Creating Communities of Practice to Support NOYCE Scholars in Becoming More Adaptable Mathematics Teachers

创建实践社区以支持 NOYCE 学者成为适应性更强的数学教师

• 批准号: 2243398
• 负责人: Sherri Martinie
• 金额: $ 119.91万
• 依托单位: Kansas State 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: 2023-07-01 至 2028-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2243398&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; Communities; Practice; Support; NOYCE

The project aims to serve the national need of preparing high-quality mathematics teachers to become adaptable educators capable of thinking and acting effectively in new or changing situations and to adjust their teaching as needed. The project will provide opportunities for freshmen and sophomores to work in informal math education settings both on and off campus. The project endeavors to increase the number of undergraduate mathematics majors receiving licensure and provide Scholars with an integrated enrichment program to identify skills and knowledge enabling them to be more flexible in their classroom. The project’s emphasis on recruiting and supporting students from populations underrepresented in STEM fields to become mathematics teachers, as well as addressing teacher adaptability in various contexts, is important when building a mathematics teaching profession.This project at Kansas State University (KSU) includes partnerships with the Center for Intercultural and Multilingual Advocacy, the Rural Education Center, and the Professional Development School Network (PDSN). The PDSN is a network of K-12 districts and schools who host teacher candidates from KSU in rigorous, carefully sequenced field experiences and collaborate as the University conducts and disseminates research examining critical questions facing educators today. These partnerships provide direct interaction with districts that represent urban, suburban, and rural school contexts. Over the next 5 years, the project will produce 18 new STEM Teachers and will form a community of practice that will create relationship-centered experiences to support preservice teacher preparation as well as strengthen relationships with high-need schools and math teachers. This project has a specific focus on developing adaptability among the Noyce Scholars that are supported and will investigate three research questions: what knowledge, skills, understanding, tools and/or resources enable the preservice teachers to recognize adaptability and to be more adaptable; to what extent does adaptability change over the course of a school year; and to what extent can adaptability be increased? 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要，培养高素质的数学教师，使他们成为适应性强的教育工作者，能够在新的或不断变化的情况下有效地思考和行动，并根据需要调整他们的教学。 该项目将为大一和大二学生提供机会，在校内和校外的非正式数学教育环境中工作。该项目致力于增加获得执照的本科数学专业的数量，并为学者提供综合的丰富课程，以确定技能和知识，使他们能够在课堂上更加灵活。该项目强调从STEM领域代表性不足的人群中招募和支持学生成为数学教师，以及解决教师在各种情况下的适应性，这在建立数学教师职业时非常重要。堪萨斯州立大学（KSU）的这个项目包括与跨文化和多语言倡导中心、农村教育中心、专业发展学校网络（PDSN）。 PDSN是K-12地区和学校的网络，他们在严格，仔细排序的实地经验中接待来自KSU的教师候选人，并在大学进行和传播研究时合作，研究当今教育工作者面临的关键问题。 这些伙伴关系提供了与代表城市，郊区和农村学校环境的地区的直接互动。在接下来的5年里，该项目将培养18名新的STEM教师，并将形成一个实践社区，创造以关系为中心的经验，以支持副教授的准备，并加强与高需求学校和数学教师的关系。该项目有一个具体的重点发展适应性之间的诺伊斯学者的支持，并将调查三个研究问题：什么知识，技能，理解，工具和/或资源，使在职教师认识到适应性和更适应性;在多大程度上适应性改变了一个学年的过程中;在多大程度上可以提高适应性？这个轨道1：奖学金和津贴项目是通过罗伯特诺伊斯教师奖学金计划（诺伊斯）的支持。诺伊斯计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人士成为有效的K-12 STEM教师和经验丰富的模范K-12教师，成为高需求学区的STEM硕士教师。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。