Preparing, Supporting, and Diversifying STEM Teachers for High-Needs Schools in California’s Central Valley by Promoting Social and Environmental Justice Pedagogies

通过促进社会和环境正义教育学，为加州中央谷的高需求学校培养、支持 STEM 教师并使之多样化

• 批准号: 2243457
• 负责人: Bjorg Johannsdottir
• 金额: $ 119.13万
• 依托单位: California State University-Stanislaus
• 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: 2023-04-01 至 2028-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2243457&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Preparing; Supporting; Diversifying; STEM; Teachers

This project aims to serve the national need for preparing and retaining high-quality STEM teachers who are prepared to teach in high-need school districts. Research indicates that when teachers and students have similar demographics, students' test scores, attendance, and suspension rates are positively affected. Marginalized social groups consistently bear differential impacts, and all fields of science and mathematics are called upon for commitments to improve STEM knowledge and to create solutions for equitable advancement of K-12 students with STEM literacies. To foster these improvements, a focus of the project will be to provide teacher preparation for undergraduate STEM majors or STEM degree holders to become educators with strong content knowledge and pedagogical expertise that target social and environmental justice initiatives. Teacher preparation and induction will emphasize empowerment, transformative leadership, equitable and inclusive educational practices, and research-informed instruction through planned curricular and induction-period activities, as well as participation in a professional learning community. This will enable high-need schools in California's Central Valley and other areas nationwide to provide their students a strong and inclusive science and mathematics education. This, in turn, will help prepare many of these same students for the STEM workforce.This project at California State University-Stanislaus (CSU-Stanislaus), an Hispanic serving institution (HSI), includes partnerships with Turlock Unified School District (USD), Stockton USD, and Modesto City Schools. The project will be guided by several goals. First, over five years, the project will recruit and prepare a diverse set of twenty-five (25) high-quality students, who are undergraduate majors or who have a degree, in biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, geoscience, mathematics, or physics, to become K-12 STEM teachers in high-needs schools. A special focus will be on recruiting students of color and other minorities who are traditionally underrepresented in the STEM arena. The Scholars, who would be supported for up to three years if a current undergraduate student, and for one credentialing year if already holding a STEM degree, would represent an increase of twenty-five STEM teachers beyond current numbers. Second, project activities and CSU-Stanislaus curricula will provide these prospective STEM teachers with high-level STEM content knowledge and culturally sustaining pedagogies as well as leadership, socio-emotional learning, and active learning skills and expertise to prepare them for their future classrooms in high-needs schools. This process will also feature preparation with respect to national narratives, frameworks, and standards concerning teaching and student learning. A third goal is to decrease teacher burnout and attrition rates by creating an induction process that includes a professional learning community and networking opportunities aimed at connecting practicing STEM teachers with one another. A fourth goal is to create, implement, study, sustain, and disseminate a model that (1) involves research-based best practices to prepare and retain prospective STEM teachers, especially from traditionally marginalized groups, and (2) emphasizes pedagogies that attend to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Comprehensive mixed-methods project evaluation will provide formative and summative assessment and feedback. Through publications, conferences presentations, and workshops, investigators will proactively disseminate project findings and outcomes to other CSU campuses and nationwide. 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-needs 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需要，培养和留住准备在高需求学区任教的高素质STEM教师。研究表明，当教师和学生的人口统计数据相似时，学生的考试成绩、出勤率和停课率都会受到积极的影响。被边缘化的社会群体始终承受着不同的影响，所有科学和数学领域都被呼吁承诺提高STEM知识，并为公平提高具有STEM素养的K-12学生创造解决方案。为了促进这些改进，该项目的一个重点将是为STEM专业本科生或STEM学位持有者提供教师准备，使他们成为具有丰富的教学知识和教学专长的教育工作者，这些教育专业的目标是社会和环境正义倡议。教师培训和上岗将强调赋权、变革性领导、公平和包容的教育做法、通过计划的课程和上岗期间活动进行的研究指导，以及参与专业学习社区。这将使加州中央山谷和全国其他地区的高需求学校能够为学生提供强大和包容的科学和数学教育。这反过来将帮助这些学生中的许多人为STEM工作做准备。这个项目在加州州立大学斯坦尼斯劳斯分校(CSU-Stanislaus)进行，是一家西班牙裔服务机构(HSI)，包括与特洛克联合学区(U.S.)、斯托克顿联合学区和莫德斯托城市学校的合作伙伴关系。该项目将以几个目标为指导。首先，该项目将在五年内招聘和培养一批不同的高素质学生，他们是本科专业或拥有学位的生物、化学、计算机科学、工程、地球科学、数学或物理专业的学生，成为高需求学校的K-12 STEM教师。一个特别的重点将是招收有色人种和其他少数民族的学生，这些学生在STEM领域传统上代表不足。如果是在校本科生，他们将获得最长三年的资助；如果已经拥有STEM学位，将获得一年的资格认证，这意味着将在现有数量的基础上增加25名STEM教师。第二，项目活动和CSU-Stanislaus课程将为这些未来的STEM教师提供高水平的STEM教学知识和文化支持的教学法，以及领导力、社会情感学习和积极的学习技能和专业知识，为他们未来在高需求学校的课堂做好准备。这一进程还将针对有关教学和学生学习的国家叙述、框架和标准进行准备。第三个目标是通过创建一个包括专业学习社区和旨在将实习STEM教师与彼此联系起来的网络机会的入职过程来降低教师职业倦怠和流失率。第四个目标是创建、实施、研究、维持和传播这样一种模式：(1)采用以研究为基础的最佳做法，培养和留住未来的STEM教师，特别是来自传统上被边缘化群体的教师；(2)强调注重多样性、公平和包容性的教学方法。综合混合方法项目评价将提供形成性和终结性评估和反馈。通过出版物、会议演示和研讨会，研究人员将主动将项目结果和成果传播到其他CSU校园和全国范围内。这个Track 1：奖学金和津贴项目由罗伯特·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。