Building Capacity towards Certification of Middle Grades STEM Teachers through Partnership, Needs Assessment, and Curriculum Revision

通过合作、需求评估和课程修订建设中级 STEM 教师认证能力

• 批准号: 1852813
• 负责人: Melva Grant
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: Old Dominion University Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-03-01 至 2021-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1852813&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Capacity; towards; Certification; Middle

With support from the NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, this Capacity Building project aims to serve the national interest in high-quality STEM teaching by exploring curricular changes and potential partnerships to increase the number of highly qualified middle school teachers in STEM fields. The project will revise existing STEM curricula at Old Dominion University to be compatible with requirements for middle school STEM licensure in at least two of three areas: mathematics, science, and technology. The project also seeks to continue a partnership with Tidewater Community College and pursue stronger relationships with local area schools: Chesapeake City Public Schools, Norfolk City Public Schools, Portsmouth City Public Schools, Suffolk City Public Schools, and Franklin County Public Schools. Three additional partners will also be targeted: Thomas Nelson Community College, Norfolk State University, and the National Institute of Aerospace - Center for Integrative STEM Education. In addition to establishing these important partner relationships in preparation for development of a Noyce Track 1 proposal, the primary activities of the project will be curriculum revision and needs assessment. The proposed curriculum revisions aim to prepare middle school teachers for licensure in science and mathematics. The revision process will be applied to the Ocean and Earth Science major and refined for use with additional STEM majors. Changes will occur in upper-division science courses as well as elective mathematics courses, which will be re-designed to focus on depth of content relevant for middle school teachers. Extensive needs assessment will examine existing data, conduct semi-structured interviews, and survey a large stratified sample of high school students, community college students and alumni, and current undergraduates regarding needs and barriers with respect to pursuit of careers in teaching. The new knowledge gained by these activities will be disseminated to support both local recruiting efforts and research on STEM teacher preparation. The Noyce program supports talented STEM undergraduate majors and professionals to become effective K-12 mathematics and science teachers in high-need school districts and experienced, exemplary K-12 STEM teachers to become STEM master teachers. It also supports research on the persistence, retention, and effectiveness of K-12 teachers in high-need school districts.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.

在NSF Robert Noyce教师奖学金计划的支持下，该能力建设项目旨在通过探索课程变化和潜在的合作伙伴关系来服务于高质量STEM教学的国家利益，以增加STEM领域高素质中学教师的数量。 该项目将修改旧自治领大学现有的STEM课程，使其在三个领域中的至少两个领域符合中学STEM许可证的要求：数学，科学和技术。 该项目还寻求继续与潮汐社区学院的伙伴关系，并寻求与当地学校加强关系：切萨皮克市公立学校，诺福克市公立学校，朴茨茅斯市公立学校，萨福克市公立学校和富兰克林县公立学校。另外三个合作伙伴也将成为目标：托马斯纳尔逊社区学院、诺福克州立大学和国家航空航天研究所-综合STEM教育中心。除了建立这些重要的合作伙伴关系，为诺伊斯第一轨道提案的制定做准备外，该项目的主要活动将是课程修订和需求评估。拟议的课程修订旨在为中学教师获得科学和数学执照做准备。修订过程将适用于海洋和地球科学专业，并与其他STEM专业一起使用。高年级科学课程和选修数学课程将发生变化，这些课程将重新设计，重点关注与中学教师相关的内容深度。广泛的需求评估将检查现有数据，进行半结构化访谈，并对高中生、社区大学学生和校友以及在校本科生的大量分层样本进行调查，了解他们在从事教学职业方面的需求和障碍。通过这些活动获得的新知识将被传播，以支持当地招聘工作和STEM教师准备研究。Noyce计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人士成为高需求学区的有效K-12数学和科学教师，并支持经验丰富、堪称典范的K-12 STEM教师成为STEM大师。该奖项反映了NSF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。