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，特别是犹他州中部高增长、高需求地区高素质、高效的STEM教师的数量，为国家利益服务。为此，它将招收攻读数学、生物、化学、物理或地球科学等STEM专业学士学位的成绩优异的大三或大四学生。这些学生将获得奖学金，并通过指导、内容充实、专业发展和应用课堂体验，支持他们成为STEM教师。该项目将支持这些未来的教师发展深入的STEM内容知识，以及批判性思维、研究性学习技巧和课堂管理技能。在这些准备充分的新老师的课堂上，学生们有望对STEM概念有更深入的了解，为在大学取得成功做好更好的准备，并更有可能从事STEM职业。通过这种方式，该项目有望帮助满足21世纪的劳动力需求。此外，通过强调专业参与，通过该项目培养的教师可能会增加成为学校和地区以及州和国家教育领导者的潜力。在这个项目中，犹他谷大学将与雪学院（一所两年制学院）以及Alpine、Provo、Nebo和South Sanpete的高需求学区合作。一个潜在的项目目标是通过以下方式增加犹他州高需求当地教育机构的中学STEM教师数量：(1)向50名科学和数学专业的学生颁发奖学金，并为他们提供强有力的职前教师培训和在职教师支持计划，重点是专业参与；2)加强对雪学院未来教师的招聘；(3)对招聘、培训和留住高素质教师队伍的有效途径进行纵向评估和研究。项目评价将包括纵向混合方法研究，以调查项目活动对教师留任和最终领导的影响。项目团队计划在学校、地区和学院网络中传播项目成果，包括关于教师身份和社区价值的信息，以提高教师的发展和留任。本项目由Robert Noyce教师奖学金项目（Noyce）资助。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教师成为高需求学区的STEM大师教师。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。