I-Corps: Training Teachers to Use Engineering as a Context for Learning

I-Corps：培训教师以工程为学习背景

• 批准号: 1518619
• 负责人: Anant Kukreti
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Cincinnati Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-01-15 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1518619&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Training; Teachers; Use; Engineering

Common core standards across the United States have elevated educational requirements and demands of teachers. The new curriculum, particularly in science, includes the engineering design process as a core idea spanning problem definition, solution generation, and design optimization. Discovery of scientific principles via ?technology? experiments and the importance of hands-on, real world projects are stressed. Teachers are struggling to incorporate engineering design challenges into their classroom as it has been completely lacking in teacher training programs offered by colleges of education across the nation and there is a dearth of options being created to fill this gap. This proposal is partially motivated from multiple requests from school districts outside of the Cincinnati Engineering Enhanced Math and Science (CEEMS) targeted partnership to provide their math and science teachers with training in challenge-based learning (CBL) and engineering design process (EDP). The Cincinnati Engineering Enhanced Math and Science Program has developed and implemented a successful professional development model to train secondary teachers to integrate challenge-based learning and the engineering design process into the teaching of math and science content. The training was developed in response to new state and national standards. Key components include: 1) providing teachers multiple opportunities to experience engineering design challenges, 2) empowering teachers through ongoing coaching support, and 3) engaging students through hands-on activities and allowing choices to project selection and design. CEEMS is firmly rooted in current research in the fields of science, mathematics, and engineering education and is based on studies on how students learn mathematics and science if engineering is used as the context.

美国各地的共同核心标准提高了教育要求和教师的要求。新课程，特别是科学课程，将工程设计过程作为核心思想，涵盖问题定义、解决方案生成和设计优化。通过“技术”发现科学原理强调了实验以及实践、现实世界项目的重要性。教师们正在努力将工程设计挑战融入课堂，因为全国各地的教育学院完全缺乏教师培训项目，而且也缺乏填补这一空白的选择。该提案的部分动机是来自辛辛那提工程增强数学和科学 (CEEMS) 目标合作伙伴之外的学区的多项要求，为他们的数学和科学教师提供基于挑战的学习 (CBL) 和工程设计过程 (EDP) 的培训。辛辛那提工程增强数学和科学项目开发​​并实施了成功的专业发展模式，培训中学教师将基于挑战的学习和工程设计过程融入数学和科学内容的教学中。该培训是为了响应新的国家和国家标准而制定的。关键组成部分包括：1）为教师提供多种体验工程设计挑战的机会，2）通过持续的辅导支持为教师提供支持，3）通过实践活动吸引学生并允许选择项目选择和设计。 CEEMS 牢固植根于当前科学、数学和工程教育领域的研究，并基于对学生在工程背景下如何学习数学和科学的研究。