Robert Noyce Capacity Building Proposal at Augustana College

奥古斯塔纳学院罗伯特·诺伊斯能力建设提案

• 批准号: 1439844
• 负责人: Martha Gregg
• 金额: $ 29.98万
• 依托单位: Augustana University Association
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1439844&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Robert; Noyce; Capacity; Building; Proposal

With funding from the National Science Foundation's Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, this project will address the established and growing national need to improve quantity and increase quality of the high school teaching workforce in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, will work closely with partner institutions to build an infrastructure to: (i) recruit and educate students to become highly qualified STEM high school teachers, especially for high-needs schools and (ii) provide several levels of support for future and current STEM teachers. A particular focus will be to educate and support Native American students to become STEM teachers. The Project Team from Augustana College will work closely with personnel from partner institutions, which include tribal colleges Sisseton Wahpeton College and Sinte Gleska University as well as Iowa Lakes Community College to reach out to high-needs high schools in the Sioux Falls Public Schools and surrounding rural and remote districts to provide special opportunities for students from all of these institutions to become STEM teachers and then to place these teachers in high-needs areas. The process will include building capacity to provide educational, mentoring, and financial support for future STEM teachers and networking opportunities for current and future teachers. The investigators will take a comprehensive approach to restructure the STEM secondary education program at Augustana College to implement initiatives that feature two main components: (1) the recruitment and support of a diverse pool of talented high school and community college students with an interest in becoming high school science and mathematics teachers and (2) the development and inclusion of an innovative interdisciplinary STEM major that will allow any graduate to teach more competently across the STEM disciplines. The support component will include longitudinal mentorship and financial support throughout college training and into the professional classroom, and will also include the creation of STEM Teachers' Network to serve as a mentorship and professional development entity for both current and future teachers. The interdisciplinary program will include significant coursework spanning the STEM fields of biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics as well as a STEM disciplinary emphasis area in one of these fields. A critical aspect of student academic training in this program will be the inclusion of cultural competence for teachers to enhance a teacher's ability to navigate a diverse cultural landscape with empathy and introspection, and to evaluate and interpret cultural encounters with students, to lead to a better understanding of both verbal and non-verbal communication in a learning context. As part of this Robert Noyce Capacity Building project, the Project Team will begin the process of addressing data needs and conducting research on how cultural competency training for pre-service STEM teachers influence teaching and learning outcomes in the high school classroom, especially for rural areas and areas with diverse populations.

在国家科学基金会罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划的资助下，该项目将满足国家对提高科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）高中教师队伍数量和质量的既定和不断增长的需求。位于南达科他州苏福尔斯的奥古斯塔纳学院将与合作机构密切合作，建立基础设施，以：（i）招募和教育学生成为高素质的STEM高中教师，特别是对于高需求的学校;（ii）为未来和现任STEM教师提供多层次的支持。一个特别的重点将是教育和支持美国原住民学生成为STEM教师。奥古斯塔纳学院的项目小组将与伙伴机构的人员密切合作，其中包括部落学院西塞顿瓦佩顿学院和圣格莱斯卡大学以及爱荷华州湖泊社区学院，以达到高-需要在苏福尔斯公立学校和周边农村和偏远地区的高中，为所有这些机构的学生提供特殊的机会，成为STEM教师，然后放置这些教师在高需求地区。该过程将包括能力建设，为未来的STEM教师提供教育，指导和财政支持，并为当前和未来的教师提供网络机会。调查人员将采取全面的方法来重组奥古斯塔纳学院的STEM中学教育计划，以实施具有两个主要组成部分的举措：（1）招募和支持有兴趣成为高中科学和数学教师的有才华的高中和社区大学学生的多元化人才库，以及（2）开发和纳入创新的跨学科STEM专业，使任何毕业生都能在STEM学科中更胜任地教学。支持部分将包括整个大学培训和专业课堂的纵向指导和财政支持，还将包括创建STEM教师网络，作为现任和未来教师的指导和专业发展实体。跨学科计划将包括跨越生物学，化学，数学和物理学的STEM领域的重要课程，以及这些领域之一的STEM学科重点领域。学生学术培训的一个重要方面将是教师的文化能力，以提高教师的能力，以同情和反省的方式浏览不同的文化景观，并评估和解释与学生的文化接触，从而更好地理解学习环境中的语言和非语言交流。作为罗伯特·诺伊斯能力建设项目的一部分，项目团队将开始解决数据需求的过程，并就职前STEM教师的文化能力培训如何影响高中课堂的教学和学习成果进行研究，特别是在农村地区和人口多样化的地区。