Advancing Language Literacy with Relevant Investigations in Science Education Emergent Bilinguals

通过科学教育新兴双语者的相关调查来提高语言素养

• 批准号: 2150958
• 负责人: Sissy Wong
• 金额: $ 220.13万
• 依托单位: University of Houston
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2027-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2150958&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Advancing; Language; Literacy; Relevant; Investigations

The project aims to serve the national need to support practicing middle school teachers’ beliefs, knowledge, and practices to effectively teach science to emergent bilinguals (EBs) who are developing their home language while learning another new language. These students often experience science instruction curricula and methods that are not responsive to their interests, science and language learning needs which is evidenced by the fact that EBs have lower science achievement scores when compared to their non-EB counterparts. This disparity is a significant obstacle to developing a scientifically literate society and is critical because the learning gap in science obstructs the pipeline of linguistically and culturally diverse students that pursue STEM fields and STEM careers. This project at the University of Houston (UH) includes partnerships with the UH Colleges of Education and Natural Sciences and Mathematics, the UH STEM Center, and Aldine, Alief and Houston Independent School Districts. Nonprofit organizations, Achieving Student Success through Excellence in Teaching (ASSET), and the New Teacher Center, are also project partners. Project goals include preparing 21 experienced and exemplary middle level science teachers over the 5-year period to be teacher leaders for teaching EB students at high needs schools in the Houston area. These Noyce Master Teaching Fellows (MTFs) will earn a master’s degree focused on conceptual and pedagogical education for integrating disciplinary language literacy with contextualized science lessons. The project evaluation is designed to analyze both quantitative and qualitative data. It focuses on understanding how the specialized courses designed to provide culturally and socially relevant conceptual and pedagogical content for science and language literacy instruction for EBs, coupled with professional development, can lead to new insights and opportunities for addressing the challenges teachers and teacher educators encounter in their efforts to enhance EBs’ engagement and success in science. This is expected to empower the MTFs to become science instructional leaders in their districts with a focus on reducing instructional disparities, especially among EB students. Approximately 18,900 EBs being taught by MTFs in the partner school districts are expected to be impacted. This Track 3: Master Teaching Fellowships 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 effectiveness and retention 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.

该项目旨在服务于国家需要，支持实践中学教师的信念、知识和实践，以有效地向新兴双语者(EBS)教授科学，这些人在学习另一种新语言的同时发展自己的母语。这些学生的科学教学课程和方法往往不符合他们的兴趣、科学和语言学习需要，这从EBS的科学成绩得分低于非EB学生的事实可见一斑。这一差距是发展一个有科学素养的社会的重大障碍，也是至关重要的，因为科学方面的学习差距阻碍了语言和文化上不同的学生追求STEM领域和STEM职业的渠道。休斯顿大学(UH)的这个项目包括与休斯顿大学教育、自然科学和数学学院、休斯顿大学STEM中心以及奥尔丁、阿里夫和休斯顿独立学区的合作伙伴关系。非营利组织，通过卓越教学实现学生成功(ASSET)，以及新教师中心，也是项目合作伙伴。项目目标包括在5年内培养21名有经验和模范的中级科学教师，成为休斯顿地区高需求学校教授EB学生的教师领导。这些诺伊斯硕士教学研究员(MTF)将获得硕士学位，专注于将学科语言素养与具体背景的科学课程相结合的概念和教学教育。项目评估旨在分析定量和定性数据。它侧重于了解旨在为EBS的科学和语言扫盲教学提供与文化和社会相关的概念和教学内容的专门课程，以及专业发展如何能够带来新的见解和机会，以应对教师和教师教育工作者在努力加强EBS在科学方面的参与和成功所遇到的挑战。预计这将使MTF成为各自地区的科学教学领导者，重点是减少教学差距，特别是EB学生之间的教学差距。预计在伙伴学区由MTF教授的约18,900个教育背景课程将受到影响。这个Track 3：大师教学奖学金项目由罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划(Noyce)提供支持。Noyce计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人员成为有效的K-12 STEM教师，并支持经验丰富、模范的K-12教师成为高需求学区的STEM硕士教师。它还支持对高需求学区K-12 STEM教师的有效性和留住的研究。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。