Workshops to Increase Engineering Participation in the Noyce Program

提高工程参与诺伊斯计划的研讨会

• 批准号: 1136339
• 负责人: Sheryl Sorby
• 金额: $ 13.61万
• 依托单位: Higher Education Services, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-05-01 至 2014-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1136339&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshops; Increase; Engineering; Participation; Noyce

This project is planning and implementing several one-day workshops each year in conjunction with national and sectional meetings of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) for the purpose of encouraging engineering faculty to develop Noyce proposals. These workshops target engineering faculty who are inclined to consider submitting Noyce proposals, and help them to (1) develop sufficient understanding of working with K12 systems, and (2) learn enough about the Noyce program so that they can write Noyce proposals effectively. The workshops are designed in consultation with two engineering educators who have been highly involved in K12 education. A current, local Noyce PI and a Noyce scholar are involved in part of each workshop to provide an understanding of how a Noyce program works. The workshop program includes discussion of advance homework assigned to participants to learn about K12 licensure requirements from an education faculty member on their campus, discussion of examples of successful projects, information about the requirements for successful Noyce proposals, and guidance in how engineering faculty can work within their own home institutions to gain buy-in from stakeholders at their universities and to collaborate successfully with teacher education programs. Participants spend time during the workshops developing detailed outlines of viable Noyce proposals. The project maintains contact with workshop participants afterward through individual communications and a listserv of workshop participants. Each year, workshops are held in conjunction with the two national annual conferences sponsored by ASEE, and with 4 or 5 sectional meetings. Linking the workshops with both regional and national ASEE meetings is designed to impact a wide geographic distribution of participants, with the intent of improving the geographic distribution of the Noyce portfolio and thereby reaching a broader audience of prospective K12 teachers. Because engineers are trained to approach STEM subjects from a problem solving orientation, the ultimate result of this effort is to increase the number of K12 STEM teachers whose pedagogical approach to teaching STEM subjects includes relevant examples from real world applications. The workshops are expected to reach 360 participants over three years. Formative assessment from workshop evaluations guides improvement and the numbers of new engineering-focused Noyce awards is being tracked.

该项目每年与美国工程教育学会（ASEE）的国家和分段会议一起计划和实施几天的研讨会，以鼓励工程学院制定NOYCE建议。这些讲习班的目标工程学院倾向于考虑提交Noyce提议，并帮助他们（1）对使用K12系统的工作有足够的了解，并且（2）对NOYCE计划的了解足够多，以便他们可以有效地编写Noyce建议。这些研讨会是与两名高度参与K12教育的工程教育者进行咨询设计的。每个研讨会的一部分参与了当前的本地Noyce Pi和Noyce Scholar，以提供对Noyce计划的工作方式的理解。研讨会课程包括讨论分配给参与者的预先作业的讨论，以了解校园中的教育教师的K12许可要求，讨论成功的项目的示例，有关Noyce提案成功要求的信息以及工程教师如何在其自己的家庭机构内部从事与他们的大学合作和教育的合作计划中的工作中的工作指导。参与者在研讨会上花费时间，开发可行的Noyce提案的详细概述。该项目随后通过个人沟通和研讨会参与者的列表保持与研讨会参与者的联系。每年，讲习班与ASEE赞助的两个全国年度会议以及4或5个分区会议一起举行。将研讨会与区域和国家ASEE会议联系起来，旨在影响参与者的广泛地理分布，目的是改善Noyce Portfolio的地理分布，从而吸引更多的潜在K12老师。由于工程师经过培训，可以通过解决问题的方向来处理STEM受试者，因此这项工作的最终结果是增加K12 STEM教师的数量，其教学方法的STEM学科的教学方法包括现实世界应用的相关示例。这些研讨会预计将在三年内吸引360名参与者。研讨会评估的形成性评估指导了改进和新的以工程为重点的NOYCE奖项的数量。