STEM Teacher Leadership Network

STEM教师是学校内部出色的合作者，他们分享自己的见解和最佳实践，并开发具有挑战性的课程和课程。这就是伟大的老师应该做的。然而，在我们的数字世界里，教师之间的在线互动在很大程度上是断断续续的，就社交媒体平台而言，有时太短暂了。我们的项目将为STEM教师领袖和有抱负的教师领袖建立和促进一个互动的学习社区和大学网络。我们的STEM教师领导力网络(STEMTLnet)建立在NSF过去工作的基础上，将允许教师领导者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、课堂创新和干预相关的最新资源，以及广泛的STEM主题的内容和教学知识。教师领导将受益于一个支持系统，吸引那些来自他们自己的和其他领导力项目的人。领导者将受益于有一个论坛来分享问题、寻求建议和提供专业知识。有抱负的和新获得认可的教师将向有更多经验的人学习，并与他们一起学习。这个教师领袖互动社区将服务于多个教师领袖社区，包括但不限于：(A)数学和科学教学卓越总统奖(PAEMST)以及总统科学、数学和工程卓越导师奖(PAESMEM)；(B)NSF罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划的主要研究员和参与者以及通过多个NSF数学和科学伙伴关系项目发展的教师领袖；和(C)多个其他计划的研究员和获奖者，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、富布赖特教学杰出奖、STEM年度教师、NSTA/NCTM STEM大使计划和国家学院教师顾问委员会的校友。尽管我们的主要受众将是总统获奖者，但我们的愿景是包容的，我们将邀请那些正在或曾经是上述任何计划的一部分的人，因为他们有很多可提供的东西。我们设想这个互动的专业学习社区是一个教师领袖相互分享他们的领导之路；他们正在形成的影响学校、地区、州和国家政策以实现积极变化的能力；他们的挑战、战略、经验教训、资源和他们所产生的影响的地方。多模式网络将促进群体之间的相互交谈，同时也为特定项目的领导者为他们自己的选民创建群体提供了可能性。研究和评估将向该领域通报在线社区的潜在好处，以促进、促进和支持多种类型的教师领导力。此外，我们还将研究PAEMST奖对特定小组的益处。该奖项符合NSF战略目标1：扩大科学、工程和学习方面的知识；以及NSF战略目标2：提高国家应对当前和未来挑战的能力。该项目的资金由卓越科学与工程奖计划和Robert Noyce教师奖学金计划提供。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力成就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.