Tribal College Faculty Professional Development Workshop

部落学院教师专业发展研讨会

• 批准号: 1724847
• 负责人: Aaron Thomas
• 金额: $ 23.42万
• 依托单位: University of Montana
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-07-15 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1724847&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Tribal; College; Faculty; Professional; Development

A goal of the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) is to increase the STEM instructional and research capacities of specific institutions of higher education that serve the Nation's indigenous students. Expanding the STEM curricular offerings at these institutions expands the opportunities of their students to pursue challenging, rewarding careers in STEM fields, provides for research studies in areas that may be culturally significant, and encourages a community and generational appreciation for science and mathematics education. The Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program funds research and the development, implementation, and investigation of models to transform the dissertation phase of doctoral education, postdoctoral training and/or faculty advancement of historically underrepresented minorities (URMs) in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and/or STEM education research. The focus of the proposal from the University of Montana (UM) is on developing faculty at tribal institutions, so they too will be able to support the needs of their students. In addition, UM continues to build and strengthen collaborative efforts with the Montana tribal colleges, which could provide more opportunities for tribal students to do research at UM. The University of Montana will expand upon a successful model to provide tribal college faculty collaboration with UM researchers and new research opportunities. Tribal college (TC) faculty will be provided field research experience to gain exposure to various research opportunities at the Flathead Lake Biological Station while investigating lab research practices that are appropriate for the TC's campus lab infrastructures, the needs of their students, and the knowledge, skills, and abilities of the TC faculty members. The research group model will continue to strengthen a faculty network as TC faculty learn from each other and begin establishing collaborations with UM faculty for future possible research discussion. The workshop will have TC faculty come to the UM campus and the FLBS for one week during the summer of 2018, have two follow up meetings during the subsequent fall and spring semesters, and participate in a specialized program for experienced TC faculty in the summer of 2019. A parallel track will be developed and provided for new TC faculty in the summer of 2019.

部落大学和大学计划（TCUP）的目标是提高为国家土著学生提供服务的特定高等教育机构的STEM教学和研究能力。在这些机构扩大STEM课程产品，扩大了学生在STEM领域中追求具有挑战性，奖励职业的机会，为可能具有文化意义的领域提供研究，并鼓励对科学和数学教育的社区和世代相传。研究生教育和教授（AGEP）计划的联盟基金研究以及对改变博士教育，博士后培训和/或教师在历史上代表性不足的少数群体（URMS）在科学，技术，技术，工程，工程和数学（STEM）和/或STEM教育研究中的发展，实施和调查。 蒙大拿大学（UM）提案的重点是在部落机构发展教职员工，因此他们也能够满足学生的需求。此外，UM继续与蒙大拿州的部落学院建立和加强合作努力，这可以为部落学生提供更多在UM进行研究的机会。蒙大拿大学将扩大成功的模型，以与UM研究人员和新的研究机会提供部落学院的教师合作。部落学院（TC）将获得现场研究经验，以在Flathead Lake生物站获得各种研究机会，同时调查适合TC的校园实验室基础设施，学生需求以及TC教师的知识，技能和能力的实验室研究实践。随着TC教职员工互相学习，并开始与UM教师建立合作以进行未来可能的研究讨论，研究小组模型将继续加强教师网络。该研讨会将在2018年夏季将TC教师来到UM校园和FLB，在随后的秋季和春季学期期间举行了两次后续会议，并在2019年夏季为有经验的TC教师参加了一项专业课程。将在2019年夏季开发并为新的TC教师开发并提供了新的TC教师。