RET Site: PLACE- Promoting Learning About Computational tools and the Environment

RET 网站：PLACE- 促进有关计算工具和环境的学习

• 批准号: 1542383
• 负责人: Alex Mayer
• 金额: $ 59.96万
• 依托单位: Michigan Technological University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1542383&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RET; Site; PLACE; Promoting; Learning

This Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science Site at Michigan Technological University (MTU) will focus on the application of computational tools for researching environmental engineering systems, an area of research and teaching emphasis at MTU. The research experiences will build on collaborative, well-established, and broad based multidisciplinary research activities at MTU. Teachers will gain an understanding of how to apply state of the art computational tools to research environmental systems and how to solve environmental problems. The tools and research projects have relevant applications in high school science (earth sciences, biology, chemistry, physics), math, and social studies. Through this RET Site teachers and their students would be provided an understanding of the discipline of environmental engineering and the research process, which is a field that requires growth and growing interest from future practitioners. This is especially societally relevant as 3 of the 14 grand challenges for engineering (National Academy of Engineering, 2015) directly relate to the field of environmental engineering.This RET Site will offer an intensive six week summer research program for a total of 30 rural secondary STEM teachers over three years from school districts in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, several which include significant numbers of Native American students. The proposed activities for each cohort of teachers consist of: 1) participation of RET and PhD students in a 6-week pre-research experience institute. Teachers participating via teleconference will be introduced to the goals of the RET program, provided with background on research projects, and asked to share their experience about research, inquiry-based teaching, and learning. PhD student mentors will be introduced to secondary school teaching environment and standards, inquiry-based teaching, and mentoring skills based on the Wisconsin Mentoring Seminar; 2) participation in a 6-week summer program at MTU where teachers and PhD mentors work on research projects culminating in final poster presentations; and 3) participation, during the academic year following the summer research program, in developing, implementing, and disseminating curricular materials in collaboration with PhD students and senior personnel with experience in lesson plan development. The project will achieve the following objectives: (a) secondary school teachers will: gain an understanding of the discipline of environmental engineering and the research process; learn new computational tools that they can use with their students and; gain confidence in teaching about research and science (b) secondary school students will: gain awareness of the discipline of environmental engineering; gain an understanding of how models and other computational tools are used in engineering and science and; broaden their interest in STEM careers; (c) PhD students will: deepen their understanding of research design through teaching that skill to others; gain an understanding of how to translate research to science teaching and communication and; gain experience in mentoring and team building..

密歇根理工大学 (MTU) 的工程和计算机科学教师研究经验 (RET) 将重点关注计算工具在环境工程系统研究中的应用，这是 MTU 的研究和教学重点领域。研究经验将建立在 MTU 协作、完善且基础广泛的多学科研究活动的基础上。 教师将了解如何应用最先进的计算工具来研究环境系统以及如何解决环境问题。这些工具和研究项目在高中科学（地球科学、生物学、化学、物理）、数学和社会研究中具有相关应用。通过这个 RET 站点，教师和学生将了解环境工程学科和研究过程，这是一个需要未来从业者成长和不断增长兴趣的领域。 这尤其具有社会意义，因为 14 项工程重大挑战中的 3 项（美国国家工程院，2015 年）直接与环境工程领域相关。该 RET 站点将为总共 30 名农村中学提供为期六周的强化夏季研究计划三年来，STEM 教师来自密歇根州上半岛的学区，其中一些学区包括大量美国原住民学生。为每组教师提议的活动包括： 1) RET 和博士生参加为期 6 周的预研究体验学院。通过电话会议参与的教师将被介绍 RET 计划的目标，提供研究项目的背景，并要求分享他们在研究、探究式教学和学习方面的经验。基于威斯康星州导师研讨会，向博士生导师介绍中学教学环境和标准、探究式教学以及导师技巧； 2) 参加 MTU 为期 6 周的夏季项目，其中教师和博士导师致力于研究项目，最终进行海报展示； 3) 在暑期研究计划之后的学年期间，与博士生和具有课程计划开发经验的高级人员合作，参与开发、实施和传播课程材料。该项目将实现以下目标： (a) 中学教师将： 了解环境工程学科和研究过程；学习可以与学生一起使用的新计算工具；获得对研究和科学教学的信心 (b) 中学生将： 获得对环境工程学科的认识；了解模型和其他计算工具如何在工程和科学中使用；扩大他们对 STEM 职业的兴趣； (c) 博士生将： 通过向他人传授该技能来加深对研究设计的理解；了解如何将研究转化为科学教学和传播；获得指导和团队建设的经验。