Focusing on Professional Engagement to Increase the Number of Highly Effective Science and Mathematics Teachers

注重专业投入，增加高效科学和数学教师的数量

• 批准号: 2050635
• 负责人: Mark Wathen
• 金额: $ 120万
• 依托单位: Utah Valley 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: 2021-05-01 至 2026-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2050635&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Focusing; Professional; Engagement; Increase; Number

This project aims to serve the national interest by increasing the number of highly qualified and effective STEM teachers in the United States, particularly in a high-growth, high-need region of central Utah. To do so, it will recruit high-achieving juniors or seniors pursuing baccalaureate STEM degrees in Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, or Earth Science. These students will receive scholarships and be supported to become STEM teachers through mentoring, content enrichment, professional development, and applied classroom experience. The project will support these future teachers to develop deep STEM content knowledge, as well as skills in critical thinking, inquiry learning techniques, and classroom management. Students in the classrooms of these well-prepared new teachers are expected to have a greater understanding of STEM concepts, be better prepared for success in college, and more likely to pursue STEM careers. In this way, the project expects to help meet 21st century workforce needs. Moreover, through the emphasis on professional engagement, the teachers prepared through this project may have increased potential to become leaders in their schools and districts, and in state and national education.In this project, Utah Valley University will partner with Snow College, a two-year college, as well as the high-needs school districts of Alpine, Provo, Nebo, and South Sanpete. An underlying project goal is to increase the number of secondary STEM teachers in high-need local educational agencies in Utah by: (1) awarding scholarships to 50 science and mathematics majors and providing them with a strong pre-service teacher training and in-service teacher support program focused on professional engagement; 2) strengthening recruitment of future teachers from Snow College; and (3) conducting longitudinal assessment and research about effective ways to recruit, train, and retain a high-quality teacher workforce. Project evaluation will include a longitudinal mixed methods study to investigate the impact of project activities on teacher retention and eventual leadership. The project team plans to disseminate project results, including information about the value of teacher identity and community across a network of schools, districts, and colleges for increasing teacher development and retention. 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.

该项目旨在通过增加美国高素质和有效的STEM教师的数量，尤其是在犹他州中部的高增长，高需求的地区来服务国家利益。为此，它将招募高成就的大三学生或攻读数学，生物学，化学，物理学或地球科学学士学位的老年人。 这些学生将获得奖学金，并得到支持，通过指导，内容丰富，专业发展和应用课堂经验成为STEM老师。该项目将支持这些未来的教师发展深厚的STEM内容知识，以及批判性思维，探究技术和课堂管理方面的技能。 这些准备好的新老师的教室中的学生有望对STEM概念有更多的了解，为大学成功做好准备，并且更有可能从事STEM职业。 通过这种方式，该项目希望帮助满足21世纪的劳动力需求。此外，通过强调专业参与，通过该项目准备的教师可能会增加成为学校和地区领导者的潜力，以及在州和国家教育中。一个基本的项目目标是增加犹他州高需求的当地教育机构中的二级STEM教师的数量：（1）授予50名科学和数学专业的奖学金，并为他们提供强大的服务前教师培训和服务的教师支持计划，专注于专业参与； 2）加强雪学院的未来教师的招聘； （3）进行纵向评估和研究，以了解有效的招募，培训和保留高质量教师劳动力的方法。项目评估将包括一项纵向混合方法研究，以研究项目活动对教师保留和最终领导的影响。该项目团队计划传播项目结果，包括有关教师身份和社区在学校，地区和学院网络中的价值的信息，以增加教师的发展和保留。 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老师，成为高需求学区的STEM大师教师。它还支持有关K-12 STEM教师在高需求学区的持久性，保留和有效性的研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，认为值得通过评估来支持。