Summer STEM Teaching Experiences for Undergraduates from Liberal Arts Institutions

文科院校本科生暑期 STEM 教学体验

• 批准号: 1525691
• 负责人: Charles Steinhorn
• 金额: $ 213.77万
• 依托单位: Vassar College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-15 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1525691&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Summer; STEM; Teaching; Experiences; Undergraduates

There is a well-documented national need for K-12 teachers with substantial content knowledge in the several STEM disciplines. In this regard, undergraduate STEM majors from liberal arts institutions are an under-tapped pool of potential STEM teachers. The Summer STEM Teaching Experiences for Undergraduates (TEU) program will provide undergraduate STEM majors from liberal arts colleges and universities with an immersive summer experience in secondary mathematics or science education. The TEU program will encourage these students to explore careers in K-12 STEM education via a high quality discipline specific pedagogy course integrated with a teaching practicum with a focus on urban education. Owing to the small size of many liberal arts institutions, a key challenge they face is how to provide their undergraduate STEM students with high quality courses and experiences that are focused on mathematics or science pedagogy. The TEU program is designed to fill this need. The mathematics TEU model has been piloted during the summers of 2013-2015 at Brown University as part of the Brown Summer High School program. Through this TEU project, the mathematics pilot will be joined by the science TEU. The project, led by faculty from Barnard College, Brown University, Bryn Mawr College, Trinity College and Vassar College will contribute to the intent of the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education-EHR effort in adding to the understanding associated with engaging STEM majors from liberal arts institutions in the K-12 enterprise. Over five summers, a total of 120 undergraduates (24 per year) will be recruited from a national network of sixty-one liberal arts institutions to take part in the 6-7 week TEU program. Each summer twelve undergraduate students will participate in the mathematics TEU program to be held at Brown University and twelve will participate in the science TEU program to be held at Trinity College. The teaching practicum, designed and taught by the TEU participants working under the supervision of master teacher mentors, will provide a summer enrichment course to approximately 1250 local high-need urban secondary students drawn from the Providence area and from the Hartford Middle Magnet Trinity College Academy. The TEU provides participants with the option to receive credit for the 60 hour pedagogy course. TEU participants will undertake a STEM leadership project at their home institution during the following academic year. TEU project investigators will engage in design and development research to explore the extent to which the TEU model, consisting of an immersive summer experience and teacher leadership project, affects the participants' preparation for teaching. Specific beneficial learner outcomes to be examined include: preservice teacher pedagogical knowledge, efficacy, effectiveness, and leadership. The research will employ a multiple-case study approach and a mixed-effects model to analyze the cumulative data. The data will include pre- and post-tests of participant knowledge of core course content, observational data, surveys and self-assessments collected from all participants, as well as semi-structured interviews and collection of artifacts of teaching from a smaller subset of TEU participants. What will be learned through the TEU model, and attendant educational research, will provide evidence for wide adoption and will contribute to the broader impacts of this project.

有一个有据可查的国家需要K-12教师在几个STEM学科的实质性内容的知识。在这方面，来自文科院校的本科STEM专业是潜在的STEM教师的一个未开发的池。本科生暑期STEM教学体验（TEU）计划将为文科学院和大学的本科STEM专业提供中学数学或科学教育的沉浸式暑期体验。TEU计划将鼓励这些学生通过高质量的学科特定教育学课程与教学实习相结合，探索K-12 STEM教育的职业生涯，重点是城市教育。由于许多文科院校规模较小，他们面临的一个关键挑战是如何为本科STEM学生提供专注于数学或科学教育学的高质量课程和经验。TEU计划旨在满足这一需求。数学TEU模型已在2013年至2015年的夏天在布朗大学作为布朗夏季高中计划的一部分进行了试点。通过这个TEU项目，数学试点将加入科学TEU。该项目由巴纳德学院，布朗大学，布林莫尔学院，Trinity学院和瓦萨学院的教师领导，将有助于改善本科STEM教育-EHR工作的意图，增加与K-12企业中文科机构的STEM专业相关的理解。在五个夏天，共有120名本科生（每年24名）将从61个文科院校的国家网络招募参加6-7周TEU计划。每年夏天，12名本科生将参加在布朗大学举行的数学TEU课程，12名将参加在Trinity College举行的科学TEU课程。教学实习，设计和TEU的参与者在大师导师的监督下工作授课，将提供一个夏季丰富课程，约1250名当地高需求的城市中学学生从普罗维登斯地区和哈特福德中磁铁Trinity学院。TEU为参与者提供60小时教学法课程的选择。TEU参与者将在下一学年在他们的家乡机构进行STEM领导项目。TEU项目研究人员将参与设计和开发研究，以探索TEU模型（包括沉浸式夏季体验和教师领导项目）在多大程度上影响参与者的教学准备。具体有益的学习者成果包括：副教师教学知识，效能，有效性和领导力。本研究将采用多个案研究方法及混合效应模式分析累积资料。这些数据将包括参与者对核心课程内容的知识的前测试和后测试，观察数据，从所有参与者那里收集的调查和自我评估，以及半结构化访谈和从TEU参与者的较小子集收集的教学工件。 通过TEU模型以及随之而来的教育研究所学到的东西将为广泛采用提供证据，并将有助于该项目产生更广泛的影响。