NRT IGE: Pedagogical Readiness Oversight for Future Educators in STEM Subjects (PROFESS)

NRT-IGE：STEM学科未来教育工作者的教学准备监督(教授)许多科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)专业的研究生都希望获得教职，但很少有STEM毕业生实习生获得与学术或其他职业发展相关的正式职业发展机会。然而，已经证明，从事教学和研究相结合可以促进研究生？在不增加毕业时间的情况下，获得与研究相关的技能。这项授予德雷克塞尔大学的国家科学基金会研究生教育创新(IGE)研究培训(NRT)奖是一项试点，旨在满足开发机制以培养STEM研究生以有效地教授本科生的需求。该项目将开发和测试一种新的研究生教育模式，使学生能够在毕业生涯中接受教育方法培训，并获得STEM教育方面的额外高级学位。该项目将通过四个目标支持STEM研究生作为教育工作者的专业发展，以(1)以循证教学方法培训研究生，(2)为STEM研究生提供一个机制，让他们在自己选择的技术博士学位之外，获得本科STEM教育硕士学位，(3)保持学生对不同专业的兴趣，以及(4)支持教师发展。该计划将利用全国UTeach项目模式，目前正通过Dragon Teach项目在德雷克塞尔大学本科生层面复制这种模式。包括顶峰实习、指导活动和新学位课程在内的新课程将作为STEM教育和内容教师之间的跨大学合作开发，并将强调深入的教学知识和基于研究的教学法的重要性。为了评估这一试点项目，作为研究生项目的一部分，我们将收集关于学生的结果和看法、教师的看法以及教学培训的价值和成本的数据，以确定这种模式是否可持续并可转移到其他机构。NSF研究培训(NRT)计划旨在鼓励为STEM研究生教育培训开发和实施大胆、新的、潜在的变革性和可扩展的模式。研究生教育创新轨道专门致力于试验、测试和评估研究生教育的新颖、创新和潜在的变革性方法。

NRT-IGE: Pedagogical Readiness Oversight for Future Educators in STEM Subjects (PROFESS)Faculty careers are desirable to many graduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), yet few STEM graduate trainees are provided with formal opportunities for career development related to academic or other career outcomes. However, it has been demonstrated that engaging in teaching in conjunction with research can promote graduate students? skills relevant to research, without increasing the time to graduation. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award in Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) to Drexel University is a pilot to address the need to develop mechanisms to train STEM graduate students to effectively teach undergraduate students. This project will develop and test a new model of graduate education that will enable students to train in educational methods as part of their graduate career and earn an additional advanced degree in STEM education. The project will support the professional development of STEM graduate students as educators through four targeted goals to (1) train graduate students in evidence-based pedagogical approaches, (2) provide a mechanism for STEM graduate students to earn an MS in Undergraduate STEM Education in addition to their chosen technical PhD, (3) maintain student interest in diverse careers in the professoriate, and (4) support faculty development. The program will leverage the national UTeach program model, currently being replicated at the undergraduate level at Drexel University through the DragonsTeach program. The new courses, including a capstone internship, mentoring activities, and the new degree program will be developed as a cross-university collaboration among STEM education and content faculty and will emphasize the importance of deep content knowledge and research-based pedagogy. To evaluate this pilot, data will be collected on student outcomes and perceptions, faculty perceptions, as well as the value and costs of the pedagogical training as part of a graduate program to determine whether this model is sustainable and transferrable to other institutions.The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, potentially transformative, and scalable models for STEM graduate education training. The Innovations in Graduate Education Track is dedicated solely to piloting, testing, and evaluating novel, innovative, and potentially transformative approaches to graduate education.