Collaborative Noyce Border Scholars Project along the Arizona-Mexico Border

亚利桑那州-墨西哥边境的诺伊斯边境学者合作项目

• 批准号: 1557396
• 负责人: Eric Meyer
• 金额: $ 144.69万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-04-01 至 2022-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1557396&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Noyce; Border; Scholars; Project

With funding from the National Science Foundation's Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program, the University of Arizona South/Cochise College Noyce Border Scholars project will recruit 36 recent undergraduates in STEM disciplines and 18 STEM professionals, and prepare them to become secondary and middle-school STEM teachers. In this project, the University of Arizona South (UAS) will be collaborating with 13 high-need school districts along the Arizona-Mexico border. The total student population is 35,000 in these districts. Utilizing such innovative professional development pathways as field experiences at University of Arizona's Biosphere 2, Math Teacher's Circles, and monthly Teacher Education Seminars, the project will improve STEM education within underserved border school districts and will provide insights that may be extended to similar border and rural settings around the nation. Scholars will receive the support of university coaches to provide guidance and support. The Noyce Border Scholars project will increase the number of highly qualified STEM teachers in border schools, with an emphasis on underrepresented minority teachers, encourage more STEM professionals to enter the profession, provide targeted teacher preparation through a redesigned Intern Certification track of the UAS M.Ed. program, support new teachers throughout a two-year induction period, with high quality professional development in STEM, and contribute to the body of research on innovation in teacher education.With its focus on culturally relevant professional development in support of culturally relevant teaching, the project will further develop the field of context-specific teacher education for STEM teachers in rural and border schools, address the critical shortage of STEM teachers in border area schools, advance knowledge through context-specific teacher education, and help to build the infrastructure of border schools to recruit and retain ethnically diverse and culturally competent STEM teachers. The project's emphasis on integrating research and education, backed with culturally competent pedagogy, will provide communities with teachers armed with the skills to impart the appreciation of STEM to their students. Societal benefits will include advancing student potential in a region characterized by poverty, a prevalence of English learners, and low educational achievement levels. Findings will be disseminated in publications and presentations reaching STEM educators in other underserved regions, and curricula and techniques will be shared with other professionals in teacher education programs, especially those that serve border and rural school districts. The project's intellectual merits will build on the successful teacher preparation program of the University of Arizona South's Transition to Teaching program. Throughout the life of the project, Noyce Border Scholars will report increased STEM content knowledge, increased knowledge and skills related to teaching in a multicultural environment, and increased STEM teaching self-efficacy, thereby improving the teaching environment in the culturally varied, economically challenged areas served by partner school districts.

在美国国家科学基金会罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划的资助下，亚利桑那大学南/科奇斯学院诺伊斯边境学者项目将招募36名STEM学科的应届本科生和18名STEM专业人员，并为他们成为中学STEM教师做好准备。在这个项目中，南亚利桑那大学（UAS）将与沿着亚利桑那州-墨西哥边境的13个高需求学区合作。这些地区的学生总数为35，000人。利用亚利桑那大学生物圈2号、数学教师圈和每月教师教育研讨会等创新的专业发展途径，该项目将改善服务不足的边境学区的STEM教育，并将提供可扩展到全国类似边境和农村环境的见解。学者将获得大学教练的支持，提供指导和支持。诺伊斯边境学者项目将增加边境学校高素质STEM教师的数量，重点是代表性不足的少数民族教师，鼓励更多的STEM专业人士进入该行业，通过重新设计的实习生认证轨道提供有针对性的教师准备UAS M.Ed.计划，在为期两年的入职期内支持新教师，在STEM方面进行高质量的专业发展，该项目的重点是与文化相关的专业发展，以支持与文化相关的教学，将进一步发展农村和边境学校STEM教师的特定背景教师教育领域，解决边境地区学校STEM教师严重短缺的问题，通过针对具体情况的教师教育来增进知识，并帮助建立边境学校的基础设施，以招聘和留住具有种族多样性和文化能力的STEM教师。该项目强调将研究和教育相结合，并以文化上胜任的教学法为后盾，将为社区提供具备向学生传授STEM欣赏技能的教师。社会效益将包括在一个以贫困、英语学习者普遍存在和教育成就水平低为特征的地区提高学生的潜力。调查结果将在其他服务不足地区的STEM教育工作者的出版物和演示文稿中传播，课程和技术将与教师教育计划中的其他专业人员分享，特别是那些服务于边境和农村学区的专业人员。该项目的智力优势将建立在亚利桑那大学南过渡到教学计划的成功教师准备计划的基础上。在整个项目的生命周期中，诺伊斯边境学者将报告增加STEM内容知识，增加与多元文化环境中教学相关的知识和技能，以及增加STEM教学自我效能，从而改善合作学区所服务的文化多样，经济困难地区的教学环境。