NebraskaSTEM: Supporting Elementary Rural Teacher Leadership

内布拉斯卡STEM：支持农村小学教师领导是一个Track 3硕士教学研究员项目，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能力。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学科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？加深STEM各学科的内容知识，并提高他们的教学实践和教学技能。因此，预计他们将能够更好地为学生打下基础。未来的学术成就。内布拉斯卡STEM将开设一个为期14个月的STEM教育专业基础教育文学硕士学位课程。它还将与教学硕士研究员合作，在他们授课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是内布拉斯加州STEM的一个强大特征，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。与Noyce项目如何提高农村小学STEM教师领导力相关的学位课程和研究结果将对其他小学教师项目具有潜在价值。从农村高需求小学招募15名经验丰富、具有示范性的小学教师，给予专业成长体验（含研究生课程）、教师领导指导，并给予1万美元/年的工资补助。在项目的第一年，他们将学习研究生课程。内布拉斯卡斯坦课程将导致硕士学位的人没有一个；具有硕士学位的硕士助教将少修一门课程，不写论文。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。没有先前教育研究课程的教学硕士研究员将学习培养研究技能的课程。二至五年级期间的持续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小学STEM领导能力的目的是对硕士教学研究员服务的学校、地区和地区产生积极影响。内布拉斯卡STEM硕士教学研究员和项目团队将建立并维护一个网站，用于推广和传播项目活动和结果，并在第2-5年期间制作视频，以记录和分享有关内布拉斯卡STEM硕士学位课程和硕士教学研究员STEM计划的信息。内布拉斯加州和全国的教师都可以从学术出版物、会议演讲和与内布拉斯加州农村学校的内布拉斯加州STEM计划和相关STEM计划相关的专业发展的传播中受益。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。

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.