NebraskaSTEM: Supporting Elementary Rural Teacher Leadership

内布拉斯加州STEM：支持农村小学教师领导力是一个Track 3硕士研究生项目，旨在提高农村小学教师在支持STEM学科学生成功经验方面的领导力。该项目特别关注农村高中小学教师在提供丰富的STEM科目学习机会方面所面临的挑战。该计划旨在增加硕士研究生的教学研究员？在不同的STEM学科中提供深入的教学知识，并加强他们的教学实践和教学技能。因此，期望他们能够更好地为学生打好基础？未来的学术成就。内布拉斯加州STEM将开设一个为期14个月的初等教育艺术硕士学位课程，专业为STEM教育。它还将与主要教学研究员合作，在他们任教的农村学校制定和实施STEM倡议(基于学校/社区的STEM项目)。STEM内容领域的整合也将是内布拉斯加州STEM的一个强大功能，使教师能够以更综合的方式教授STEM，从而加强内布拉斯加州农村学校K-6学生的STEM综合学习。关于Noyce项目如何提高农村小学STEM教师领导力的学位计划和调查结果将对其他小学教师计划具有潜在价值。将从高需求的农村小学招聘15名经验丰富的模范小学教师，以获得专业成长经验(包括研究生课程)、作为教师领导进行指导，以及每年1万美元的工资补贴。在第一个项目年，他们将学习研究生课程。内布拉斯加州STEM的课程将为那些没有硕士学位的人带来硕士学位；拥有硕士学位的硕士助教将少选一门课程，而且不会写论文。课程将包括四门STEM内容课程、一门教育学课程、一门侧重于农村学校的文化课程和多门领导力课程。没有教育研究课程经验的硕士教学研究员将参加课程以发展研究技能。在第二年到第五年期间，持续的指导和专业发展将为MTF提供应用和分享其知识和技能的机会，因为他们在课堂上实施高质量的STEM教学，并在当地学校和社区担任STEM领导人。在内布拉斯加州农村学校发展小学STEM领导能力的目的是积极影响主要教学研究员所服务的学校、学区和地区。内布拉斯加州STEM硕士教学研究员和项目团队将建立和维护一个网站，用于扩展和传播项目活动和结果，并在2-5年内制作视频，记录和分享关于内布拉斯加州STEM硕士学位课程和硕士教学研究员STEM倡议的信息。内布拉斯加州和全国的教师可以从与内布拉斯加州农村学校STEM项目和相关STEM倡议相关的学术出版物、会议演讲和专业发展中受益。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

NebraskaSTEM: Supporting Elementary Rural Teacher Leadership is a Track 3 Master Teaching Fellow project that seeks to improve rural elementary teachers' leadership in supporting successful experiences for students in STEM disciplines. This project focuses specifically on challenges that elementary teachers in rural high-need schools face in providing rich learning opportunities in STEM subjects. The program aims to increase the Master Teaching Fellows? depth of content knowledge in the various STEM disciplines, and to enhance their instructional practices and pedagogical skills. As a result, it is expected that they will be better able to lay the foundation for the students? future academic success. NebraskaSTEM will create a 14-month Master of Arts degree program in elementary education with a specialization in STEM Education. It will also work with the Master Teaching Fellows to develop and implement STEM initiatives (school/community-based STEM projects) in the rural schools in which they teach. The integration of STEM content areas will also be a powerful feature of NebraskaSTEM, enabling teachers to teach STEM in more integrated ways, thus enhancing integrated STEM learning for K-6 students in rural Nebraska schools. The degree program and findings related to how a Noyce project can enhance rural elementary STEM teacher leadership will have potential value for other elementary teacher programs. Fifteen experienced, exemplary elementary teachers will be recruited from high-need rural elementary schools to receive professional growth experiences (including graduate coursework), mentoring as teacher leaders, and salary supplements of $10,000/year. During the first project-year, they will take graduate coursework. NebraskaSTEM coursework will lead to a master's degree for those without one; Master Teaching Fellows with master's degrees will take one less course and will not write a thesis. Coursework will include four STEM content courses, a pedagogy course, a culture course focused on rural schools, and multiple leadership courses. Master Teaching Fellows without prior coursework in education research will take courses to develop research skills. Ongoing mentorship and professional development during years two through five will provide MTFs with opportunities to apply and share their knowledge and skills as they implement high-quality STEM instruction in their classrooms and serve as STEM leaders in their local schools and communities. Developing elementary STEM leadership capacity in rural Nebraska schools is intended to positively affect the schools, districts, and regions in which the Master Teaching Fellows serve. NebraskaSTEM Master Teaching Fellows and the project team will establish and maintain a website for outreach and dissemination of the project activities and results, and develop videos during years 2-5 to document and share information about the NebraskaSTEM master's degree program and Master Teaching Fellows STEM initiatives. Teachers throughout Nebraska and the nation may benefit from the dissemination of scholarly publications, conference presentations, and professional development related to NebraskaSTEM programs and related STEM initiatives in rural Nebraska schools.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.