Building Capacity for Disciplinary Experts in Math and Science Teaching

该项目解决了美国日益增长的需求，即为具有STEM领域学位和强大的特定内容教学准备的新STEM初中和高中教师招聘、准备和提供有效的入职支持。特别是，该项目将为STEM专业人士和STEM专业学生创造一条在华盛顿特区教学的创新途径。这一人口代表了未来致力于在高需求学校教学的教师的未开发供应。完成后，该项目将验证一项战略，以利用这些STEM学科专家，并将为他们设计和试点一套全面的学习经验。该项目将以教育和STEM教师与数学和科学专家教师合作开发和试点新方法为特色，以支持教师候选人的发展。博物馆实习将贯穿整个项目，因为博物馆是城市景观中的地方，教师候选人可以参与真实的学习体验，并实践教学不同的学生群体。这项合作努力的长期目标是大大提高华盛顿地区为城市数学和科学教学准备“学科专家”的能力。有三个项目成果。首先，该项目将发现如何增加准备在华盛顿地区任教的STEM专业人士和本科STEM专业学生的数量。其次，该项目将使乔治华盛顿大学（GWU）教育和STEM教师、哥伦比亚特区公立和公立特许学校、史密森尼国家自然历史博物馆、卡内基科学教育学院和GWU公民参与中心之间的可持续合作关系制度化，以改善华盛顿特区的数学和科学教师教育渠道。第三，将制定一个强有力的学习计划，以重新设计的教师准备课程、综合创新的实地体验和早期职业指导为特色。对从选定的学生作业和课程及实地实习视频中收集的试点数据进行系统分析，将促进新课程的开发，强调教考生运用数学和科学知识的方法，不仅要判断学生的推理，而且要认识和利用学龄学生的良好思维（即良好的科学和数学思想）作为学习的基石。最后，该项目的设计是为了满足扩大教师培训范围的需求，超出传统的以大学为基础的教师教育项目的范围，因此也将产生一个专门的入门和早期职业支持策略，将候选人与导师联系起来，导师将在他们在华盛顿特区大都市地区的早期教学中跟随他们。

This project addresses the Nation's growing need to recruit, prepare, and provide effective induction support for new STEM middle and high school teachers with degrees in STEM fields and strong content-specific pedagogical preparation. In particular the project will create an innovative pathway to teaching in Washington, DC for STEM professionals and STEM majors. This population represents an untapped supply of future teachers committed to teaching in high needs schools. Upon completion, the project will have validated a strategy to tap into this pool of STEM disciplinary experts, and will design and pilot a comprehensive set of learning experiences tailored to them. The project work will feature education and STEM faculty working with expert mathematics and science teachers in developing and piloting new methods to support teacher candidate development. Museum internships will be established and infused throughout the program, because museums are places in the urban landscape where teacher candidates can participate in authentic learning experiences and practice teaching a diverse population of students.The long-term goal of this collaborative effort is to greatly enhance the DC area's ability to prepare "disciplinary experts" for urban mathematics and science teaching. There are three project outcomes. First, the project will discover how to increase the number of STEM professionals and undergraduate STEM majors preparing to teach in the DC area. Second, the project will institutionalize a sustainable nexus of collaboration among George Washington University's (GWU) education and STEM faculty, the District of Columbia Public and Public Charter Schools, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Academy for Science Education, and GWU's Center for Civic Engagement, to improve the mathematics and science teacher education pipeline in Washington, DC. Third, a robust program of study will be produced featuring redesigned teacher preparation coursework, integrated and innovative field experiences, and early career mentoring. A systematic analysis of pilot data collected from selected student work and video from courses and field placements will facilitate the development of new curriculum emphasizing methods that teach candidates to use their knowledge in mathematics and science, not just to judge student reasoning, but to recognize and use school age students' good thinking (i.e. good scientific and mathematical ideas) as building blocks for learning. Finally, the project is designed to respond to the need to extend the scope of teacher training beyond what is traditionally done within the boundary of a university-based teacher education program, and therefore will also produce a specialized induction and early career support strategy that will link candidates with mentors who will follow them in their early years of teaching in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.