HSI Pilot Project: Including others in the teaching and practice of STEM disciplines

在改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划）的支持下，该轨道1项目旨在促进STEM学科教学的系统性变革，以缩小学习者，教育工作者和课堂上使用的教学材料之间的差距。这项工作的预期成果是通过反种族主义和包容性方法的培训来提高教师的专业知识，促进STEM课堂的多样性，让STEM学生参与教师创建的文化肯定和反种族主义材料和活动，并在开放资源库中共享新创建的资源，以支持整个大学的STEM教师，并提高他们在文化方面的教学技能肯定教学实践。该项目建议通过将这种方法应用于纽约市立大学约翰·杰伊刑事司法学院的七门STEM课程，促进STEM学科教学的机构转型，以更好地代表西班牙裔服务机构的学生群体。该项目的第一个目标是举办一个为期一年的STEM教员研讨会，教员将在研讨会上了解反种族主义和包容性的教育学，并讨论他们的作用，确定采取何种行动，使学生在课堂上的声音多样化。研讨会的成果包括与课程内容相一致的课堂材料和活动，这些材料和活动是从肯定文化和反种族主义的透镜的角度制定的。第二个目标是在第一年和第二年的STEM课程中实施这些材料和活动，以改变他们的认识论观点，反映课堂的多样性，并增强学生的权能。第三个目标是开展一项强有力的评估，评估这些活动对学生对STEM和科学身份的归属感的影响。第四个也是最后一个目标是开发一个开放的资源平台，该平台将容纳创建的资源和工具，使其他STEM教师可以访问它们。最终，这将促进广泛的课程改革，提高教师的参与度和公平的学生成绩。研究计划将包括一个混合方法的方法来分析学生的经验和成果后，参加这个计划。该项目旨在产生关于包容性教学实践的新知识，以增加学生与课堂材料的联系，并阐明新的战略，以影响学生坚持STEM专业，促进边缘化和历史上代表性不足的少数民族学生留在STEM。HSI计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，并建立HSI的能力。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。该奖项反映了NSF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。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1 project aims to promote systemic change in the teaching of STEM disciplines in order to close the gap between learners, educators, and the pedagogical material used in the classroom. The expected outcomes of this work are to increase faculty expertise through training in anti-racist and inclusive approaches that promote diversity in the STEM classroom, to have STEM students engaged with the faculty-created culturally affirming and anti-racist materials and activities, and to share the newly created resources in an open resource repository to support STEM faculty across the university and improve their pedagogical skills regarding culturally affirming teaching practices. This project proposes to promote institutional transformation in the teaching of STEM disciplines that better represents the student populations at Hispanic Serving Institutions by applying this approach to seven STEM courses at CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The first objective of the project is to conduct an incentivized 1-year STEM faculty seminar in which faculty will learn about anti-racist and inclusive pedagogies, as well as discuss their role and determine actions to undertake to diversify the students’ voices in the classroom. The seminar outcomes include classroom materials and activities aligned with the course content and developed with a culturally affirming, anti-racist lens. The second objective is the implementation of these materials and activities in the first and second year STEM courses to effect change in their epistemological perspectives to reflect the diversity of the classrooms and to empower the students. The third objective is to carry out a robust evaluation that assesses the impact of these activities in relation to students’ sense of belonging to STEM and science identity. The fourth and final objective is to develop an open-resource platform that will house the created resources and tools to make them accessible to other STEM faculty members. Ultimately, this will promote widespread curricular change, enhance faculty engagement and equitable student outcomes. The research plan will include a mixed-method approach to analyze students’ experiences and outcomes after participating in this program. The project seeks to generate new knowledge about inclusive pedagogical practices to increase the connection of students with classroom materials, and shed light into new strategies to impact students’ persistence in STEM majors that promote the retention of marginalized and historically underrepresented minority students in STEM. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.