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。参与STEM学科教师培训的机构、华盛顿州公共教育监督办公室、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将参与这项合作，在全州范围内为各级STEM教师的培训带来可持续的变化。该项目从孤立的单一机构项目改进工作转向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，共同改善STEM教师的准备工作。该项目将培养出更多高素质的P-12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骨干教师。此外，该项目旨在通过积极招募和激励来自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。本项目由美国国家科学基金会改善本科教育计划和罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划提供资金支持。该项目的主要目标是：1。改善华盛顿州的STEM教师培训计划（影响该州90%以上的未来STEM教师毕业生）；2 .增加招收合格和多样化的STEM学生进入教学岗位；创建一个适应性的、基于研究的模式，通过合作改善STEM教师的准备工作。为了实现这些目标，该项目将：(a)为华盛顿州的STEM教师培养创造一个共同的愿景，(b)共享、开发、调整、实施和评估资源和模型，以实现这一愿景，(c)建立和评估一个持续、协作的项目改进模型。本项目将解决的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，改善职前教师的学科和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。致力于改进每个组成部分的跨机构工作组将研究、创建和生产一套材料和专业发展讲习班。由来自高等教育机构的教师和管理人员、P-12教育工作者、STEM企业、非政府组织和政府机构的代表组成的区域团队将依次改编这些材料和专业发展经验，以支持和维持其机构的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教学队伍的多样性和合作建设，将是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.