The Utah STEM Master Educator Institute

该能力建设项目将满足国家对K-12 STEM教师的充分准备人口的需求，这些教师可以在学校内担任领导者和榜样。 特别是，该项目将发展新的合作伙伴关系，以支持高质量的培训和专业学习的硕士STEM教师服务于犹他州的高需求学区。 该项目将在全州范围内开展工作，汇集当地教育机构、多所学院和大学以及当地STEM行业合作伙伴，创建一个STEM教师培训机构。 由此产生的STEM硕士教育家研究所将支持教育工作者，因为他们帮助学生准备在犹他州的STEM行业工作。具体而言，该研究所旨在提高犹他州教育界的领导能力，促进STEM教育实践问题的创新解决方案，并为学校内部和学校之间的合作创造可持续的模式。 为了完成该项目，项目领导小组将与经验丰富的咨询委员会和来自多个合作伙伴的代表合作设计研究所。 该研究所将纳入一个“智囊团”设计，以应对STEM教育的关键挑战。该研究所开发的解决方案将反映经验丰富的K-12和大学教育工作者，主题专家和教育技术部门合作伙伴的集体知识。犹他州州立大学的这个项目包括与犹他州的STEM行动中心和几所犹他州高等教育机构（南犹他州大学、犹他州山谷大学和犹他州大学）的合作。 此外，犹他州教育委员会将与项目领导团队一起支持规划过程，与当地教育合作伙伴建立持久的关系，以补充和加强委员会的STEM工作。预计硕士教师和其他研究所利益相关者将解决远程学习，文化一致的STEM内容，跨学科STEM整合，基于项目的学习以及K-12科学和数学教学方面的挑战。 项目目标包括开发一种新颖的、基于行业的STEM教师专业学习机构模型。该项目的研究计划使用文化历史活动理论的透镜，探索全州教育系统之间的互动，以更好地了解利益相关者和教师教育计划之间的关系。这个能力建设项目是通过罗伯特诺伊斯教师奖学金计划（诺伊斯）的支持。诺伊斯计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人士成为有效的K-12 STEM教师和经验丰富的模范K-12教师，成为高需求学区的STEM硕士教师。 该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This capacity building project will serve the national need for a well-prepared population of K-12 STEM teachers who can serve as leaders and role models within their schools. In particular, the project will develop new partnerships to support high quality training and professional learning for master STEM teachers serving high-need school districts in Utah. Working across the state, the project will bring together local education agencies, multiple colleges and universities, and local STEM industry partners to create a STEM teacher training institute. The resulting STEM Master Educators Institute will support educators as they help to prepare students to work in Utah’s STEM industries. Specifically, the Institute is intended to increase leadership capacity within the Utah education community, promote innovative solutions to problems of practice in STEM education, and create a sustainable model for collaboration within and across schools. To complete the project, the project leadership team will work with an experienced advisory board and representatives from multiple partners to design the Institute. The Institute will incorporate a “think tank” design to address key challenges in STEM education. The solutions developed by the Institute will reflect the collective knowledge of experienced K-12 and college-level educators, subject matter experts, and partners in the educational technology sector. This project at Utah State University includes partnerships with Utah’s STEM Action Center, and several Utah institutions of higher education (Southern Utah University, Utah Valley University and University of Utah). Additionally, the Utah State Board of Education will support the planning process with the project leadership team to build durable relationships with local education partners that will complement and strengthen the Board's STEM efforts. It is anticipated that master teachers and other Institute stakeholders will address challenges in distance learning, culturally aligned STEM content, integration of STEM across the disciplines, project-based learning, and K-12 science and math instruction. Project goals include the development of a novel, industry-based STEM teacher professional learning institute model. The project’s research plan uses the lens of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory to explore interactions between statewide educational systems to better understand the relationships between stakeholders and teacher education programs. This Capacity Building 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 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.