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: 2243462
• 负责人: Vanessa Dodo Seriki
• 金额: $ 10.33万
• 依托单位: Morgan 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=2243462&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.

该项目旨在服务于培养高效的科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)教师领袖的国家需求，他们能够在中学和中学STEM教育中创造可持续的改进。这个为期五年的项目建立了一个专业学习社区，拥有15名主要教师研究员(MTF)，他们是马里兰州一个大型城市学区的经验丰富和模范的STEM教师领袖，致力于响应文化的教学。学习社区的目标是支持MTF通过以下方式转变其教学：(1)整合以公平和正义为中心的STEM教学；(2)利用Makerspace为社区导向的STEM学习引入新的机会。汤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的非营利性创业者空间Open Works的合作。该项目旨在提高马里兰州STEM教学的能力，使一批经验丰富和模范的STEM教师成为专家制造者、响应文化需求的课堂实践者和教师领导者。该项目结构旨在提供一条脚手架路径，使MTF能够增强他们对以正义为中心的STEM教学方法和新兴技术的知识，这些技术在他们作为教师和教师领导者的发展过程中经常出现在Makerspace中。通过一系列计划中的领导力机会，MTF计划旨在让MTF通过设计、实施和反思多次专业学习经验的迭代来分享他们的知识，并向他们所在地区和马里兰州的潜在和实践教师提供实用知识。该项目还将制作一个资料库，其中包括Maker增强的社会正义STEM课程、教师的专业学习经验、全国性和全州范围的演示、参考的期刊文章和其他传播产品。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。