NRT IGE: Pedagogical Readiness Oversight for Future Educators in STEM Subjects (PROFESS)

对于许多科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）专业的研究生来说，教师职业是可取的，但很少有STEM毕业生能获得与学术或其他职业成果相关的正式职业发展机会。然而，研究表明，从事教学与研究相结合可以促进研究生的发展。与研究相关的技能，不增加毕业时间。这项授予德雷塞尔大学的研究生教育创新（IGE）国家科学基金会研究培训（NRT）奖是一个试点，旨在解决开发机制的需求，培养STEM研究生有效地教授本科生。该项目将开发和测试一种新的研究生教育模式，使学生能够在研究生生涯中接受教育方法的培训，并获得STEM教育的额外高级学位。该项目将通过四个目标来支持STEM研究生作为教育工作者的专业发展：(1)以证据为基础的教学方法培养研究生，(2)为STEM研究生提供一种机制，使他们在选择技术博士学位的基础上获得本科STEM教育硕士学位，(3)保持学生对教授职业的兴趣，以及(4)支持教师发展。该项目将利用国家UTeach项目模式，该模式目前正在德雷塞尔大学（Drexel University）通过DragonsTeach项目在本科阶段复制。包括顶点实习、指导活动和新学位课程在内的新课程将作为STEM教育和内容教师之间的跨大学合作开发，并将强调深度内容知识和基于研究的教学法的重要性。为了评估这一试点，将收集有关学生成果和看法、教师看法以及作为研究生项目一部分的教学培训的价值和成本的数据，以确定该模式是否可持续并可转移到其他机构。NSF研究培训（NRT）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的、新的、具有潜在变革性和可扩展的STEM研究生教育培训模式。研究生教育创新轨道专门用于试点，测试和评估新颖，创新和潜在的变革性研究生教育方法。

NRT-IGE: Pedagogical Readiness Oversight for Future Educators in STEM Subjects (PROFESS)Faculty careers are desirable to many graduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), yet few STEM graduate trainees are provided with formal opportunities for career development related to academic or other career outcomes. However, it has been demonstrated that engaging in teaching in conjunction with research can promote graduate students? skills relevant to research, without increasing the time to graduation. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award in Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) to Drexel University is a pilot to address the need to develop mechanisms to train STEM graduate students to effectively teach undergraduate students. This project will develop and test a new model of graduate education that will enable students to train in educational methods as part of their graduate career and earn an additional advanced degree in STEM education. The project will support the professional development of STEM graduate students as educators through four targeted goals to (1) train graduate students in evidence-based pedagogical approaches, (2) provide a mechanism for STEM graduate students to earn an MS in Undergraduate STEM Education in addition to their chosen technical PhD, (3) maintain student interest in diverse careers in the professoriate, and (4) support faculty development. The program will leverage the national UTeach program model, currently being replicated at the undergraduate level at Drexel University through the DragonsTeach program. The new courses, including a capstone internship, mentoring activities, and the new degree program will be developed as a cross-university collaboration among STEM education and content faculty and will emphasize the importance of deep content knowledge and research-based pedagogy. To evaluate this pilot, data will be collected on student outcomes and perceptions, faculty perceptions, as well as the value and costs of the pedagogical training as part of a graduate program to determine whether this model is sustainable and transferrable to other institutions.The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, potentially transformative, and scalable models for STEM graduate education training. The Innovations in Graduate Education Track is dedicated solely to piloting, testing, and evaluating novel, innovative, and potentially transformative approaches to graduate education.