Developing Science Leaders in High-Need Elementary Schools: Noyce Master Teaching Fellows Academy

Noyce Track 3：硕士教学奖学金(MTF)项目，培养高需求小学的科学领袖：Noyce硕士教学研究员学院，将解决STEM知识管道中的一个严重缺口--缺乏强有力的科学教学。该项目旨在通过向在成绩不佳、高度贫困的学校任教的小学教师提供1)学科和教学知识，使学生更有效地参与科学学习和成就，以及2)领导技能，发展强大的专业学习社区，支持和维持改进的小学科学教学，从而提高人们对有助于在关键小学年份建立科学学习基础的因素的认识。国家科学教师协会(NSTA)观察到，学习科学是一个累积的过程，需要在童年时期奠定坚实的基础。由于关注初级STEM教学的举措相对较少，该项目为积累和传播关于改善基础教育科学教育的最佳做法的独特知识提供了一个先导机会。项目成果不仅将为改善纽约市教室、学校和学区的科学教学和学习制定有效的战略，而且还将成为通过加强初级STEM教育来推动STEM取得更好成果的全国典范。斯塔滕岛学院(CSI)大师教学奖学金Noyce项目将招聘16名K-5经验丰富的模范小学教师，在纽约市第31区高需求、低表现的学校工作，并为他们成为该地区的科学教师领袖做好准备。该项目与非营利性组织史坦顿岛的MakerSpace合作，将使这些小学教师能够推进他们的科学教学，同时促进领导技能的发展，以创建一个具有集体能力的科学教师领导网络，以提高该地区高度需要的小学的科学教学质量。为了培养这些能力，该项目将让教师参与混合的、多组成部分的专业发展(PD)，其中包括：a)CSI基于内容的研究生课程，在CSI STEM教师的带领下，在校园内整合STEM研究/实验室经验；b)由CSI教育学院教师和探索学院的教师领导的教师领导力、课程和教学法领域的面对面培训；以及c)与项目教员和MTF同行进行在线和面对面的合作。PD还将包括一个以学校和外地为基础的部分，通过让参与教师向其所在学校和斯塔滕岛制造空间的同事提供STEM学习和教学讲习班，将其纳入参与教师的日常工作。通过重点关注教师在三个相互重叠的浪潮中的发展--教师作为科学学习者，教师作为科学教师，教师作为专业社区的促进者--该项目将培养教育工作者影响其个别教室和学校以及整个地区科学教学的能力。

This Noyce Track 3: Master Teaching Fellowships (MTF) project, Developing Science Leaders in High-Need Elementary Schools: Noyce Master Teaching Fellows Academy, will address a serious gap in the STEM knowledge pipeline - the dearth of strong science instruction. The project aims to increase understanding of factors that contribute to building a foundation for science learning in the critical elementary school years by providing elementary teachers who teach in underperforming, high-poverty schools with 1) the disciplinary and pedagogical knowledge to more effectively engage students in science learning and achievement and 2) the leadership skills to develop powerful professional learning communities that can support and sustain improved elementary science instruction. The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) observed that learning science is a cumulative process, requiring strong groundwork to be laid in childhood. Because relatively few initiatives focus on elementary level STEM instruction, this project provides a bellwether opportunity to accumulate and disseminate unique knowledge about best practices for improved elementary science education. Project results will not only shape effective strategies for improving science teaching and learning across New York City classrooms, schools, and districts, but also serve as a national model for driving better STEM outcomes through the enhancement of elementary STEM education. This College of Staten Island (CSI) Master Teaching Fellowships Noyce project will recruit 16 K-5 experienced and exemplary elementary teachers working in high-need, low performing schools in New York City's District 31 and prepare them to become science teacher leaders in this District. The project, in partnership with the non-profit Staten Island MakerSpace, will enable these elementary teachers to advance their science teaching while, simultaneously, facilitating development of leadership skills to create a network of science teacher leaders with the collective capacity to improve the quality of science teaching across the district's high-need elementary schools. To build these competencies, the project will engage teachers in a blended, multi-component Professional Development (PD) that includes: a) content-based graduate level courses at CSI with integrated STEM research/lab experiences on campus, led by CSI STEM faculty; b) face-to-face training led by CSI School of Education faculty and Discovery Institute experts in the fields of teacher leadership, curriculum, and pedagogy; and c) online and face-to-face collaboration with project faculty and MTF peers. The PD will also include a school and field-based component that is integrated into the daily work of participating teachers by involving them in delivering workshops in STEM learning and teaching to colleagues at their own schools and at the Staten Island MakerSpace. By focusing on teachers' development in three overlapping waves - teacher as science learner, teacher as science teacher, and teacher as facilitator of professional community - the project will develop educators' capacity to affect their individual classrooms and schools as well as district-wide science instruction.