. The FIRST II project is providing widespread dissemination of instructional practices and materials that give faculty the ability to help all students learn science using active teaching methods and inquiry. The FIRST II project is being implemented and sustained by teams of scientists/faculty centered at eight biological field stations throughout the United States. The field station teams are working with faculty from colleges and universities in their region in a series of workshops that model active, inquiry-based science teaching both in the classroom and the field. FIRST II is also enabling faculty to learn and use multiple assessment strategies that provide evidence of student learning which their peers accept. We are exploring ways in which teaching can be recognized, evaluated, and rewarded within institutions. In FIRST II we are gathering evidence for the impact of both changes in faculty teaching and improvements in students' learning. The networks of faculty centered at each field station, and the national dissemination network hosted by the Long-Term Ecological Research Network office are facilitating collaboration among faculty about their reforms toward achieving excellence in science teaching, and about the emerging criteria and strategies for the scholarship of teaching.

生物科学 (61) 科学教学改革项目 (FIRST I) 使 27 所学院和大学的 92 名教授 322 门课程的教师能够采用主动、探究式的科学教学，从而为所有学生提供更多获得科学理解的机会。我们正在将 FIRST I 扩展为一个名为 FIRST II 的全国传播项目，该项目为来自大学、四年制和社区学院的生物学教师、博士后和研究生提供大规模、长期的专业发展计划。 FIRST II 项目正在广泛传播教学实践和材料，使教师能够利用积极的教学方法和探究来帮助所有学生学习科学。 FIRST II 项目由遍布美国八个生物现场站的科学家/教职人员团队实施和维持。实地站团队正在与所在地区的学院和大学的教师合作，举办一系列研讨会，在课堂和现场模拟积极的、基于探究的科学教学。 FIRST II 还使教师能够学习和使用多种评估策略，这些策略提供了同行接受的学生学习的证据。我们正在探索在机构内认可、评估和奖励教学的方法。在 FIRST II 中，我们正在收集证据来证明教师教学变化和学生学习改进的影响。以每个实地站为中心的教师网络以及由长期生态研究网络办公室主办的国家传播网络正在促进教师之间的合作，以实现卓越的科学教学改革，以及奖学金的新兴标准和战略的教学。