Building a Community of Science Teacher Educators to Prepare Novices for Ambitious Science Teaching

科学教师教育工作者越来越一致地认为，需要一个共同的、以研究为基础的已完成的教学实践的愿景，需要能够有效地培养职前科学教师的教师教育方法，以支持所有背景的学生的科学学习。这次会议将聚集一群教师教育工作者，专注于职前教师教育和被称为雄心勃勃的科学教学的共同教学愿景。这次会议是朝着建立一个教师教育工作者社区迈出的关键的第一步，他们可以集体分享和完善为雄心勃勃的科学教学准备职前科学教师的战略、工具和实践。这次会议有两个目标。第一个目标是制定关于科学教师培训的有效教学方法的共同愿景和语言，重点是雄心勃勃的科学教学和以实践为基础的科学教师培训方法。第二个目标是发起一个专业社区，该社区可以生成、测试、修改和传播一系列资源(课程材料、工具、视频、教师教育者教学模式等)。支持教师教育工作者。探索研究K-12计划(DRK-12)旨在通过研究和开发创新资源、模型和工具(RMT)，显著提高K-12学龄前学生和教师在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)方面的学习和教学。DRK-12计划中的项目建立在STEM教育的基础研究和先前的研究和开发工作的基础上，为拟议的项目提供了理论和经验上的证明。这次会议将产生直接和长期的更广泛的影响。一个直接的影响是，这次会议将提出一个可行的研究议程，供与会者和该领域围绕雄心勃勃的科学教学和以实践为基础的教师教育展开讨论。这样的议程将有助于形成新的工作，涉及机构合作、教师培训计划和国家组织。这样的结果有可能立即影响会议参与者的工作和他们自己的教师培训计划。从长远来看，这次会议为与会者提供了一个机会，让他们考虑如何利用雄心勃勃的科学教学来解决科学教育和学校中的公平和社会正义问题。此外，这次会议的更广泛的影响将是传播一种以学生的想法和经验为教师工作的原材料的科学教学和以实践为基础的教师准备的愿景。

There is a growing consensus among science teacher educators of a need for a shared, research-based vision of accomplished instructional practice, and for teacher education pedagogies that can effectively prepare preservice science teachers to support the science learning of students from all backgrounds. This conference will bring together a group of teacher educators to focus on preservice teacher education and a shared vision of instruction called ambitious science teaching. This conference is a critical first step toward building a community of teacher educators who can collectively share and refine strategies, tools, and practices for preparing preservice science teachers for ambitious science teaching. The conference has two goals. The first goal is to develop a shared vision and language about effective pedagogy of science teacher preparation, focusing on ambitious science teaching and practice-based approaches to science teacher preparation. The second goal is to initiate a professional community that can generate, test, revise, and disseminate a set of resources (curriculum materials, tools, videos, models of teacher educator pedagogies, etc.) to support teacher educators. The Discovery Research K-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools (RMTs). Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects.There are immediate and long-term broader impacts that will result from this conference. One immediate impact is that this conference will set forth an actionable research agenda for the participants and the field to take up around ambitious science teaching and practice-based teacher education. Such an agenda will help shape new work, involving institutional collaborations,teacher preparation programs, and national organizations. Such an outcome has the potential to immediately impact the work of the conference participants and their own teacher preparation programs. In the long-term, this conference provides an opportunity for the participants to consider how to use ambitious science teaching to address issues of equity and social justice in science education and schools. In addition, the broader impacts of this conference will be to spread a vision of science teaching and practice-based teacher preparation in which students' ideas and experiences are the raw material of teachers' work.