Building Capacity for STEM Teachers with Cultural Responsiveness

在罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划的支持下，该能力建设项目旨在服务于高质量STEM教学的国家利益。它将通过建设能力，帮助中学数学教师从事适应文化的教学实践来做到这一点。具体地说，该项目将修改佛罗里达大学圣彼得堡分校的STEM教师教育课程，以纳入适应文化的教学培训。在全国范围内，对6-12年级的数学和科学教师的需求很大。教师短缺问题因对文化敏感的教师的需求而加剧，文化敏感型教师是一种知识和技能，使人能够有效地与其他文化联系，从而更好地满足不同学习者的需求。通过进行拟议的课程修改，预计该项目将为支持教师发展奠定基础，这些教师对STEM内容有扎实的了解，并在有效的STEM教学技术方面具有良好的技能。该项目是佛罗里达大学圣彼得堡分校和皮内拉斯县学校的合作项目，皮内拉斯县学校是佛罗里达州第7大学区，也是美国第26大学区。皮内拉斯县近一半的学生来自代表人数较少的少数族裔群体，略高于一半的学生获得免费或折扣午餐。因此，在皮内拉斯县的学校中，迫切需要因地制宜的教学做法。人数不足的少数族裔学生和社会经济地位较低的学生在数学和科学方面的成绩也明显较差，这一事实进一步强调了这一需要。为了满足这一需求，该项目伙伴关系将促进文化回应教学计划的发展，并审查该计划是否培养出准备好在高需求学校任教的教师，以及将取得成功并坚持其教师职业生涯的教师。由于美国其他许多学区有不同的学生人口，该项目有可能改善许多其他教师培训计划。因此，该项目的一个目标是建立一种可在其他地方复制的结构，以确保其他STEM教育方案能够提供包括文化响应在内的有效教师培训。Noyce计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人员成为高需求学区的有效K-12 STEM教师，并支持经验丰富、模范的K-12 STEM教师成为STEM大师教师。它还支持对高需求学区K-12 STEM教师的持久性、保留率和有效性的研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

With support from the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, this Capacity Building project aims to serve the national interest in high-quality STEM teaching. It will do so by building the capacity to help secondary mathematics teachers engage in culturally responsive teaching practices. Specifically, this project will modify the STEM teacher education curriculum at the University of Florida St. Petersburg to include training in culturally responsive teaching. Nationally, there is a significant need for grades 6-12 mathematics and science teachers. This teacher shortage is compounded by the need for teachers who are culturally responsive, which is the knowledge and skills that enable one to relate effectively to other cultures and, thus, to better meet the needs of diverse learners. By making the proposed curriculum modifications, this project is expected to lay the foundation to support the development of teachers who have robust knowledge of STEM content and well-developed skills in effective STEM instructional techniques. This project is a partnership between the University of Florida St. Petersburg and Pinellas County Schools, the 7th largest school district in Florida and the 26th largest in the US. Nearly half of the Pinellas County students are from an underrepresented minority group and just over half receive free or reduced lunches. Consequently, the need for culturally responsive teaching practices in Pinellas County Schools is critical. This need is further underscored by the fact that underrepresented minority students and students of lower socio-economic status are also significantly less successful in mathematics and science. To address this need, the project partnership will facilitate the development of a culturally responsive teaching program and examine whether the program produces teachers who are well prepared to teach in high need schools, and who will be successful and persist in their teaching career. Because many other US school districts have diverse student populations, this project has the potential to improve many other teacher preparation programs. Thus, a goal of this project is to develop a structure that can be replicated elsewhere to ensure that other STEM education programs can provide effective teacher preparation that includes cultural responsiveness. The Noyce program supports talented STEM undergraduate majors and professionals to become effective K-12 STEM teachers in high-need school districts and experienced, exemplary K-12 STEM teachers to become STEM master teachers. It also supports research on the persistence, retention, and effectiveness 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.