A Vision for Change: Using ATP (Ambassador Training Program) to Energize Departmental Transformation

变革愿景：利用 ATP（大使培训计划）推动部门转型

• 批准号: 1355771
• 负责人: Alix Fink
• 金额: $ 28.72万
• 依托单位: Longwood University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-10-01 至 2016-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1355771&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Vision; Change; Using; ATP; Ambassador

An award has been made to Longwood University to organize a training program for Ambassadors to support implementation of recommendations made in the Vision and Change report as part of the mission of the Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education (PULSE). In September 2012, the PULSE partners (HHMI, NIH/NIGMS, and NSF) appointed 40 Vision and Change Leadership Fellows to stimulate transformative changes in undergraduate biology education. Fellows were selected from two-year colleges, liberal arts colleges, comprehensive universities, and research universities. The Fellows organized into four working groups with the overarching goal of helping life science departments transform their programs in a national effort to increase student learning of core concepts, increase student retention in the sciences, and prepare all students to be more curious and scientifically literate citizens. The Vision and Change report contained a number of recommendations for improving undergraduate life sciences education but did not furnish an implementation strategy. The current award is to train a cadre of Fellows to become external facilitators or "Ambassadors" who will visit college and university life science departments and assist with local planning and implementation. With support from a consultant, the Spreading the PULSE Working Group will develop, test, and implement an Ambassador training program. The initial cohort of Ambassadors will later train other Fellows and, as the program grows, members of the broader community to become Ambassadors. The V&C Rubrics, developed by the Taking the PULSE Working Group, will serve as a blueprint for departments to evaluate their own progress in adopting the V&C recommendations. In conjunction with this self-assessment, a department may request an on-campus visit by a team of trained Ambassadors to facilitate rich dialog about educational transformation and provide guidance and resources for moving forward with the implementation of reforms. The Spreading the PULSE Working Group is building a "Toolkit" of resources that departments can use when reforming their approach to teaching undergraduates. From its beginning, assessment of this organizational change effort will be a central consideration, and the dissemination of the methods and outcomes of that assessment will serve other projects seeking to foster department-level innovation and transformation. Information about the Rubrics, Ambassadors program, and Toolkit is available on the www.pulsecommunity.org website; all items will be updated as more departments field-test them over the next one to two years. Results from the PULSE project will be posted on the pulsecommunity website and shared with the life sciences community at professional meetings. This project is being funded jointly by the Directorate for Biological Sciences and the Directorate of Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their efforts to support Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education.

已向朗伍德大学（Longwood University）颁发了一项奖项，以组织一项培训计划，以支持实施愿景和变更报告中提出的建议，这是本科生生活科学教育（PULSE）的伙伴关系的一部分。 2012年9月，Pulse Partners（HHMI，NIH/NIGMS和NSF）任命了40个愿景和变革领导者，以刺激本科生物学教育的变革性变化。研究员是从两年学院，文科学院，综合大学和研究大学中选出的。研究员分为四个工作组，其总体目标是帮助生命科学部门改变计划，以增加学生对核心概念的学习，增加学生在科学中的保留，并准备所有学生变得更加好奇，更科学地识字公民。愿景与变更报告包含许多建议，以改善本科生生活科学教育，但没有提供实施策略。 目前的奖项是培训一组研究员，以成为外部促进者或“大使”，他们将访问大学和大学生命科学系并协助当地计划和实施。 在顾问的支持下，扩散脉搏工作组将开发，测试和实施大使培训计划。 最初的大使队员将随后训练其他研究员，随着计划的发展，更广泛的社区成员成为大使。 由Take Pulse工作组开发的V＆C标题将成为部门的蓝图，以评估自己在采用V＆C建议方面的进步。结合这种自我评估，部门可以要求一组受过训练的大使团队在校园内访问，以促进有关教育转型的丰富对话，并为实施改革的实施提供指导和资源。脉冲工作组的扩散正在建立一个“工具包”，部门在改革其教学本科生时可以使用的资源可以使用。 从一开始，对这项组织变革工作的评估将成为一个核心考虑因素，对该评估的方法和结果的传播将为寻求促进部门级的创新和转型的其他项目服务。 有关标题，大使计划和工具包的信息，请访问www.pulsecommunity.org网站；在接下来的一到两年中，所有项目都将在越来越多的部门进行现场测试中进行更新。 Pulse项目的结果将发布在PulSecommunity网站上，并在专业会议上与Life Sciences社区共享。 该项目由生物科学局和教育与人力资源局共同资助，本科教育部门，作为支持本科生物学教育的愿景和变化的努力的一部分。