论文标题
每个人的宇宙：教授社区大学的天文学
Everyone's Universe: Teaching Astronomy in Community Colleges
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论文摘要
尽管仍然刻板的刻板印象仍然掩盖了社区学院，但全国各地的数十名新生仍在这些机构中开始他们的大学职业生涯，而且数字的增长速度是四年制学校的两倍以上。这些学生中约有300,000名每年进行介绍性天文学，因为上次正式接触科学，其中大多数人都将拥有，其中至少有三分之一的学生在社区或两年的大学中这样做。投资和投入资源和培训以为这一人群提供服务的重要性 - 从人口统计学上讲，每个人都不能被夸大。然而，在这两个地区都缺乏为这个人群服务的绝大多数人。社区学院对教学和学生的成功非常重视，既带来了挑战和机遇，教育工作者必须使用各种方法和创新策略，团队合作和教师支持系统以及巧妙的解决方法进行挑战。在这里，我们介绍了学生和教职员工，研究两个人群的一些特征，并为那些希望在社区学院教授天文学的人提供一些建议。
Despite the negative stereotypes still overshadowing community colleges, scores of freshmen nationwide are deliberately beginning their college careers at these institutions, and the numbers are increasing more than twice as fast as those of four-year schools. Approximately 300,000 of these students take introductory astronomy each year as the last formal exposure to science most of them will ever have, and at least one-third of these students do so at a community or two-year college. The importance of investing in and devoting resources and training to serve this population - everyone, demographically speaking - cannot be overstated. Yet the overwhelming majority of those who do serve this population are lacking in both areas. The community colleges' heavy emphasis on teaching and student success creates both challenges and opportunities that educators must meet head-on using a variety of methods and innovative strategies, teamwork and faculty support systems, and clever workarounds. Here, we introduce both the student and faculty populations, examine some characteristics of both populations, and offer some advice for those looking to teach introductory astronomy at a community college.
