Conference on STEM Teacher Preparation at Liberal Arts Institutions

文科院校 STEM 教师准备会议

• 批准号: 1236621
• 负责人: Victor Donnay
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Bryn Mawr College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-05-01 至 2014-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1236621&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; STEM; Teacher; Preparation; Liberal

The Consortium for Excellence in Teacher Preparation, a coalition of liberal arts colleges and universities from the northeast with small teacher preparation programs, is sponsoring a three day conference on STEM Teacher Preparation at Liberal Arts Institutions to be held at Bryn Mawr College. The primary focus of the conference is on ways to increase the number of STEM graduates from liberal arts institutions who go into teaching, while also examining a wider range of issues related to STEM teacher preparation. The conference addresses the issue: Maximizing the Contribution of Liberal Arts Institutions to Strengthening the STEM Teacher Preparation Pipeline. Liberal arts institutions prepare a relatively small number of STEM teachers, but the teachers they do prepare have strong content knowledge, tend to take on leadership roles in their schools and thereby have the potential to make a disproportionately large impact on the schools in which they teach. By building a network focused on STEM teacher preparation among liberal arts institutions, the conference has the potential to significantly strengthen the contribution of these institutions to the national effort to produce more high quality math and science teachers.

卓越教师准备联盟是一个由美国东北部的文理学院和大学组成的联盟，拥有小型的教师准备项目。该联盟将在布林莫尔学院主办一场为期三天的文理学院STEM教师准备会议。会议的主要焦点是如何增加文科院校的STEM毕业生从事教学工作的人数，同时也研究了与STEM教师准备有关的更广泛的问题。会议讨论的问题是：最大限度地发挥文科院校对加强STEM教师培养渠道的贡献。文科院校培养的STEM教师数量相对较少，但他们培养的教师拥有丰富的内容知识，往往在学校担任领导角色，因此有可能对他们所任教的学校产生不成比例的巨大影响。通过在文科院校中建立一个专注于STEM教师培养的网络，会议有可能显著加强这些院校对国家培养更多高质量数学和科学教师的贡献。