Collaborative Research: Early Career Geoscience Faculty Development Workshop: A partnership between NAGT and NSF

合作研究：早期职业地球科学教师发展研讨会：NAGT 和 NSF 之间的合作伙伴关系

• 批准号: 2028642
• 负责人: Benjamin Laabs
• 金额: $ 27.95万
• 依托单位: North Dakota State University Fargo
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2028642&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Early; Career; Geoscience

Early career science faculty commonly face significant challenges to establish themselves in a new academic environment, prepare new courses, and begin new research. Providing professional development and networking opportunities can help new science faculty establish the framework for a successful career, which in turn can help to improve undergraduate education and strengthen scientific research and scholarship. The workshops supported by this grant are a continuation of a well-established professional development series designed to help early career faculty flourish in the primary duties of their work, teaching, research, and mentoring. Through a partnership with the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT), a team of experienced faculty leaders in Earth, atmospheric, marine, and planetary sciences will host three annual workshops at the University of Maryland for approximately seventy-five early career faculty each summer. At each workshop, early career faculty will learn about best practices in teaching, consider successful strategies for maintaining an active research and scholarly practice, and become equipped with resources and tools needed to establish a successful career. The workshop series will emphasize the role of faculty in broadening participation and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusivity in science. Each workshop will be nationally advertised to invite applicants from all colleges and universities where early career faculty are tasked with teaching, research, and mentoring. The project will provide support for faculty to attend the workshop, especially faculty from two-year colleges. During workshop sessions, the leadership team will model effective pedagogical practices such as active learning techniques, small and large group discussions, problem-solving tasks, and scheduled time for participants to reflect and develop their own action plans. Leaders engage the participants through these sessions along with one-on-one conversations, discipline-specific sessions, and by providing feedback on teaching and research plans. Workshop activities will be evaluated annually and will be modified according to the needs and interests of each cohort of early career faculty. The project leaders will partner with NAGT to produce training curriculum for workshop leaders in methods of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusivity in science through teaching, research, and mentoring. These methods will be infused in workshop sessions and participants will develop personal strategic plans for improving diversity, equity, and inclusivity in science at their home institutions.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.

早期的职业科学教师通常面临重大挑战，即在新的学术环境中建立自己，准备新的课程并开始新的研究。提供专业发展和网络机会可以帮助新的科学教师为成功的职业建立框架，从而可以帮助改善本科教育并加强科学研究和奖学金。这笔赠款支持的讲习班延续了一个公认的专业发展系列，旨在帮助早期职业教师在其工作，教学，研究和指导的主要职责中蓬勃发展。通过与全国地球科学教师协会（NAGT）的合作，一支由地球，大气，海洋和行星科学领导者组成的团队将在马里兰州大学举办三场年度研讨会，每年夏天约有75名早期职业教师。在每个研讨会上，早期的职业教师都会了解教学中的最佳实践，考虑维持积极研究和学术实践的成功策略，并配备建立成功职业所需的资源和工具。研讨会系列将强调教师在扩大参与和促进科学中的多样性，公平和包容性方面的作用。每个研讨会都将在全国范围内做广告，邀请所有职业教师负责教学，研究和指导的所有学院的申请人。该项目将为教师参加研讨会，尤其是两年年级的教职员工提供支持。在研讨会期间，领导团队将建模有效的教学实践，例如主动学习技术，小组和大型小组讨论，解决问题的任务以及计划的时间，供参与者反映和制定自己的行动计划。领导者通过这些会议与参与者以及一对一的对话，特定于纪律的会议以及提供有关教学和研究计划的反馈。研讨会活动将每年评估，并根据早期职业教师的每个队列的需求和利益进行修改。项目负责人将与NAGT合作，为通过教学，研究和指导来促进科学多样性，公平和包容性的方法，为讲习班领导者提供培训课程。这些方法将在研讨会上注入，参与者将制定个人战略计划，以改善其家庭机构科学的多样性，公平性和包容性。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审查标准来通过评估来支持的。