COLLABORATIVE RET Site: Global STEM - Appropriate Technologies for Developing Communities

协作 RET 网站：全球 STEM - 发展中社区的适当技术

• 批准号: 1855239
• 负责人: Leanne Petry
• 金额: $ 26.82万
• 依托单位: Central State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1855239&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: COLLABORATIVE; RET; Site; Global; STEM

This Research Experience for Teachers (RET) focuses on international engineering research based on human-centered design and appropriate technology for developing countries. This RET site is a collaborative effort between the University of Dayton (UD) and Central State University (CSU) that will engage both in-service and pre-service teachers with hands-on research experiences with both domestic and international community partners. Participants will engage in a transformative, twelve month experience with five distinct components: (1) Intercultural competence and travel preparation; (2) Appropriate technology related research and/or human-centered design with a faculty member at UD or CSU who supports the work of an international community partner; (3) On-site work at the international community partner's facility; (4) Two-week intensive curriculum development with the participant cohort under the guidance of a curriculum coach; and (5) Follow-on programming that includes continued research with a faculty member, piloting, revising, and final submission of curriculum to TeachEngineering or for sharing with other college faculty on CSU's and UD's websites. This RET site will provide a transformational experience for teachers that they will be able to bring into their curriculum and classroom. This program will help develop intercultural competence in participants and facilitate an understanding of engineering impact in a global context. Through this unique program, participants will experience personal growth through cultural immersion, and participate in creating and designing engineering solutions to address specific social concerns. As a result of their experiences, they will create highly integrated STEM curriculum that includes geography, history, political science, and culture that incorporates best practices for attracting underrepresented populations to engineering.This Research Experience for Teachers emphasizes international engineering research thematically focused on human-centered design and appropriate technology for developing countries. This a collaborative RET between the University of Dayton (UD) and Central State University (CSU) with an emphasis. This three year project will engage 36 G6-12 in-service and pre-service teachers in a variety of engineering research opportunities through UDs ETHOS (Engineers in Technical Humanitarian Opportunities for Service Learning) Center. In the fall of each year, 12 teachers will be recruited into the year-long research program which includes 2 months of on-site summer work and an additional 2.5 months of programming throughout the year. From January to April, teachers will participate in a series of orientation activities where they will meet their faculty mentors, be introduced to their research projects that connect to UD's ETHOS center, learn about appropriate technology and human-centered design, travel safety and the community to which they will be traveling. The ETHOS Center, which has provided service-learning experiences through technical immersions for more than 15 years, will coordinate participant travel. Prior to their international immersion, the teachers will engage in research with their faculty mentor part time during the school year. Throughout June and July, teachers will conduct campus-based research as well as engage in a related project with an international partner in a 2-4 week international placement. Upon their return, they will continue to engage with this project and their international partners using institutional research facilities and virtual communication technology. Teachers will participate in an intensive, affinity structured and team-based curriculum development program for two weeks, where they will develop lessons using the TeachEngineering format under the guidance of a curriculum coach. The follow-up program will include lesson piloting and publishing, continued research, ETHOS retreat and closing presentation and celebration. Lessons will be piloted, edited and published during the fall.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项针对教师的研究经验（RET）着重于基于以人为本的设计和适当技术的国际工程研究。此RET网站是代顿大学（UD）和中央州立大学（CSU）之间的合作努力，该公司将与家庭和国际社区合作伙伴进行动手研究经验与服务和服务前教师进行。参与者将通过五个不同的组成部分进行变革性的，十二个月的经验：（1）跨文化能力和旅行准备； （2）与UD或CSU的教职员工相关的技术相关研究和/或以人为本的设计，他们支持国际社会合作伙伴的工作； （3）国际社会合作伙伴设施的现场工作； （4）在课程教练的指导下，参与者队列的为期两周的密集课程开发； （5）随后的节目包括与教职员工的持续研究，试点，修订和最终提交课程的教学课程或与CSU和UD网站上的其他大学教师共享。此RET网站将为教师提供转型体验，他们将能够带入课程和课堂。该计划将有助于发展参与者的跨文化能力，并促进对全球环境中工程影响的理解。通过这个独特的计划，参与者将通过文化沉浸体验个人成长，并参与创建和设计工程解决方案，以解决特定的社会问题。由于他们的经验，他们将创建高度综合的STEM课程，其中包括地理，历史，政治学和文化，这些课程纳入了吸引代表性不足的工程人群的最佳实践。教师的研究经验强调，国际工程研究的主题为主要的，以人为中心的设计和适当的发展中国家的技术为重点。这是代顿大学（UD）和中央州立大学（CSU）之间的合作性RET。这个三年的项目将通过UDS Ethos（技术人道主义者的服务学习机会的工程师）中心参与36 G6-12的服务和服务前教师。每年秋天，将招募12名教师参加为期一年的研究计划，其中包括2个月的现场夏季工作和全年的2.5个月编程。从一月到四月，教师将参加一系列的定位活动，在其中遇到教师导师，将其介绍给他们与UD的精神中心相关的研究项目，了解适当的技术和以人为中心的设计，旅行安全以及将要旅行的社区。通过技术浸入超过15年来提供服务学习经验的精神中心将协调参与者的旅行。在国际沉浸之前，教师将在学年兼职与他们的教职员工进行研究。在整个六月和七月，教师将在2-4周的国际安排中与国际合作伙伴进行基于校园的研究，并与国际合作伙伴进行相关项目。返回后，他们将继续使用机构研究设施和虚拟通信技术与该项目及其国际合作伙伴互动。教师将在两周内参加一项密集，亲和力的结构化和团队的课程开发计划，他们将在课程教练的指导下使用Teachengeering格式开发课程。后续计划将包括课程试验和出版，持续的研究，精神务虚会以及闭幕式和庆祝活动。该奖项将在秋季进行试验，编辑和出版。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评论标准来评估值得支持的。

项目成果

Work in Progress: Involving Teachers in International Community Engaged Learning Projects to Enhance Their Understanding of Engineering and Intercultural Awareness

正在进行的工作：让教师参与国际社会参与的学习项目，以增强他们对工程的理解和跨文化意识

• DOI: 10.18260/1-2--35664
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 2020 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference
• 作者: Pinnell, M;Schneider, K;Petry, L;Franco, S;Daniels, M;Anderson, A.
• 通讯作者: Anderson, A.