The Utah STEM Master Educator Institute

犹他州 STEM 硕士教育学院

• 批准号: 2050408
• 负责人: Colby Tofel-Grehl
• 金额: $ 7.49万
• 依托单位: Utah State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-03-01 至 2023-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2050408&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Utah; STEM; Master; Educator; Institute

This capacity building project will serve the national need for a well-prepared population of K-12 STEM teachers who can serve as leaders and role models within their schools. In particular, the project will develop new partnerships to support high quality training and professional learning for master STEM teachers serving high-need school districts in Utah. Working across the state, the project will bring together local education agencies, multiple colleges and universities, and local STEM industry partners to create a STEM teacher training institute. The resulting STEM Master Educators Institute will support educators as they help to prepare students to work in Utah’s STEM industries. Specifically, the Institute is intended to increase leadership capacity within the Utah education community, promote innovative solutions to problems of practice in STEM education, and create a sustainable model for collaboration within and across schools. To complete the project, the project leadership team will work with an experienced advisory board and representatives from multiple partners to design the Institute. The Institute will incorporate a “think tank” design to address key challenges in STEM education. The solutions developed by the Institute will reflect the collective knowledge of experienced K-12 and college-level educators, subject matter experts, and partners in the educational technology sector. This project at Utah State University includes partnerships with Utah’s STEM Action Center, and several Utah institutions of higher education (Southern Utah University, Utah Valley University and University of Utah). Additionally, the Utah State Board of Education will support the planning process with the project leadership team to build durable relationships with local education partners that will complement and strengthen the Board's STEM efforts. It is anticipated that master teachers and other Institute stakeholders will address challenges in distance learning, culturally aligned STEM content, integration of STEM across the disciplines, project-based learning, and K-12 science and math instruction. Project goals include the development of a novel, industry-based STEM teacher professional learning institute model. The project’s research plan uses the lens of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory to explore interactions between statewide educational systems to better understand the relationships between stakeholders and teacher education programs. This Capacity Building 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.

该能力建设项目将满足国家对 K-12 STEM 教师做好充分准备的需求，这些教师可以在学校中充当领导者和榜样。 特别是，该项目将建立新的合作伙伴关系，为犹他州高需求学区的 STEM 大师级教师提供高质量的培训和专业学习支持。 该项目在全州范围内开展，将汇集当地教育机构、多所学院和大学以及当地 STEM 行业合作伙伴，创建一所 STEM 教师培训机构。 由此产生的 STEM 教育大师学院将为教育工作者提供支持，帮助他们为学生在犹他州的 STEM 行业工作做好准备。具体来说，该研究所旨在提高犹他州教育界的领导能力，促进 STEM 教育实践问题的创新解决方案，并创建学校内部和跨学校合作的可持续模式。 为了完成该项目，项目领导团队将与经验丰富的顾问委员会和多个合作伙伴的代表合作设计该研究所。 该研究所将采用“智囊团”设计来解决 STEM 教育的关键挑战。该研究所开发的解决方案将反映经验丰富的 K-12 和大学教育工作者、主题专家以及教育技术领域合作伙伴的集体知识。犹他州立大学的这个项目包括与犹他州 STEM 行动中心和犹他州几所高等教育机构（南犹他大学、犹他谷大学和犹他大学）的合作伙伴关系。 此外，犹他州教育委员会将与项目领导团队一起支持规划流程，与当地教育合作伙伴建立持久的关系，从而补充和加强委员会的 STEM 工作。预计名师和其他学院利益相关者将解决远程学习、文化上一致的 STEM 内容、跨学科 STEM 整合、基于项目的学习以及 K-12 科学和数学教学等方面的挑战。 项目目标包括开发一种新颖的、基于行业的 STEM 教师专业学习机构模式。该项目的研究计划利用文化历史活动理论的视角来探索全州教育系统之间的相互作用，以更好地理解利益相关者与教师教育项目之间的关系。该能力建设项目得到罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划（Noyce）的支持。诺伊斯计划支持有才华的 STEM 本科专业和专业人士成为高效的 K-12 STEM 教师，并支持经验丰富、堪称典范的 K-12 教师成为高需求学区的 STEM 大师级教师。它还支持对高需求学区 K-12 STEM 教师的坚持、保留和有效性的研究。 该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。