RET Site: Engaging and Enabling Teachers through Advanced Manufacturing Research

RET 网站：通过先进制造研究吸引和支持教师

• 批准号: 2206962
• 负责人: Marian Kennedy
• 金额: $ 59.99万
• 依托单位: Clemson University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-05-01 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2206962&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RET; Site; Engaging; Enabling; Teachers

The RET Site ‘Engaging and Enabling Teachers through Advance Manufacturing Research’ at Clemson University will host 10 high school teachers and community college instructors from South Carolina each year for the 3-year project. Manufacturing is a foundation of economic growth and job creation across the U.S. and is constantly changing with improvements in technology, materials, and design. While this field is a pillar for economic growth within the U.S., manufacturing companies struggle to recruit a technically prepared workforce. When teachers have an opportunity to engage in research, seeing for themselves how knowledge is constructed for a field and understand how the work can influence the larger engineering or scientific community through the stages of research (identification of research questions through to the dissemination of the findings), their impact in the classroom will be increased as they incorporate these experiences into their classroom activities. This research experience for teachers (RET) program is focused on providing experiences for high school teachers and community college instructors to improve their understanding of how research progresses (scientific inquiry) and the field of advanced manufacturing. All teachers will be asked to design and develop classroom activities related to their research projects. The RET Site ‘Engaging and Enabling Teachers through Advanced Manufacturing Research’ at Clemson University seeks to provide transformative manufacturing research experiences for 30 high school teachers and community college instructors from South Carolina. Each teacher will have agency over their own research project related to the development of advanced manufacturing materials or manufacturing techniques. By participating, the teacher’s confidence about manufacturing, knowledge of new manufacturing opportunities, and the research process is anticipated to increase. At the close of the program, each teacher will be able to convey the research process, the manufacturing landscape within the U.S., manufacturing career opportunities and different educational pathways into manufacturing to their students. The goals include: (1) expanding content knowledge of advanced and traditional materials manufacturing for teachers to support integration into new STEM and workforce development teaching and learning materials; (2) engaging teachers in advanced manufacturing research where they take on the role as the lead researcher and increase their understanding of how research leads to knowledge development; (3) providing teachers with professional development (mentoring on curriculum development, etc.) both during their research experience and the following academic year; (4) creating strong communication between the teacher, the RET leadership team and industrial advisory board to provide the teachers with support as they refine their curriculum modules; (5) increasing teacher self-efficacy related to manufacturing content knowledge and inquiry-based teaching; (6) increasing teachers’ knowledge of regional career opportunities in advanced manufacturing to inspire their students to consider advanced manufacturing careers. The RET evaluation work will result in increased understandings of regionally-important questions related to workforce development, teacher learning and professional development, and post-secondary educational pathways.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.

克莱姆森大学的 RET 网站“通过先进的制造业研究吸引和赋能教师”每年将接待来自南卡罗来纳州的 10 名高中教师和社区大学讲师，参与为期 3 年的项目。制造业是整个经济增长和创造就业机会的基础。美国随着技术、材料和设计的进步而不断变化，虽然这一领域是美国经济增长的支柱，但当教师有机会从事研究时，制造公司却很难招募到技术熟练的劳动力。对于他们自己，如何为某个领域构建知识，并了解该工作如何通过研究阶段（确定研究问题到传播研究结果）影响更大的工程或科学界，它们在课堂上的影响力将随着以下因素而增加：他们将这些经验融入到课堂活动中。教师研究经验 (RET) 计划的重点是为高中教师和社区大学教师提供经验，以提高他们对研究进展（科学探究）和先进制造领域的理解。所有教师都将被要求设计和开发课堂克莱姆森大学的 RET 网站“通过先进制造研究吸引和赋能教师”旨在为来自南卡罗来纳州的 30 名高中教师和社区大学教师提供变革性的制造研究经验。与先进制造材料或制造技术的开发相关的自己的研究项目，通过参与，教师对制造的信心、对新制造机会的了解以及研究过程预计都会增加。能够传达目标包括：(1) 为教师扩展先进和传统材料制造的内容知识，以支持融入新的 STEM 和劳动力发展。教学和学习材料；(2) 让教师作为首席研究员参与先进制造研究，并增加他们对研究如何促进知识发展的理解；(3) 为教师提供专业发展（课程开发指导，等）在他们的研究经历和以下学术经历中(4) 在教师、RET 领导团队和行业顾问委员会之间建立强有力的沟通，为教师完善课程模块提供支持； (5) 提高教师与制造内容知识和探究式教学相关的自我效能； (6) 增加教师对先进制造业区域职业机会的了解，以激励学生考虑先进制造业职业。 RET 评估工作将加深对与劳动力发展、教师学习和专业发展相关的区域重要问题的理解。专上教育途径。该奖项反映了通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，NSF 的法定使命被认为值得支持。