Deep Teaching Residency: A Faculty Development Program for Design and Implementation of Inclusive Undergraduate STEM Teaching Practices

该项目旨在为优秀的本科STEM教育服务于国家利益。它将通过聘请本科生STEM教师在其STEM课堂上培养包容性气候来做到这一点。具体地说，该项目旨在解决对STEM教学采取更注重关系的方法的必要性。这种方法可以提高学生的学习成绩和归属感，特别是对于历史上被剥夺公民权的学生。为了支持这些变化，该项目将聘请两批24名本科生STEM讲师进行为期一年的实习。这些STEM讲师将从全国各地和不同的机构类型中挑选出来。实习将基于主要调查员开发的深度教学概念模型。深度教学强调自我意识、移情和反思性教学。驻校模式还将应用这样一种理念，即只有在支持性社区的背景下才能制定包容性课程是困难的、持续的和成功的。实习将从准备阅读和反思开始，然后是夏季为期五天的身临其境的研讨会。在研讨会上，STEM讲师将探讨自我意识在包容性实践中的作用，设计要在下一学年完成的针对具体情况的项目，并设计在此期间支持项目实施的结构。在每个讲习班之后的学年，该项目将继续通过一个虚拟的深度教学指导网络向教员群体提供社区支持和问责。最终，该项目旨在创建一个学者社区，他们深入参与持续的、有目的的工作，将STEM课程转变为更具包容性的教学实践。该项目的具体目标是：1)建立一个致力于开发和评估其包容性教学实践的学者-教育者社区；2)有意义地改变教师参与者的心态，朝着以公平为基础的教学方向发展；3)协助教师参与者扩展与包容性教学实践有关的知识和必要技能；以及4)支持参与者在自己的课堂上设计、实施和评估包容性教学项目，并将他们的研究结果传播给更广泛的学术受众。该项目的研究方面将纳入一种认知框架方法，以调查教师的思维方式是如何从多样性、赤字到公平思维的教学。这项研究将采取定性分析的方法，使用从反思期刊和课程人工制品收集的数据。NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生的STEM教育的有效性。通过机构和社区转型轨道，该计划支持高等教育机构和学科社区转变和改进STEM教育的努力。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 aims to serve the national interest in excellent undergraduate STEM education. It will do so by engaging undergraduate STEM instructors in cultivating inclusive climates in their STEM classrooms. Specifically, the project intends to address the need for a more relationship-oriented approach to STEM teaching. Such an approach can increase students' academic performance and sense of belonging, particularly for students from historically disenfranchised backgrounds. To support these changes, the project will engage two cohorts of 24 undergraduate STEM instructors in a year-long residency. These STEM instructors will be selected from across the nation and from different institutional types. The residency will be based on the Deep Teaching conceptual model developed by the primary investigator. Deep Teaching emphasizes self-awareness, empathy, and reflective teaching. The residency model also will apply the philosophy that developing inclusive curricula is difficult, ongoing, and successful only when done in the context of a supportive community. The residency will begin with preparatory reading and reflection, followed by an immersive five-day workshop during the summer. At the workshop, the STEM instructors will explore the role of self-awareness in inclusive practices, design context-specific projects to complete in the following academic year, and design a structure to support implementation of the projects during that time. In the academic year following each workshop, the project will continue to provide the instructor cohort with community support and accountability via a virtual Deep Teaching mentoring network. Ultimately, the project seeks to create a community of scholars who engage deeply in ongoing, intentional work to transform STEM courses toward more inclusive teaching practices.The specific aims of the project are to: 1) Build a community of scholar-educators committed to developing and evaluating their inclusive teaching practices; 2) Meaningfully transform faculty participant mindsets in the direction of equity-based pedagogies; 3) Assist faculty participants in expanding knowledge and requisite skills pertaining to inclusive teaching practices; and 4) Support participants in the design, implementation, and assessment of an inclusive pedagogy project in their own classrooms and the dissemination of their findings to a broader academic audience. The research aspect of the project will incorporate a cognitive frames approach to investigate the ways in which faculty mindsets migrate from diversity, to deficit, to equity-minded pedagogies. This research will take a qualitative analysis approach using data gathered from reflective journals and course artifacts. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Institutional and Community Transformation track, the program supports efforts to transform and improve STEM education across institutions of higher education and disciplinary communities.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.