Making STEM Matter: Transforming Learning through Teacher Leadership, Justice-Centered Pedagogy, and Makerspace Technology

让 STEM 变得重要：通过教师领导力、以正义为中心的教学法和创客空间技术改变学习

• 批准号: 2243461
• 负责人: Sandy Spitzer
• 金额: $ 139.66万
• 依托单位: Towson 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=2243461&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Making; STEM; Matter; Transforming; Learning

This project aims to serve the national need of developing highly effective teacher leaders of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) who can create sustainable improvements in middle grades and secondary STEM education. The five-year project establishes a professional learning community with 15 Master Teacher Fellows (MTFs) who are experienced and exemplary STEM teacher leaders in a large urban school district in Maryland, and committed to culturally responsive teaching. The goal of the learning community is to support MTFs’ in transforming their instruction by: (1) integrating equity- and justice-centered STEM pedagogies and (2) leveraging makerspaces to introduce new opportunities for community-oriented STEM learning. This collaborative project at Towson University and Morgan State University includes partnerships with Prince George’s County Public School System and Open Works, a nonprofit makerspace in Baltimore. The project aims to increase capacity for STEM teaching in Maryland by empowering a cohort of experienced and exemplary STEM teachers to become expert makers, culturally responsive classroom practitioners, and teacher leaders. The project structure is designed to provide a scaffolded pathway that allows MTFs to enhance their knowledge of justice-centered STEM pedagogy and emerging technologies commonly found in makerspaces as they evolve as both teachers and teacher leaders. Through a series of planned leadership opportunities, the MTF program aims to allow MTFs' to share their knowledge by designing, implementing, and reflecting on multiple iterations of professional learning experiences, as well as offering practical knowledge to prospective and practicing teachers both within their district and across the state of Maryland. This project will also produce a repository of maker-enhanced social justice STEM lessons, professional learning experiences for teachers, national and statewide presentations, refereed journal articles, and other dissemination products. 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.

该项目旨在满足国家对培养高效的科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 教师领导者的需求，他们能够可持续地改进中年级和中等 STEM 教育。这个为期五年的项目建立了一个由 15 名大师级教师 (MTF) 组成的专业学习社区，他们是马里兰州一个大城市学区经验丰富的模范 STEM 教师领导者，致力于文化响应式教学。学习社区的目标是通过以下方式支持 MTF 转变教学方式：(1) 整合以公平和正义为中心的 STEM 教学法；(2) 利用创客空间为面向社区的 STEM 学习引入新机会。 陶森大学和摩根州立大学的这个合作项目包括与乔治王子县公立学校系统和巴尔的摩非营利创客空间 Open Works 的合作。该项目旨在通过让一批经验丰富、模范的 STEM 教师成为专家制造者、文化敏感的课堂实践者和教师领导者，提高马里兰州的 STEM 教学能力。该项目结构旨在提供一个脚手架途径，使 MTF 在作为教师和教师领导者不断发展的过程中，增强他们对以正义为中心的 STEM 教学法和创客空间中常见的新兴技术的了解。通过一系列计划中的领导机会，MTF 计划旨在让 MTF 通过设计、实施和反思专业学习经验的多次迭代来分享他们的知识，并为所在地区和马里兰州的未来和在职教师提供实践知识。该项目还将制作一个存储库，其中包含创客增强的社会正义 STEM 课程、教师的专业学习经验、全国和全州范围内的演示、经过审阅的期刊文章和其他传播产品。此轨道 3：硕士教学奖学金项目由罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划 (Noyce) 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高效的 K-12 STEM 教师，并支持经验丰富、堪称典范的 K-12 教师成为高需求学区的 STEM 大师级教师。它还支持对高需求学区 K-12 STEM 教师的有效性和保留率的研究。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。