Preparing Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Computer Science Secondary School Teachers with Skills in Culturally Responsive Teaching

培养生物学、化学、数学和计算机科学中学教师的文化响应式教学技能

• 批准号: 2050388
• 负责人: Bonnie Maur
• 金额: $ 144.93万
• 依托单位: Sacred Heart University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-04-01 至 2026-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2050388&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Preparing; Biology; Chemistry; Mathematics; Computer

This project aims to serve the national need for a greater number of highly qualified STEM teachers. To do so, it plans to increase the number of STEM undergraduates who decide to pursue teaching careers. These emerging teachers will develop skills in culturally responsive teaching and asset-based perspectives to increase their effectiveness as teachers in high-need school districts. The project centers on supporting a pathway for community college STEM students to transfer to a four-year institution, complete their STEM baccalaureate degrees, and enter a STEM teacher preparation program. This pathway is intended to increase the number and diversity of highly qualified secondary STEM teachers, including individuals from low-income, first-generation, and/or military service backgrounds. The project will provide service-learning and STEM-based community activities to encourage STEM majors to explore teaching as a career. These activities will also form the foundation of a learning community in which preservice and new in-service STEM teachers can share and receive support. This project at Sacred Heart University includes partnerships with Housatonic Community College and Ansonia, Bridgeport, and Stratford Public Schools. The project goal is to increase the number of highly qualified STEM teachers and their effectiveness in high need schools. Over the five-year project, 18 biology, chemistry, mathematics, and computer science majors will earn bachelor’s degrees followed by a fifth year in which they will earn teacher certification in Connecticut and the state-required Master of Arts in Teaching. Individual Noyce Scholars may receive up to three years of support and will be required to serve as a classroom teacher in a high-need school district for two years for each of the scholarship years received. The project aims to develop the Scholars’ professional identities as highly effective STEM educators, enhance programming in culturally responsive pedagogy, and emphasize the importance of viewing high-need school populations through a strength-based lens. A longitudinal study will investigate the impact of increased familiarity with high-need communities on students’ assumptions about teaching in low-income urban schools. It will also examine the impacts of an undergraduate seminar and extensive field experiences on students’ intercultural competence. The project team expects to disseminate evidence regarding the developed curriculum, the efficacy of preparing preservice teachers in cultural competency, the value of service-learning, and the success of mentorship for novice teachers. This Track 1: Scholarships 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 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.

该项目旨在满足国家对更多高素质的STEM教师的需求。为此，它计划增加决定从事教学职业的STEM大学生的数量。这些新兴教师将发展具有文化响应式教学和基于资产的观点的技能，以提高他们作为高需求学区教师的有效性。该项目旨在支持社区大学STEM学生转移到四年制机构，完成其STEM学士学位的途径，并进入STEM教师准备计划。该途径旨在增加高素质的二级教师的数量和多样性，包括来自低收入，第一代和/或兵役背景的个人。该项目将提供服务学习和基于STEM的社区活动，以鼓励STEM专业的专业探索教学作为职业。这些活动还将构成一个学习社区的基础，在该社区中，职前和新的STEM教师可以分享和获得支持。该项目在圣心大学包括与Housatonic Community College和Ansonia，Bridgeport和Stratford公立学校的合作伙伴关系。项目目标是增加高素质的STEM教师的数量及其在高需求学校中的有效性。在这个五年的项目中，18个生物学，化学，数学和计算机科学专业的专业将获得学士学位，然后将获得五年的学士学位，他们将在康涅狄格州获得教师认证，并获得州要求的教学硕士学位。个人的Noyce学者最多可能会得到三年的支持，并且需要在每年获得的奖学金年中担任高需求学区的课堂老师两年。该项目旨在发展学者的专业身份，成为高效的STEM教育者，增强文化响应式教学法的编程，并强调通过基于力量的镜头观察高需求的学校人群的重要性。一项纵向研究将调查对高需求社区对学生对低收入城市学校教学的假设的熟悉程度的影响。它还将研究本科半决赛和广泛的现场经验对学生跨文化能力的影响。项目团队希望分散有关已发达课程的证据，在文化能力上准备职前教师的有效性，服务学习的价值以及对新教师的心态成功。这首歌1：奖学金和津贴项目得到了罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划（NOYCE）的支持。 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老师，并经验丰富的K-12教师，成为高需求学区的STEM大师教师。它还支持有关高需求学区K-12 STEM教师的持久性，保留和有效性的研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估被认为是宝贵的支持。