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.

有充分的证据表明，国家需要在几个STEM学科中拥有丰富教学知识的K-12教师。在这方面，文科院校的本科STEM专业是一批未被充分开发的潜在STEM教师。面向本科生的暑期STEM教学体验(TEU)计划将为文科院校的STEM专业本科生提供沉浸式的中学数学或科学教育暑期体验。TEU计划将鼓励这些学生通过高质量的学科特定的教育学课程与专注于城市教育的教学实践相结合，在K-12 STEM教育领域探索职业生涯。由于许多文科院校规模较小，它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计划就是为了满足这一需求而设计的。作为布朗夏季高中项目的一部分，TEU数学模型已于2013-2015年的夏天在布朗大学进行了试点。通过这个TEU项目，科学TEU将加入数学试点。该项目由来自巴纳德学院、布朗大学、布林莫尔学院、三一学院和瓦萨学院的教职员工领导，将有助于改善本科生STEM教育-EHR工作的意图，增加与K-12企业吸引文科院校STEM专业人员相关的理解。在五个暑假期间，共有120名本科生(每年24名)将从61所文科院校的全国网络中招募，参加6-7周的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计划，12名本科生将参加在三一学院举行的理科TEU计划。该教学实习由TEU参与者在主要教师导师的监督下设计和授课，将为来自普罗维登斯地区和哈特福德中磁铁三位一体学院的约1250名当地高需求城市中学生提供暑期强化课程。TEU允许参与者选择接受60小时教育学课程的学分。TEU参与者将在下一学年在其母校开展STEM领导力项目。TEU项目调查员将从事设计和开发研究，以探索由身临其境的暑期体验和教师领导项目组成的TEU模式对参与者教学准备的影响程度。要考察的具体受益学习者结果包括：职前教师的教学知识、有效性、有效性和领导力。研究将采用多案例研究方法和混合效应模型来分析累积数据。这些数据将包括对参与者对核心课程内容的知识的前后测试、从所有参与者那里收集的观察数据、调查和自我评估，以及半结构化访谈和从较小一部分TEU参与者那里收集的教学手工艺品。通过TEU模式和随之而来的教育研究将学到什么，将为广泛采用提供证据，并将有助于该项目的更广泛影响。