Michigan Master Teacher Fellows Program

这个Track 3 Noyce项目，密歇根硕士教师计划（MTP），将研究一种潜在的可扩展方法，旨在提高学校，地区和州的中学STEM教师的领导能力。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经验。该项目旨在扭转美国学生在STEM方面的成绩落后于其他工业化国家的趋势。MTP将培养一支由20名中学STEM教师组成的骨干队伍，他们被选中的原因是他们有潜力领导当地和全州的STEM教育改革工作。MTP可以作为其他国家努力的典范，因为它有可能产生一个由教师组成的自我维持的专业学习网络，这些教师可以在很少的外部援助下推进该项目。该项目独特地建立在一个由密歇根州科学教学和评估改革（Mi-STAR）计划组成的以改革为重点的个人和组织组成的全州网络的基础上。MTP将侧重于中学水平，强调科学的应用和与密歇根州学生及其家庭相关的现实问题。为了实施MTP，密歇根理工大学将与急需的卡拉马祖公立学校和萨吉诺公立学校，以及两个非营利组织：密歇根科学教师协会和密歇根地球科学教师协会合作。MTP将为两组提供财政支持：10名拥有各自领域硕士学位的硕士教学研究员和10名拥有STEM学科学士学位的研究员，他们也在该机构的应用科学教育理学硕士课程中注册。在完成最初的专业学习培训后，拥有硕士学位的研究员将在他们所在的学校和地区担任领导职位，并将作为攻读硕士学位的MTP教师的导师。MTP将为攻读硕士学位的研究员在其学校和地区承担越来越高的领导水平做好准备。该项目的一个成果将是培养教师领袖，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导群体，MTP有可能促进密歇根州高需求学校学生学习成果的改善。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.