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.

早期职业科学教师通常面临着在新的学术环境中建立自己、准备新课程和开始新研究的重大挑战。提供专业发展和交流机会可以帮助新理科教师建立成功职业生涯的框架，进而有助于改善本科教育并加强科学研究和学术。这笔赠款支持的研讨会是完善的专业发展系列的延续，旨在帮助早期职业教师在工作、教学、研究和指导的主要职责中蓬勃发展。通过与美国地球科学教师协会 (NAGT) 合作，由地球、大气、海洋和行星科学领域经验丰富的教师领导组成的团队将每年夏天在马里兰大学为大约 75 名早期职业教师举办三场年度研讨会。在每次研讨会上，早期职业教师将了解教学的最佳实践，考虑保持积极研究和学术实践的成功策略，并配备建立成功职业生涯所需的资源和工具。该研讨会系列将强调教师在扩大参与和促进科学多样性、公平性和包容性方面的作用。每个研讨会都将在全国范围内进行广告，邀请来自所有学院和大学的申请者，这些学院和大学的早期职业教师负责教学、研究和指导。该项目将为教师参加研讨会提供支持，特别是来自两年制学院的教师。在研讨会期间，领导团队将示范有效的教学实践，例如主动学习技巧、小型和大型小组讨论、解决问题的任务以及安排参与者反思和制定自己的行动计划的时间。领导者通过这些会议、一对一对话、特定学科会议以及提供有关教学和研究计划的反馈来吸引参与者。研讨会活动将每年进行一次评估，并将根据每一批早期职业教师的需求和兴趣进行修改。项目负责人将与 NAGT 合作，为研讨会负责人制作培训课程，介绍通过教学、研究和指导促进科学多样性、公平性和包容性的方法。这些方法将融入研讨会会议中，参与者将制定个人战略计划，以改善其所在机构的科学多样性、公平性和包容性。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势进行评估，被认为值得支持以及更广泛的影响审查标准。