STEM Teacher Leadership Network

STEM教师是学校内出色的合作者，分享他们的见解和最佳实践，并开发挑战学生的课程和课程。伟大的老师都是这么做的。 然而，在我们的数字世界中，教师之间的在线互动在很大程度上是偶发的，有时，在社交媒体平台上，过于短暂。 我们的项目将为STEM教师领导者和有抱负的教师领导者开发和促进互动学习社区和学院网络。 我们的STEM教师领导网络（STEMTLnet）建立在NSF过去的工作基础上，将使教师领导者能够访问并受益于一个值得信赖的社区，该社区提供与领导力，指导，课堂创新和干预以及广泛的STEM主题内容和教学知识相关的最新资源。教师领导者将受益于支持系统，参与那些从自己和其他领导计划。 领导人将受益于有一个论坛，分享查询，征求意见，并提供专业知识。 有抱负和新认可的教师将向那些有更多经验的人学习。这一教师领导人互动社区将服务于多个教师领导社区，包括但不限于：（a）数学和科学教学优秀总统奖，以及科学、数学和工程指导优秀总统奖;（B）国家科学基金会罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金方案的主要研究者和参与者，以及通过国家科学基金会多个数学和科学伙伴关系项目培养的教师领导人;以及（c）多个其他方案的研究员和接受者，包括：阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦奖学金计划，诺尔斯科学教学奖学金，美国数学教师奖学金计划，富布赖特杰出奖教学计划，年度STEM教师，NSTA/NCTM STEM大使计划，以及国家科学院教师咨询理事会的校友。虽然我们的主要观众将是总统奖获得者，但我们的愿景是包容性的，我们将邀请那些谁是，或已经，任何上述计划的一部分，因为他们有很多提供。 我们设想这个互动的专业学习社区作为一个地方，教师领导者彼此分享他们的领导路径;他们的新兴能力，影响学校，地区，州和国家政策的积极变化;他们的挑战，战略，经验教训，资源，以及他们的影响。多模式网络将促进团体之间的交流，同时也为特定方案的领导人为自己的选民创建团体提供了可能性。研究和评估将告知该领域的在线社区的潜在好处，以促进，促进和支持教师领导的许多种类。 此外，我们将研究PAEMST获奖者的特定子组所获得的好处。该奖项符合NSF战略目标1：扩展科学，工程和学习知识;和NSF战略目标2：提高国家应对当前和未来挑战的能力。该项目的资金由科学与工程计划卓越奖和罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金提供该奖项反映了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。

STEM teachers are remarkable collaborators within their schools, sharing their insights and best practices, and developing lessons and curricula that challenge their students. That's what great teachers do. Online interaction among teachers in our digital world, however, is largely episodic and sometimes, in the case of social media platforms, all too brief. Our project will develop and facilitate an interactive learning community and collegial network for STEM teacher leaders and aspiring teacher leaders. Our STEM Teacher Leadership Network (STEMTLnet) builds on past work for NSF and will allow teacher leaders to access and benefit from a trusted community that provides up to date resources related to leadership, mentoring, classroom innovations and interventions as well as content and pedagogical knowledge across broad STEM topics. Teacher leaders will benefit from a support system, engaging those from their own and other leadership programs. Leaders will benefit by having a forum to share queries, requests for advice, and by providing expertise. Aspiring and newly recognized teachers will learn from and with those having more experience. This interactive community for teacher leaders will serve multiple teacher leadership communities, including, but not limited to: (a) Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST), as well as the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM); (b) Principal investigators and participants in NSF's Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program and teacher leaders developed through multiple NSF Math and Science Partnership projects; and (c) Fellows and recipients of multiple other programs, including: Albert Einstein Fellowship program, Knowles Science Teaching Fellowships, Math for America Teacher Fellowship Program, Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program, STEM Teachers of the Year, NSTA/NCTM STEM Ambassadors program, and alumni of the National Academies Teacher Advisory Council.Although our primary audience will be Presidential Awardees, our vision is inclusive, and we will invite those who are, or have been, part of any of the above programs as they have much to offer. We envision this interactive professional learning community as a place where teacher-leaders share with each other their paths to leadership; their emerging capacity to influence school, district, state and national policy for positive change; their challenges, strategies, lessons learned, resources, and the impact they have had. The multi-modal network will facilitate cross-talk between groups, while also providing the possibility for leaders of particular programs to create groups for their own constituents. Research and evaluation will inform the field of the potential benefits of an online community to promote, facilitate, and support teacher leadership of many kinds. In addition, we will study the benefits accrued to a particular subgroup that of PAEMST awardees.This award comports with NSF Strategic Goal 1: Expand knowledge in science, engineering, and learning; and NSF Strategic Goal 2: Advance the capability of the Nation to meet current and future challenges.Funding for this project is provided by the Excellence Awards in Science and Engineering program and the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program.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.