Building Capacity for Disciplinary Experts in Math and Science Teaching

该项目满足了国家日益增长的招聘、准备和提供有效的入职支持的需求，这些新的STEM初中和高中教师拥有STEM领域的学位和强有力的具体教学准备。特别是，该项目将为STEM专业人员和STEM专业学生创造一条在华盛顿特区教学的创新途径。这一群体代表着致力于在高需求学校任教的未来教师的未开发供应。完成后，该项目将验证利用这一STEM学科专家库的战略，并将设计和试点一套为他们量身定做的全面学习经验。该项目的工作将以教育和STEM教师为特色，与数学和科学专业教师合作，开发和试验支持教师候选人发展的新方法。博物馆实习将在整个项目中建立和注入，因为博物馆是城市景观中的地方，教师候选人可以在那里参与真实的学习体验，并实践教授不同群体的学生。这种合作努力的长期目标是极大地提高DC地区为城市数学和科学教学培养“学科专家”的能力。有三个项目成果。首先，该项目将探索如何增加准备在DC地区任教的STEM专业人员和本科STEM专业人员的数量。其次，该项目将使乔治华盛顿大学(GWU)教育和STEM教职员工、哥伦比亚特区公共和公共特许学校、史密森国家自然历史博物馆、卡内基科学教育学院和GWU公民参与中心之间的可持续合作关系制度化，以改善华盛顿特区的数学和科学教师培训渠道。第三，将制定一个强大的学习计划，以重新设计的教师准备课程、综合和创新的实地体验以及早期职业指导为特色。对从选定的学生作业中收集的试点数据以及从课程和实地实习中收集的视频进行系统分析，将有助于制定新课程，强调方法，教考生使用他们在数学和科学方面的知识，不仅判断学生的推理，而且认识和使用学龄儿童的良好思维(即良好的科学和数学思想)作为学习的基石。最后，该项目旨在应对将教师培训的范围扩大到传统的大学教师教育计划范围之外的需要，因此还将制定一项专门的入职和早期职业支持战略，将候选人与在华盛顿特区都会区早年跟随他们任教的导师联系起来。

This project addresses the Nation's growing need to recruit, prepare, and provide effective induction support for new STEM middle and high school teachers with degrees in STEM fields and strong content-specific pedagogical preparation. In particular the project will create an innovative pathway to teaching in Washington, DC for STEM professionals and STEM majors. This population represents an untapped supply of future teachers committed to teaching in high needs schools. Upon completion, the project will have validated a strategy to tap into this pool of STEM disciplinary experts, and will design and pilot a comprehensive set of learning experiences tailored to them. The project work will feature education and STEM faculty working with expert mathematics and science teachers in developing and piloting new methods to support teacher candidate development. Museum internships will be established and infused throughout the program, because museums are places in the urban landscape where teacher candidates can participate in authentic learning experiences and practice teaching a diverse population of students.The long-term goal of this collaborative effort is to greatly enhance the DC area's ability to prepare "disciplinary experts" for urban mathematics and science teaching. There are three project outcomes. First, the project will discover how to increase the number of STEM professionals and undergraduate STEM majors preparing to teach in the DC area. Second, the project will institutionalize a sustainable nexus of collaboration among George Washington University's (GWU) education and STEM faculty, the District of Columbia Public and Public Charter Schools, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Academy for Science Education, and GWU's Center for Civic Engagement, to improve the mathematics and science teacher education pipeline in Washington, DC. Third, a robust program of study will be produced featuring redesigned teacher preparation coursework, integrated and innovative field experiences, and early career mentoring. A systematic analysis of pilot data collected from selected student work and video from courses and field placements will facilitate the development of new curriculum emphasizing methods that teach candidates to use their knowledge in mathematics and science, not just to judge student reasoning, but to recognize and use school age students' good thinking (i.e. good scientific and mathematical ideas) as building blocks for learning. Finally, the project is designed to respond to the need to extend the scope of teacher training beyond what is traditionally done within the boundary of a university-based teacher education program, and therefore will also produce a specialized induction and early career support strategy that will link candidates with mentors who will follow them in their early years of teaching in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.