NebraskaSTEM: Supporting Elementary Rural Teacher Leadership

内布拉斯加州STEM：支持小学农村教师领导力是一个轨道3硕士教学研究员项目，旨在提高农村小学教师的领导力，支持学生在STEM学科的成功经验。 该项目特别关注农村高需求学校的小学教师在提供丰富的STEM科目学习机会方面面临的挑战。 该计划旨在增加硕士教学研究员？在各个STEM学科的内容知识的深度，并提高他们的教学实践和教学技能。 这样一来，期望他们能更好地为学生打好基础？未来的学术成就NebraskaSTEM将创建一个为期14个月的基础教育文学硕士学位课程，专门从事STEM教育。它还将与硕士教学研究员合作，在他们任教的农村学校制定和实施STEM倡议（学校/社区STEM项目）。STEM内容领域的整合也将成为内布拉斯加州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学生的综合STEM学习。 学位课程和有关诺伊斯项目如何提高农村小学STEM教师领导力的研究结果将对其他小学教师项目具有潜在价值。 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），作为教师领导者进行指导，并每年提供10，000美元的工资补贴。 在第一个项目年，他们将参加研究生课程。 NebraskaSTEM课程将导致那些没有一个硕士学位;硕士教学研究员与硕士学位将采取少一门课程，不会写论文。 课程将包括四门STEM内容课程，一门教育学课程，一门以农村学校为重点的文化课程，以及多门领导力课程。 没有教育研究课程的硕士研究员将参加课程以培养研究技能。 在第二年至第五年期间进行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领导者。 在内布拉斯加州农村学校发展初级STEM领导能力的目的是积极影响学校，地区和硕士教学研究员服务的地区。 NebraskaSTEM硕士教学研究员和项目团队将建立和维护一个网站，用于推广和传播项目活动和成果，并在2-5年期间开发视频，以记录和分享有关NebraskaSTEM硕士学位课程和硕士教学研究员STEM举措的信息。 整个内布拉斯加州和全国的教师可以受益于传播的学术出版物，会议演示文稿，并在内布拉斯加州农村学校与NebraskaSTEM计划和相关的STEM倡议的专业发展。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得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的支持。

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.