Pathways to Culturally Sustaining STEM Teaching

该项目将满足国家需要，培养和留住有效的K-12 STEM教师，这些教师精通以文化维系的方式教授STEM内容和技能。文化支持的教学寻求实现高水平的学生学习，同时尊重和建立学生的文化洞察力和经验。该项目将为STEM专业的学生和所有STEM学科的STEM专业人员提供有竞争力的奖学金。这些奖学金将支持这些诺伊斯学者获得STEM和/或教育学位并获得教师资格证书。该项目将侧重于向教师群体中任职人数不足的群体提供机会。诺伊斯学者将参加以股权为重点的研讨会，并接受指导，以培养他们以与文化相关的方式授课的能力。诺伊斯奖学金将在特别挑选的高需求学校的教室里授课，以最大限度地提高学者的学习和成功。在他们教学生涯的头两年，新教师将得到支持，以扩大他们的教学技能，并帮助他们继续教学。太平洋路德大学的这个项目包括与当地两个高需求学区--克洛弗公园和富兰克林·皮尔斯--建立合作伙伴关系。该项目支持两个进入教育硕士项目和教师认证的切入点：STEM本科生可以继续进入硕士项目，STEM毕业生可以直接进入硕士项目。项目目标包括：1)在五年内向21名学生提供奖学金；2)发展学者的STEM内容知识和文化能力，以教授不同的学习者；3)为新认证的STEM教师建立一个以研究为基础、以公平为导向的入门课程；以及4)改善合作伙伴学校地区合作，以满足职前和在职教师的需求。该项目建立在文化支持的数学和科学教学、教师教育和归纳研究的基础上。将这些领域结合起来的智力优势为培养和留住STEM教师提供了知识和实践基础，这些教师以雄心勃勃和适应文化的方式授课。更广泛的影响包括：促进STEM师范教育改革；培养高素质、注重公平的STEM教师；以及使STEM教师队伍多样化。为了扩大影响，将通过在地区和国家会议上的发言以及在STEM教育期刊上的出版物来传播所创建的材料和所获得的知识。这一轨道1：学者和津贴项目由罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划(Noyce)提供支持。Noyce计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人员成为有效的K-12 STEM教师，并支持经验丰富、模范的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、保留率和有效性的研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will address the national need to prepare and retain effective K-12 STEM teachers who are proficient at teaching STEM content and skills in culturally sustaining ways. Culturally sustaining teaching seeks to achieve high levels of student learning, while honoring and building upon students’ cultural perspectivess and experiences. The project will provide competitive scholarships to both STEM majors and STEM professionals from all STEM disciplines. The scholarships will support these Noyce Scholars as they earn STEM and/or education degrees and obtain teaching credentials. The project will focus on providing access to groups that are underrepresented in the teacher population. The Noyce Scholars will participate in equity-focused seminars and receive mentoring to develop their ability to teach in culturally relevant ways. The Noyce Scholars will have teaching placements in specifically selected high-need school classrooms, to maximize the Scholars’ learning and success. For the first two years of their teaching career, the new teachers will receive support to broaden their teaching skills and help them remain in teaching.This project at Pacific Lutheran University includes partnerships with two local high-need school districts, Clover Park and Franklin Pierce. The project supports two entry points into the Master of Arts in Education program and teacher certification: STEM undergraduates can continue into and STEM graduates can directly enter the master’s program. Project goals include: 1) Providing scholarships to 21 students over five years; 2) Developing the Scholar’s STEM content knowledge and cultural competency for teaching diverse learners; 3) Establishing a research-based, equity-oriented induction program for the newly certified STEM teachers; and 4) Improving partner school district collaboration to meet pre- and in-service teacher needs. The project builds upon culturally sustaining mathematics and science teaching, teacher education, and induction research. The intellectual merit of integrating these areas advances the knowledge and practice-base for the preparation and retention of STEM teachers who teach in ambitious and culturally responsive ways. Broader impacts include: contributing to STEM teacher education reform; preparing highly qualified, equity-oriented, STEM teachers; and diversifying the STEM teaching force. To widen the impact, materials created and knowledge gained will be disseminated through presentations at regional and national meetings and in publications in STEM education journals. This Track 1: Scholars and Stipends project is supported through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce). 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.