Collaboration for Opportunities in and Advancement of STEM Teaching and Learning

合作促进 STEM 教学的机会和进步

• 批准号: 1852798
• 负责人: Darby Feldwinn
• 金额: $ 141.43万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1852798&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaboration; Opportunities; Advancement; STEM; Teaching

With support from the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce), this Track 1: Scholarships and Stipends project at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) aims to serve the national need to prepare high-quality science teachers for high-need school districts. In partnership with Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara Unified School District, and the Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation (MOXI), UCSB intends to develop science teachers who will be highly effective in teaching both science and engineering to culturally and linguistically diverse students. Through field placements and coursework, the project will engage undergraduate interns and Teacher Candidate Scholars to be effective in using the Next Generation Science Standards. This goal will be accomplished by emphasizing convergent science, which includes the merging of ideas, approaches, and technologies among the disciplines of science and engineering. The recruitment strategies include career guidance, exposure to exceptional educator role models, information about career opportunities, one-on-one mentoring, and targeted assistance for community college students transferring to a four-year university. The expected outcomes of the project include: (1) encouraging STEM undergraduates to consider teaching as a career and supporting post-baccalaureate students with degrees in a STEM discipline to become certified as teachers; (2) increasing UCSB's production of thoroughly trained, highly respected science teachers; (3) graduating Scholars with the knowledge and skills needed to grow innovative science programs in their own high-need schools; and (4) disseminating strategies found effective in both preparing exceptional science teachers and teaching convergent science to all students in high-need schools.Over its five-year duration, the project aims to support 24 STEM undergraduates in internships and produce 52 beginning secondary science teachers with baccalaureate STEM degrees and teaching certification. The project will make a concerted effort to attract high-achieving students who are first generation college students, underrepresented students, English learners, and/or transfer students from community colleges. To recruit and prepare diverse undergraduate interns and teacher candidates, UCSB will collaborate with both MOXI and the Dos Pueblos High School's Engineering Academy (DPEA), located in the high-needs Santa Barbara Unified School District, with the goal of integrating convergence science in the teacher certification program. Undergraduates will complete a yearlong internship to learn about teaching convergent science. During the internship, they will be placed at DPEA and MOXI, as well as enroll in an introductory science education course at UCSB. In addition to their regular teacher education coursework and field experiences, teacher Candidate Scholars will participate in an Industrial and Technology Education methods course at DPEA and attend field trips to MOXI. Through these efforts, the project aims to produce reform-based, equity-minded science teachers who will provide California's diverse secondary school students with greater access to an excellent and innovative STEM education. The Noyce program supports talented STEM undergraduate majors and professionals to become effective K-12 STEM teachers and experienced, exemplary K-12 STEM teachers to become STEM master teachers in high-need school districts. It also supports research on the persistence, retention, and effectiveness of K-12 STEM 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Robert Noyce教师奖学金计划（Noyce）的支持下，加州大学圣巴巴拉分校（UCSB）的第1条：奖学金和津贴项目旨在满足国家为高需求学区培养高质量科学教师的需求。加州大学圣巴巴拉分校与圣巴巴拉城市学院、圣巴巴拉联合学区和沃尔夫探索与创新博物馆（MOXI）合作，打算培养科学教师，他们将在向文化和语言不同的学生教授科学和工程方面非常有效。通过实地实习和课程作业，该项目将吸引本科生实习生和教师候选学者，以有效地使用下一代科学标准。这一目标将通过强调融合科学来实现，其中包括科学和工程学科之间的思想、方法和技术的融合。招聘策略包括职业指导、接触杰出教育工作者的榜样、提供职业机会信息、一对一指导，以及为社区大学生转学到四年制大学提供有针对性的帮助。该项目的预期成果包括：(1)鼓励STEM本科生将教学作为职业，并支持持有STEM学科学位的学士后学生成为合格教师；(2)加强UCSB培养训练有素、受人尊敬的理科教师；(3)毕业生具备在自己的高需求学校开展创新科学项目所需的知识和技能；(4)传播策略在培养优秀的科学教师和向高需求学校的所有学生教授趋同科学方面都是有效的。该项目为期五年，旨在支持24名STEM本科生实习，培养52名具有STEM学士学位和教师证书的初级中学科学教师。该项目将共同努力吸引成绩优异的第一代大学生、代表性不足的学生、英语学习者和/或来自社区大学的转校生。为了招募和培养多样化的本科生实习生和教师候选人，UCSB将与MOXI和Dos Pueblos高中工程学院（DPEA）合作，目标是将融合科学纳入教师认证计划。本科生将完成为期一年的实习，学习如何教授融合科学。在实习期间，他们将被安排在DPEA和MOXI，以及UCSB的科学教育入门课程。除了常规的教师教育课程和实地经验外，教师候选人学者还将参加DPEA的工业和技术教育方法课程，并参加MOXI的实地考察。通过这些努力，该项目旨在培养以改革为基础、具有公平意识的科学教师，他们将为加州多样化的中学生提供更多接受优秀和创新STEM教育的机会。Noyce计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人士成为有效的K-12 STEM教师，并支持经验丰富的模范K-12 STEM教师成为高需求学区的STEM硕士教师。它还支持对高需求学区K-12 STEM教师的持久性、留任性和有效性的研究。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。