Building Capacity, Generating Knowledge, and Fostering Community to Define and Disseminate What Works in STEM Teacher Preparation for High-Need School Districts

该项目旨在满足国家对推进STEM教师培训项目中循证实践的研究和使用的需求，特别是培养能够在高需求学区支持学生成功的教师。该项目将建立并扩展高需求学区职前教师STEM教育推进研究与创新（ARISE）网络的努力。该网络将Noyce首席调查员、他们所培养的教师以及Noyce社区以外致力于推进和利用教师培养研究的利益相关者联系在一起。该项目将采用三管齐下的战略：能力建设、产生/管理知识和培育社区。能力建设活动将侧重于研究和评估，包括提案准备网络研讨会和讲习班、评估人员和教师能力建设讲习班，以获得更好的研究/评估数据、培养下一代研究人员，以及关于跨Noyce项目共享数据库的可行性研究。产生/策划知识活动将确定研究文献和实践中的差距，并制作出版物和相关的用户友好的研究议程。此外，关于最近研究的影响的博客，关于关键主题的委托论文，以及STEM教师招聘工作会议将进一步促进研究的产生。促进社区建立证据文化的项目活动将包括加强aaas-arise.org和维持nsfnoyce.org；ARISE社区内容网络研讨会系列，包括多个专家观点；2021年、2022年和2023年Noyce峰会，每场最多650人参加。美国科学促进会（AAAS）的这个项目回应了迫切需要参与集体工作，将教师培训转变为一种更循证的职业。因此，拟议的活动旨在以研究和传播工作为基础，有意地建立能力，产生知识，并促进社区为高需求学区的STEM教师准备工作。该项目将Noyce的主要研究人员联系起来，并建立一个更广泛的研究社区，以支持教师、教育者、从业者和教育研究人员。在NRC委员会、NASEM教师队伍小组、NSF首席研究员、AAAS ARISE计划和相关工作的基础上，该项目旨在为寻求扩大STEM教师教育计划和专业发展研究基础的当前和未来研究人员提供资源、工具和社区。目前正在追求或可能受到启发的STEM教师教育和领导力发展项目的教师教育项目将受益于这些资源、工具和社区。该项目由罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划（诺伊斯）支持。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。

The project aims to serve the national need of advancing research about and use of evidence-based practices in STEM teacher preparation programs, particularly to prepare teachers who can support student success in high-need school districts. This project will build on and extend the efforts of the Advancing Research & Innovation in the STEM Education of Preservice Teachers in High-Need School Districts (ARISE) network. This network connects Noyce Principal Investigators, and the teachers they prepare, and stakeholders outside the Noyce community who are engaged in advancing and using teacher preparation research. The project will use a three-pronged strategy: building capacity, generating/curating knowledge, and fostering community. Building capacity activities will focus on research and evaluation, and will include proposal preparation webinars and workshops, evaluator and faculty capacity-building workshops for better research/evaluation data, cultivation of next generation researchers, and a feasibility study regarding a shared database across Noyce projects. Generating/curating knowledge activities will identify in gaps in research literature and practice, and produce publications and related user-friendly research agenda. In addition, blogging about implications of recent research, commissioned papers on critical topics, and a STEM teacher recruitment working meeting will further research generation. Project activities for fostering community towards a culture of evidence will include enhancement of aaas-arise.org and maintenance of nsfnoyce.org; ARISE Community Content Webinar Series featuring multiple expert perspectives; and 2021, 2022, and 2023 Noyce Summits for up to 650 attendees each.This project at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) responds to the pressing need to engage in collective work to transform teacher preparation into a more evidence-based profession. Thus, the proposed activities are designed to build on research and dissemination efforts to intentionally build capacity, generate knowledge, and foster community towards what works in STEM teacher preparation for high-need school districts. This project will connect the Noyce Principal Investigators to, and build a wider research community in support of, teacher educators, practitioners, and education researchers. Building on the work of the NRC committees, NASEM Teacher Workforce panel, NSF Principal Investigators, AAAS ARISE Initiatives, and related efforts, this project seeks to provide resources, tools, and community for current and prospective researchers who seek to expand the research base on STEM teacher education programs and professional development. Teacher education programs that are currently pursuing or may be inspired to pursue evidence-based changes in STEM teacher education and leadership development programs will benefit from these resources, tools, and community. This 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.