Catalyzing Transformative Change in STEM Education through an Institute for Inclusive Pedagogy

该项目旨在通过实施制度变革来扩大STEM领域的参与，从而为国家利益服务。马萨诸塞湾社区学院（massachusetts bay Community College）每年举办三次为期五周的STEM暑期学院，旨在对教师教授黑人、土著和/或有色人种（BIPOC）学生的方式做出重大、持久和积极的改变。该项目将培训总共30名STEM教职员工，其中包括来自该机构集水区两所地区高中的15名高中教师。参与者将学习如何更好地为BIPOC STEM学生服务。在学年期间，MassBay的教师将通过修订后的课堂实践得到指导。该项目将有助于解决MassBay留住和毕业的BIPOC STEM学生水平低于同行的问题。该项目将寻求通过MassBay和地区高中的专业发展来影响教师，从而随着时间的推移，为增加STEM管道和劳动力中学生的多样性做出贡献。该项目的目标将是：(1)对STEM教师进行有关BIPOC需求的教育；(2)将STEM教师与资源联系起来，将文化包容性教学法纳入他们的课程；(3)指导这些教员；(4)通过专业的外部评估来监督教师的进步。所采用的方法将是强调文化响应教学法的专业发展，这种教学法要求教师了解如何结合基于学生生活经历和背景的多种教学方法。该项目将重点关注对BIPOC学生教学态度的系统性制度变化，这将在部门和机构层面以及STEM教育工作者和/或教育研究人员社区进行衡量。因此，随着时间的推移，MassBay将招募、支持和毕业更多的BIPOC学生。NSF IUSE: EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过机构和社区转型轨道，该计划支持高等教育机构和学科社区的STEM教育转型和改善。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。

This project aims to serve the national interest by implementing an institutional change to broaden participation in STEM fields. A series of three annual five-week STEM Summer Institutes at MassBay Community College will aim to make significant, lasting, and positive changes in the way faculty teach students who identify as Black, Indigenous and/or people of color (BIPOC). The project will train a total of thirty STEM faculty and staff and include fifteen high school faculty from two regional high schools in the institution’s catchment area as well. Participants will learn how to better serve BIPOC STEM students. MassBay faculty will be mentored through implementation of revised classroom practices during the academic year. This project will help to address the problem that MassBay is retaining and graduating BIPOC STEM students at lower levels compared to their counterparts. The project will seek to impact faculty through professional development at MassBay and at regional high schools, thereby contributing, over time, to an increase in the diversity of students in the STEM pipeline and workforce.The goals of the project will be to (1) educate STEM faculty regarding BIPOC needs; (2) connect STEM faculty to resources to incorporate culturally inclusive pedagogy into their courses; (3) mentor those faculty; and (4) monitor faculty progress via professional, external evaluation. The method to be employed will be professional development that will emphasize culturally responsive pedagogy—pedagogy that requires faculty to understand how to incorporate multiple methods of instruction that are based on students’ life experiences and backgrounds. The project will focus on systemic institutional change in attitudes toward teaching BIPOC students that will be measured at the departmental and institutional levels, and across communities of STEM educators and/or educational researchers. As a result, over time, MassBay will recruit, support, and graduate more BIPOC students. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Institutional and Community Transformation track, the program supports efforts to transform and improve STEM education across institutions of higher education and disciplinary communities.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.