Michigan Master Teacher Fellows Program

该Track 3 Noyce项目，密歇根州硕士教师计划(MTP)，将调查一种潜在的可扩展的方法，旨在提高中学STEM教师在其学校、学区和州的领导能力。该项目将包括学术培训，以及持续的专业学习、领导力发展和专业网络体验。该项目旨在扭转美国学生在STEM成绩落后于其他工业化国家这一有据可查的趋势。MTP将培养一支由20名中学STEM教师组成的干部队伍，他们是根据他们领导地方和全州STEM教育改革努力的潜力而被选中的。中期计划可作为其他国家努力的典范，因为它有可能形成一个自给自足的专业学习网络，由教师组成，他们可以在几乎没有外部援助的情况下推进该项目。该项目独特地建立在密歇根州科学教学和评估改革(Mi-STAR)计划中以改革为重点的个人和组织组成的全州范围内的成熟网络之上。MTP将重点放在中学水平，并强调科学的应用和与密歇根州学生及其家庭相关的现实世界问题。为了实施MTP，密歇根理工大学将与高需求的卡拉马祖公立学校和萨吉诺公立学校以及两个非营利性组织合作：密歇根州科学教师协会和密歇根州地球科学教师协会。MTP将为两个群体提供资金支持：十名在各自领域拥有硕士学位的硕士教学研究员和十名拥有STEM学科学士学位的研究员，他们也参加了该机构的应用科学教育硕士课程。在完成最初的专业学习培训后，拥有硕士学位的研究员将进入所在学校和地区的领导职位，并将担任MTP教师攻读硕士学位的导师。MTP将为攻读硕士学位的研究员做好准备，以便在他们的学校和地区承担起越来越高的领导水平。该项目的一个成果将是产生教师领导者，他们准备帮助其他教师有效地实施“三维”教学实践，这是下一代科学标准和密歇根科学标准对学生的表现期望。通过培养这些教师领袖，MTP有可能促进密歇根州高需求学校学生学习成果的改善。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Track 3 Noyce project, Michigan Master Teacher Program (MTP), will investigate a potentially scalable approach that aims to increase the leadership abilities of middle school STEM teachers in their schools, districts, and state. The project will include academic training, as well as sustained professional learning, leadership development, and professional networking experiences. The project aims to reverse the well-documented trend of U.S. student achievement in STEM falling behind that of other industrialized nations. MTP will prepare a cadre of 20 middle school STEM teachers, selected for their potential to lead local and statewide STEM education reform efforts. MTP may serve as a model for other national efforts because it has the potential to produce a self-sustaining professional learning network consisting of teachers who can carry the project forward with little external aid. The project uniquely builds on an established statewide network of reform-focused individuals and organizations that are part of the Michigan Science Teaching and Assessment Reform (Mi-STAR) program. MTP will focus on the middle school level and emphasize applications of science and to real-world problems that are relevant to students and their families in Michigan. To implement MTP, Michigan Technological University will collaborate with high-need Kalamazoo Public Schools and Saginaw Public Schools, and with two non-profit organizations: Michigan Science Teacher Association and Michigan Earth Science Teacher Association. MTP will provide financial support for two cohorts: ten Master Teaching Fellows with master's degrees in their field and ten Fellows with bachelor's degrees in a STEM discipline, who are also enrolled in the institution's Master of Science in Applied Science Education. Upon completion of the initial professional learning training, Fellows with a master's degree will move into leadership positions in their schools and districts and will also serve as mentors for MTP teachers pursuing a master's degree. MTP will prepare Fellows pursuing a master's degree to assume increasing levels of leadership in their schools and districts. An outcome of the project will be its production of teacher-leaders who are prepared to help other teachers effectively implement "three-dimensional" instructional practices, which are performance expectations for students in the Next Generation Science Standards and Michigan Science Standards. By developing these cohorts of teacher-leaders, MTP has the potential to promote improvements in students' learning outcomes in high-need schools in Michigan.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.