Strategies-STEM Teams: Promoting Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Skills, Knowledge, Interest, and Career Awareness through Strategic Teaming

STEM团队战略项目的主要目标是在北卡州农村偏远的中学与研究型大学的高科技资源之间建立一座桥梁，有效地教授STEM（科学、数学和技术）内容，并灌输对STEM职业潜力的理解。被选中学校的中学教师将得到一个行政团队的支持，以指导、指导和授权教师充分利用资源。该项目建立在项目小组与该地区类似地区的教师、领导和学生进行的广泛试点研究的基础上。每个学年，STEM团队将直接为45名STEM教师、60名通过STEM课后项目学习的学生、32名领导人员以及这些地区4所中学教师教室里的2300名学生提供服务。STEM团队由四个基于研究的关键策略驱动：1)采用新兴技术建立网络并加强所有团队的学习；2)通过以少数族裔STEM科学家和STEM教育专家为特色的各种学生、教师和领导者专业发展，向各地区提供最新的STEM职业信息；3)更新学生和教师的STEM技能和内容知识，以及与州/国家STEM内容标准和学校课程明确相关的技能；4)使用从内部建立领导目标的战略团队模型。STEM团队将使用比较组来研究战略团队模型的有效性。将采用定量和定性的方法来收集学生的内容知识、STEM兴趣和职业意识的数据。教师的态度、倾向和课堂行为与自我效能感、教师不满和技术信心等因素相关的数据也将被收集。该项目将利用正在进行的项目，如北卡罗来纳州立教育学院的星期五研究所（www.fi.ncsu.edu）和MEGA技术支持网络（www.ncsu.edu/mega）。研究结果将为支持战略团队模式提供证据，以提高学生的STEM内容知识和STEM职业意识。

The primary goal of the STEM Teams strategies project is to build a bridge from isolated middle schools in rural NC to the high tech resources at research universities, to effectively teach STEM (science, mathematics, & technology) content and instill an understanding of the potential of STEM careers. The middle school teachers in the selected schools will be supported by an administrative team to guide, coach, and empower the teachers to make the most of the resources. The project builds on extensive pilot studies done by the Project Team with teachers, leaders, and students in similar districts in the region. STEM Teams will directly serve 45 STEM teachers, 60 students through the STEM after-school program, 32 leadership personnel, and all of the 2,300 students located in teachers' classrooms in 4 middle schools in these districts, each academic year. STEM Teams is driven by four research-based, key strategies: 1) Adopt new and emerging technologies to network and enhance learning across all teams, 2) Provide up-to-date STEM careers information to districts through a variety of student, teacher, and leader professional development featuring minority STEM scientists and STEM education experts, 3) Update students' and teachers' STEM skills and content knowledge, and skills explicitly connected to state/national STEM content standards and the school curriculum, and 4) Use a Strategic Teaming Model that builds leadership goals from within. STEM Teams will study the efficacy of the Strategic Teaming Model using a comparison group. Both quantitative and qualitative measures will be used to collect data on students' content knowledge, STEM interest and career awareness. Data will also be collected on teachers' attitudes, dispositions, and classroom enactment related to such factors as self efficacy, teacher dissatisfaction, & technological confidence. The project will leverage the on-going projects such as NC State College of Education's Friday Institute (www.fi.ncsu.edu) and the MEGA technology support network (www.ncsu.edu/mega). Research findings will provide evidence in support of the Strategic Teaming model to increase students' STEM content knowledge and STEM career awareness.