Northeast Noyce Professional Learning Network

该项目旨在服务于国家需要，支持高需求学区高效K-12 STEM教师的成长和发展。高效的STEM教师激励和吸引学生，为他们提供参与STEM工作所需的技能和知识，并最终帮助他们充分发挥潜力。建设STEM教师的能力尤其重要，以培养高需求学校学生经常未被开发的才华，因为许多学生来自历史上被边缘化的人口。为了满足这一需求，该项目将在美国东北部建立一个地区性专业学习网络。该网络将增加早期职业STEM教师与来自该地区的STEM同事，包括经验丰富的硕士教师的联系和合作的机会。该网络将通过专业学习活动补充个别大学和学区的STEM教师发展努力，以进一步促进在高需求地区留住早期职业STEM教师并取得成功。该项目是罗切斯特大学(NY)、马萨诸塞大学波士顿分校(MA)和圣约瑟夫大学(PA)三所高等教育机构之间的合作伙伴关系，此前罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金项目取得了成功。项目目标包括：a)连接、利用和进一步发展掌握教师的知识和专长，使早期STEM教师受益；b)为600多名准教师和实习生提供高质量的专业学习体验，其中包括两次地区性STEM教学会议、22个专业学习社区、22个视频俱乐部、352小时的早期STEM教师培训和9个地方专业学习机构；以及c)连接80多所提供STEM教学课程的东北高等教育机构，共同创建东北诺伊斯专业学习网络。除其他外，该网络将为STEM教师教育领导者提供机会，分享支持STEM教师教育项目持续改进的知识和理解。该项目将促进对教师如何通过强大的计划评估计划访问网络以进行协作、连接和共享的理解。随着教师了解和实施STEM教育中的循证做法，该项目将知识转化为解决方案，从而使社会受益。本次会议项目得到罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划(NOYCE)的支持，该计划旨在支持有才华的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。

The project aims to serve the national need of supporting the growth and development of highly effective K-12 STEM teachers in high-need school districts. Effective STEM teachers inspire and engage students, provide them with the skills and knowledge needed to participate in the STEM workforce, and ultimately help them achieve their full potential. It is particularly critical to build the capacity of STEM teachers to foster the frequently untapped talent of students in high-need schools, where many students from historically marginalized populations attend. To address this need, the project will establish a regional professional learning network in the Northeast United States. The network will increase opportunities for early career STEM teachers to connect and collaborate with STEM colleagues from across the region, including experienced master teachers. The network will complement STEM teacher development efforts at individual universities and school districts with professional learning activities to further promote the retention and success of early career STEM teachers in high-need districts. This project is a partnership between three institutions of higher education with previously successful Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship projects: the University of Rochester (NY), the University of Massachusetts at Boston (MA), and Saint Joseph’s University (PA). Project goals include: a) connecting, leveraging, and further developing the knowledge and expertise of master teachers to benefit early-career STEM teachers; b) providing high-quality professional learning experiences for over 600 prospective and practicing teachers that includes two regional STEM teaching conferences, 22 professional learning communities, 22 video clubs, 352 hours of coaching for early career STEM teachers, and nine local professional learning institutes; and c) connecting over 80 Northeast institutions of higher education offering STEM teaching programs to collectively create the Northeast Noyce Professional Learning Network. Among other things, this network will provide opportunities for STEM teacher education leaders to share knowledge and understandings that support continuous improvement of STEM teacher education programs. The project will advance understandings of how teachers access networks to collaborate, connect, and share through a robust program evaluation plan. The project benefits society by translating knowledge into solutions as teachers learn about and implement evidence-based practices in STEM education. This conference project is supported through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce), which aims to support 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.