DEM-Changing Faculty through Learning Communities

DEM 通过学习社区改变教师队伍

• 批准号: 0120825
• 负责人: Karan Watson
• 金额: $ 90万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 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: 2001-11-01 至 2005-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0120825&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DEM; Changing; Faculty; through; Learning

The Dwight Look College of Engineering and the College of Science at Texas A&M University will conduct a demonstration project aimed at changing faculty knowledge, personal vision, commitment and interactions with students, through learning communities.The project will help faculty improve four strategic disciplines that underpin improvement of learning environments for women, underrepresented minorities and all students:1) Development and invitation -- Faculty members examine mechanisms through which women and men develop intellectually and motivationally, and understand the role of invitation in the development process.2) Mental models -- Faculty members understand and make explicit how they build chains of reasoning from observable data through assumptions to action.3) Personal vision -- Faculty members improve their capacity to imagine and act in ways that maximize their individual self-fulfillment.4) Personal commitment -- Faculty members improve their capacity to move from creating a personal vision to recognizing that they have power and responsibility to realize it.The critical element of learning environments on university campuses is the faculty; therefore, development of learner-centered educational environments rests on helping faculty develop the mental and interpersonal disciplines that provide the foundation for such environments. Changing how women are treated, how the classroom is managed, how teaching is performed, how graduate students are mentored, all depend on numerous individual faculty. However, university campuses are not analogous to neural networks that can be trained by feeding back quantitative error measurements through algorithms such as the back-propagation method. Instead, university campuses more closely resemble complex adaptive systems in which diversity, interaction and selection of numerous and complicated agents gives rise to observable, emergent properties. If the aim is to create learning environments that are both more inviting and more welcoming, it is not sufficient to bombard faculty with messages such as "Be inviting!" or "Be welcoming!". Instead, it is important to identify disciplines that should be nurtured and developed across the entire faculty with the conviction that if faculty members practice these disciplines, then they will create learning environments that are inviting and welcoming.As faculty members become more proficient in the four strategic disciplines, the project should observe changes in attitudes about learning, teaching and the role of women and minorities in SMET. The project also should observe increasing participation in the workshops and faculty learning communities sponsored by the project. Finally, the project should observe improvement in retention of women in undergraduate physicalscience and engineering; improvement in the enrollment in graduate study; and improvement in retention of women in graduate physical science and engineering.

德怀特·卢克工程学院和德克萨斯农工大学理学院将开展一个示范项目，旨在通过学习社区改变教师的知识、个人愿景、承诺以及与学生的互动。该项目将帮助教师改进支撑四个战略学科改善女性、代表性不足的少数群体和所有学生的学习环境：1) 发展和邀请——教师研究女性和男性智力和动机发展的机制，并了解邀请在发展过程中的作用。2) 心智模型—— - 教职员工理解并做出明确他们如何从可观察的数据到假设到行动建立推理链。3) 个人愿景——教职人员提高他们的想象能力，并以最大限度地实现个人自我实现的方式行事。4) 个人承诺——教职人员提高他们的能力从创造个人愿景到认识到自己有权力和责任去实现它的能力。大学校园学习环境的关键要素是教师；因此，发展以学习者为中心的教育环境有赖于帮助教师发展心理和人际纪律，为这种环境奠定基础。改变对待女性的方式、如何管理课堂、如何进行教学、如何指导研究生，所有这些都取决于无数教师的个人。然而，大学校园并不类似于神经网络，可以通过反向传播方法等算法反馈定量误差测量来进行训练。相反，大学校园更像是复杂的适应系统，其中众多复杂主体的多样性、相互作用和选择产生了可观察的、突现的特性。如果目标是创造更有吸引力和更受欢迎的学习环境，那么用诸如“邀请！”之类的信息轰炸教师是不够的。或“欢迎！”。相反，重要的是确定应该在整个教师中培育和发展的学科，并坚信如果教师实践这些学科，那么他们将创造有吸引力和欢迎的学习环境。随着教师变得更加精通这四个学科战略学科，该项目应观察对学习、教学以及妇女和少数族裔在 SMET 中的作用的态度的变化。该项目还应该观察到越来越多的人参与该项目赞助的研讨会和教师学习社区。最后，该项目应观察物理科学与工程学本科生中女性保留率的提高；提高研究生入学率；以及提高物理科学与工程学研究生中女性的保留率。