Breaking the Cycle: Preparing Future STEM Teachers for the Highest Need Urban Schools by Embracing Culturally-responsive Instruction

打破循环：通过采用文化响应式教学，为最需要的城市学校培养未来的 STEM 教师

• 批准号: 1660776
• 负责人: Laird Kramer
• 金额: $ 119.95万
• 依托单位: Florida International University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-05-15 至 2024-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1660776&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Breaking; Cycle; Preparing; Future; STEM

The Track 1 Noyce project at Florida International University (FIU), "Breaking the cycle: Preparing future STEM teachers for the highest need urban schools by embracing culturally responsive instruction", will substantially increase the number of highly qualified teachers prepared to serve in high-need school districts. The project will recruit, prepare, administer two-year scholarships and facilitate induction for 33 Scholars over the five-year project. FIU, an urban public research university with over 54,000 students, is partnering with Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the fourth largest school district in the nation serving over 350,000 students, to establish the project testbed in highly diverse Miami, Florida. The project embraces the diversity of FIU's student body, over 78% of which are from historically underrepresented groups, and develops their culturally responsive instructional practices so they are prepared to break the cycle of persistent low achievement as future education leaders in the highest need schools. In parallel, the project will establish a dissemination model to enable adoption and adaptation across the nation.The project targets developing critical teaching agency in Noyce Scholars in order to prepare them to serve in critical needs school via authentic community-based learning focused on three major activities: 1) Authentic Field Experiences in Critical Needs Schools, 2) Cohort Experience and 3) Research and Instructional Internships. Noyce Scholars will be primarily recruited through the FIUteach program, FIU's high-fidelity replication of the UTeach teacher preparation model that has developed into one of the nation's largest UTeach replication sites. Upon induction, Scholars will receive dedicated support including 1) a paid on-site mentor, 2) Master Teacher coaching visits, 3) professional development and 4) Alumni meetings, all complementing the induction support of the district and school. The project's research and evaluation activities seek to understand how to recruit and prepare future science and mathematics teachers to be effective in the highest needs schools, how to support their induction into these schools, and how the Scholar's classroom practice progresses over the project. The project will also investigate the development of teacher identity and critical agency for teaching during both the Scholarship and induction phases of Noyce Scholars careers. Thus, the project will generate critical insight into best practices for how to prepare preservice teachers to serve in diverse, urban schools.

佛罗里达国际大学（FIU）的Track 1 Noyce项目“打破循环：通过文化响应教学为最需要的城市学校培养未来的STEM教师”，将大大增加高素质教师的数量，为高需求学区服务。该项目将在为期五年的项目中招募、准备、管理为期两年的奖学金，并为33名学者的入职提供便利。FIU是一所拥有54,000多名学生的城市公立研究型大学，它正在与迈阿密-戴德县公立学校合作，在佛罗里达州高度多样化的迈阿密建立项目测试平台。迈阿密-戴德县公立学校是美国第四大学区，拥有超过35万名学生。该项目涵盖了FIU学生群体的多样性，其中超过78%的学生来自历史上代表性不足的群体，并发展了他们的文化响应教学实践，以便他们准备打破持续低成就的循环，成为未来最高需求学校的教育领导者。同时，该项目将建立一种传播模式，以便在全国范围内采用和适应。该项目的目标是在Noyce学者中发展关键教学机构，以便通过真正的社区学习，为他们在关键需求学校服务做好准备，主要包括三个主要活动：1)关键需求学校的真实实地体验，2)队列体验和3)研究和教学实习。Noyce学者将主要通过FIU的UTeach项目招募，该项目是FIU对UTeach教师培训模式的高保真复制，已发展成为美国最大的UTeach复制网站之一。在入职后，学者将获得专门的支持，包括1)付费的现场导师，2)大师教师辅导访问，3)专业发展和4)校友会议，所有这些都是对地区和学校的入职支持的补充。该项目的研究和评估活动旨在了解如何招募和培养未来的科学和数学教师，以便在最高需求的学校发挥作用，如何支持他们进入这些学校，以及学者的课堂实践如何在项目中取得进展。该项目还将调查在诺伊斯学者职业生涯的奖学金和入职阶段，教师身份和教学关键机构的发展。因此，该项目将对如何培养职前教师在不同的城市学校服务的最佳实践产生重要见解。