Culturally Responsive Education of STEM Teacher Candidates

STEM 教师候选人的文化响应式教育

• 批准号: 2243328
• 负责人: Laura Lorentzen
• 金额: $ 119.01万
• 依托单位: Kean University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-01 至 2028-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2243328&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Culturally; Responsive; Education; STEM; Teacher

This project aims to serve the national need to increase the number of STEM majors entering the STEM teacher-preparation pipeline to fulfill growing shortages in high-need secondary schools. The project will provide two-year scholarships and academic and co-curricular support to twenty-eight (28) talented undergraduate STEM students who are majoring in biology, chemistry, earth sciences, or mathematics and intend to become secondary STEM teachers. An important direction of the project will be to provide teacher preparation and induction that emphasize effective STEM discipline content knowledge along with culturally responsive and place based pedagogical practices to engage diverse student populations in successful learning experiences in STEM. An underlying feature of the project will be the development and implementation of myriad networking opportunities. Included will be the creation of a professional learning community (PLC) composed of university faculty, Noyce Scholars, and STEM teachers at the partnering Local Education Agencies (LEAs). Related to this learning community, other project components will include a seminar series, an annual STEM teaching conference, classroom observations, mentoring of Scholars by college faculty and in-service teachers, and establishment of an online hub for sharing resources and collaboration. The teacher preparation project initiatives coupled with induction and an emphasis on culturally responsive education will develop STEM teachers who will enable high-need schools in New Jersey and other areas across the United States to provide their students a strong and inclusive science and mathematics education. In turn, this will help provide a pathway for many of these same students to establish STEM careers.This project is housed at Kean University, a minority serving and Hispanic serving institution, and leverages partnerships with two high-need urban adjacent LEAs in New Jersey, namely the Township of Union School District and the Lakewood Township School District. The project will be guided by several goals. First, over five years, the project will recruit, provide scholarships, and prepare a diverse set of twenty-eight (28) high-quality students, who are undergraduate majors in biology, chemistry, earth sciences, or mathematics, to become STEM secondary teachers in high-need schools. A corollary of this goal is that 50% of the Scholars will be students who identify as members of racial and ethnic groups that are underrepresented in their participation in STEM disciplines. A second goal is to provide a variety of networking activities for the project's Scholars to enhance STEM teacher preparation, retention, and classroom effectiveness. An underlying thread through the activities will be an emphasis on culturally responsive pedagogies. For a third goal, the project will provide Noyce Scholars with strong STEM and pedagogical content knowledge through STEM discipline coursework and projects as well as the project's teacher preparation and induction components. Comprehensive mixed-methods project evaluation will provide formative and summative assessment and feedback and generate new knowledge with respect to best practices for professional learning communities and networking opportunities in general for STEM teacher preparation and induction. Project investigators will disseminate findings, successes, and challenges through social media, publications, conference and workshop presentations, summer outreach activities, exchanges with area K-12 educators, and the project's online Culturally Responsive Education for STEM Teachers Hub. 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 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.

该项目旨在满足国家的需求，增加进入STEM教师培训管道的STEM专业学生的数量，以满足高需求中学日益增长的短缺。该项目将为28名主修生物、化学、地球科学或数学并打算成为STEM中学教师的有才华的本科STEM学生提供为期两年的奖学金以及学术和课外支持。该项目的一个重要方向是为教师提供准备和培训，强调有效的STEM学科内容知识，以及文化响应和基于地方的教学实践，以吸引不同的学生群体参与STEM的成功学习经验。该项目的一个基本特征将是开发和实现无数的网络机会。其中包括创建一个专业学习社区（PLC），由大学教师、Noyce学者和合作的地方教育机构（LEAs）的STEM教师组成。与这个学习社区相关的其他项目组成部分将包括一系列研讨会、年度STEM教学会议、课堂观察、大学教师和在职教师对学者的指导，以及建立一个共享资源和协作的在线中心。教师培训项目倡议加上对文化响应教育的归纳和强调，将培养STEM教师，使新泽西州和美国其他地区的高需求学校能够为学生提供强大而包容的科学和数学教育。反过来，这将有助于为这些学生中的许多人提供建立STEM职业的途径。该项目位于肯恩大学，这是一个少数族裔和西班牙裔服务机构，并利用与新泽西州两个高需求城市邻近LEAs的合作伙伴关系，即联合学区乡镇和莱克伍德乡镇学区。该项目将以几个目标为指导。首先，在五年的时间里，该项目将招募、提供奖学金，并培养28名生物、化学、地球科学或数学本科专业的高素质学生，使他们成为高需求学校的STEM中学教师。这一目标的必然结果是，50%的学者将是那些在STEM学科中代表性不足的种族和族裔群体的学生。第二个目标是为该项目的学者提供各种网络活动，以提高STEM教师的准备、留任和课堂效率。贯穿这些活动的一条基本线索将是强调对文化作出反应的教学法。第三个目标是，该项目将通过STEM学科课程和项目，以及项目的教师准备和入职部分，为Noyce学者提供强大的STEM和教学内容知识。综合混合方法项目评估将提供形成性和总结性评估和反馈，为专业学习社区提供最佳实践方面的新知识，并为STEM教师的准备和入职提供交流机会。项目调查人员将通过社交媒体、出版物、会议和研讨会演讲、夏季外展活动、与地区K-12教育工作者的交流，以及项目的在线STEM教师文化响应教育中心，传播调查结果、成功案例和挑战。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教师的有效性和留任率的研究。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。