Developing Math/Science Teacher Leadership: A Consensus Approach to Evaluating Program Quality

培养数学/科学教师的领导力：评估项目质量的共识方法

• 批准号: 1534698
• 负责人: Jody Bintz
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: BSCS Science Learning
• 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: 2015-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1534698&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Developing; Math; Science; Teacher; Leadership

This ECR synthesis project will build consensus on the key attributes of high-quality math/science teacher leadership development programs. The ECR program emphasizes fundamental STEM education research that generates foundational knowledge in the field. Investments are made in critical areas that are essential, broad and enduring: STEM learning and STEM learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development. The program supports the accumulation of robust evidence to inform efforts to understand, build theory to explain, and suggest intervention and innovations to address persistent challenges in STEM interest, education, learning and participation.The project objectives are to 1) review the literature on math/science teacher leadership development and descriptions of existing programs; 2) organize a symposium of knowledgeable practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to build consensus on attributes of quality programs; and 3) communicate the consensus attributes and recommendations for implementation and future work to stakeholders. The researchers argue that a workforce development systems approach to teacher leadership development considers not only training/development but also the systems and structures that shape it, including infrastructure development, organizational development, recruitment/retention, and research and evaluation. Thus, using a workforce development perspective, the researchers can look at how teacher leadership development is embedded within the system in which math/science teachers collectively work, noticing where there are advances, gaps, or deficiencies. The project will produce critical guidance for the design of teacher leadership development programs that is grounded in scholarship and exemplary practice and that represents consensus among leaders in the field. It will help decrease fragmentation across the math/science education system and facilitate more thoughtful connected approaches to teacher leadership development. The specific research questions are: 1) What patterns exist among attributes of math/science teacher leadership development programs? 2) What patterns exist in how leadership development programs define and measure program quality? 3) What evidence exists for the effectiveness of leadership development programs? The researchers will apply a coding scheme matched to the research questions and a two-coder process to analyze the information to test whether math/science teacher leadership programs predominantly focus a) on improving individual teachers? classroom practice to prepare them to serve as instructional leaders in their schools or districts and b) on developing teacher leaders (individuals) rather than building capacity for teacher leadership. They will include initially approximately 20-30 studies on this topic.

这个ECR综合项目将建立高质量的数学/科学教师领导力发展计划的关键属性的共识。ECR计划强调基础STEM教育研究，产生该领域的基础知识。 投资是在关键领域是必不可少的，广泛的和持久的：干学习和干学习环境，扩大参与干，干劳动力发展。 该项目支持积累强有力的证据，为理解、建立理论解释、提出干预和创新建议的努力提供信息，以解决STEM兴趣、教育、学习和参与方面的持续挑战。项目目标是：1）回顾有关数学/科学教师领导力发展的文献和现有项目的描述; 2）组织一个由知识渊博的从业者、研究人员和决策者组成的研讨会，就质量计划的属性建立共识; 3）向利益相关者传达共识属性和实施及未来工作的建议。研究人员认为，教师领导力发展的劳动力发展系统方法不仅考虑培训/发展，而且还考虑塑造它的系统和结构，包括基础设施发展，组织发展，招聘/保留，以及研究和评估。因此，使用劳动力发展的角度来看，研究人员可以看看教师领导力的发展是如何嵌入在系统中，数学/科学教师集体工作，注意有进步，差距，或不足。 该项目将为教师领导力发展计划的设计提供重要指导，该计划以奖学金和模范实践为基础，代表了该领域领导者的共识。 它将有助于减少整个数学/科学教育系统的碎片化，并促进教师领导力发展的更周到的联系方法。 具体的研究问题是：（1）数学/科学教师领导力发展项目的属性之间存在什么样的模式？2)领导力发展计划如何定义和衡量计划质量存在哪些模式？3)有什么证据可以证明领导力发展计划的有效性？研究人员将采用与研究问题相匹配的编码方案和两个编码器过程来分析信息，以测试数学/科学教师领导力项目是否主要关注a）提高教师个人？课堂实践，培养他们成为所在学校或地区的教学领导者; B）培养教师领导者（个人），而不是培养教师领导能力。最初将包括关于这一专题的大约20-30项研究。