Collaborative Research: The Next Generation of STEM Teacher Preparation in Washington State

下一代STEM教师准备项目由华盛顿州的五所高等教育机构领导。 这项合作努力将使参与STEM学科教师准备的机构，华盛顿州公共教学总监办公室，P-12教育工作者以及来自企业，政府和非政府组织（NGO）的其他关键利益相关者参与进来，在全州范围内实现各级STEM教师准备的可持续变革。 该项目从孤立的，单一的机构计划改进工作，到华盛顿州的学院和大学与两年制学院，P-12学校，社区团体和企业合作，共同努力改善STEM教师的准备。该项目将培养更多高素质的P-12级科学和数学教师，包括一批准备教授计算机科学和工程的新教师。此外，该项目旨在通过积极招聘和激励来自2年制和4年制大学STEM专业的代表性不足的学生成为P-12初中和高中STEM教师来增加STEM教师队伍的多样性。 该项目的财政支持来自NSF的改善本科教育计划和罗伯特诺伊斯教师奖学金计划。为了改善华盛顿州的STEM教师准备计划（影响该州90%以上的未来STEM教师毕业生，2.增加招聘合格和多样化的STEM学生进入教学，以及3。创建一个自适应的，以研究为基础的模型，通过合作改善STEM教师的准备。为了实现这些目标，该项目将：（a）为华盛顿州的STEM教师准备创建一个共同愿景，（B）共享，开发，调整，实施和评估资源和模型，以实现这一愿景，以及（c）建立和评估持续，合作计划改进的模型。该项目将解决教师准备的关键组成部分包括：改善职前教师的临床实践和新教师的入职经验，提高职前教师的学科和STEM教学内容知识，并将计算机科学，工程和可持续性纳入教师准备。致力于改善每个组成部分的跨机构工作组将研究，创建和制作一套材料和专业发展研讨会。来自高等教育机构的教师和管理人员，P-12教育工作者以及STEM企业，非政府组织和政府机构的代表的区域团队将反过来调整这些材料和专业发展经验，以支持和维持STEM教师准备计划的改进。三个能力建设组成部分：组织变革，增加STEM教学队伍的多样性，以及合作建设，将成为每个工作组和区域团队努力的基础。

The Next Generation of STEM Teacher Preparation project is led by five institutions of higher education in Washington State. This collaborative effort will engage institutions involved in the preparation of teachers of STEM disciplines, Washington State's Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, P-12 educators, and other key stakeholders from business, government, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), in bringing about statewide sustainable change in the preparation of STEM teachers at all levels. The project moves away from isolated, single institutional program improvement efforts, to colleges and universities in Washington State working collaboratively to improve STEM teacher preparation in partnership with two-year colleges, P-12 schools, community groups, and businesses. The project will result in the production of more, highly qualified, P-12 science and mathematics teachers, including a new cadre of teachers prepared to teach computer science and engineering. In addition, the project seeks to increase the diversity of the STEM teacher workforce by actively recruiting and incentivizing underrepresented students from STEM majors at 2- and 4-year colleges to become P-12 middle and high school STEM teachers. Financial support for this project comes from NSF's Improving Undergraduate Education program and the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program.The project's primary goals are: 1. To improve STEM teacher preparation programs in Washington State (impacting greater than 90% of the state's future STEM teacher graduates,2. Increase recruitment of qualified and diverse STEM students into teaching, and3. Create an adaptive, research-based model for improving STEM teacher preparation through collaboration. To achieve these goals, the project will: (a) create a common vision for STEM teacher preparation in Washington State, (b) share, develop, adapt, implement, and evaluate resources and models to achieve this vision, and (c) build and assess a model of continuous, collaborative program improvement. The critical components of teacher preparation this project will address include: improving pre-service teachers' clinical practice and new teachers' induction experiences, improving the disciplinary and STEM pedagogical content knowledge of pre-service teachers, and integrating computer science, engineering, and sustainability into teacher preparation. Cross-institutional Working Groups dedicated to improving each component will research, create, and produce a set of materials and professional development workshops. Regional Teams of faculty and administrators from institutions of higher education, P-12 educators, and representatives from STEM businesses, NGOs, and government agencies, will in turn adapt these materials and professional development experiences to support and sustain STEM teacher preparation program improvements at their institutions. Three capacity-building components: organizational change, increasing the diversity of the STEM teaching workforce, and collaboration building, will underlie the efforts of every Working Group and Regional Team.