Entrepreneurial Leadership in STEM Teaching & learning (EnLiST)

STEM 教学中的创业领导力

• 批准号: 0831820
• 负责人: Mats Selen
• 金额: $ 500万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-01-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0831820&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Entrepreneurial; Leadership; STEM; Teaching; &amp

The Entrepreneurial Leadership in STEM Teaching & learning (EnLiST) Partnership is comprised of Thornton High School District #205, South Holland, IL, Champaign Unit 4 School District, Champaign, IL, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which serves as the lead among these core partners. In addition, the following are supporting partners: The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA), IMSA-affiliated school districts, and Thornton elementary and middle school feeder districts. EnLiST intends to develop and build the infrastructural elements necessary to sustain a state-wide Illinois community of highly qualified science Teacher Leaders, who will effectively contribute to the transformation of science teaching and learning throughout the K-12 educational continuum in their districts. EnLiST will achieve these goals through a combination of intensive summer institutes and year-round professional development and collaborative activities. The synergy and continuity of these efforts will be ensured through establishment of an on-line community capitalizing on robust technological tools and infrastructure. EnLiST will commence with the development of core cadres of high school chemistry and physics Teacher Leaders organized into district teams. Next, the partnership will support and scaffold the activities of these core cadres as they engage in developing a cadre of middle school and elementary specialist science Teacher Leaders in their school districts. The activities of this latter participant group will focus on an interdisciplinary approach to science teaching and learning in elementary and middle school. Data collection and use will be a central theme in the development of Teacher Leaders and project operation as a whole. The innovation of EnLiST is its intent to reconceptualize the very notion of a "Teacher Leader" by drawing on scholarship in the field of social and entrepreneurial leadership and theories of distributed leadership. EnLiST aims to create a new generation of Teacher Leaders who, armed with cutting edge content knowledge, a strong pedagogical repertoire, and entrepreneurial spirit, can support their colleagues and transform their schools into responsive and data driven institutions of teaching and learning. EnLiST will provide participant science Teacher Leaders with understandings, skills, attitudes, and habits of mind enabling them to perceive themselves, and to act, as agents of change. The entrepreneurial leadership skills that will be developed will arm these Teacher Leaders to meet the many challenges faced by teachers in the current US K-12 educational milieu, including dealing with resource constraints, uncertainty, and multiple goals often related to internally desired and externally imposed demands for change and innovation. They will be equipped to meet the challenges and tensions that have often impeded the adoption of innovative curricula and pedagogies and transformation of K-12 science instructional practices in service of addressing increasingly diverse student population needs. The major research questions of the project will center on understanding and assessing the development of the target Teacher Leaders and the success of those leaders in transforming their own teaching. The ultimate aim is to develop a scalable national model for the preparation of social and entrepreneurial science Teacher Leaders who act as strong champions and effective initiators and implementors of change in pre-college science teaching and learning. The EnLiST research questions are: (a) What is the impact, if any, of the project's activities on participant Teacher Leaders' conceptions, attitudes, skills, and behaviors related to social and entrepreneurial leadership? (b) What is the nature of the perceived organizational culture in partner school districts in relation to barriers to, and encouragement of, innovation and change? What are the associated roles of Teacher Leaders and school administrators? (c) What is the differential impact, if any, of enhanced social and entrepreneurial leadership among Teacher Leaders on effecting innovation and change in science teaching and learning in partner school districts?

STEM教学与学习的企业家领导（Entrist）合作伙伴关系由Thornton High School District＃205，South Holland，IL，IL，Champaign Unit 4学区，Champaign，IL，IL和Urbana-Champaign大学，伊利诺伊州Unifyis of Urbana-Champaign，该学区是这些核心党派的主角。 此外，以下是支持合作伙伴：伊利诺伊州数学和科学学院（IMSA），IMSA附属学区以及桑顿小学和中学喂养区。 入伍打算开发和建立所需的基础设施因素，以维持一个由州范围的伊利诺伊州社区组成的高素质科学老师领导者，他们将有效地为整个K-12教育连续体的科学教学和学习的转变做出贡献。 Enrist将通过密集的夏季研究所以及全年的专业发展和协作活动的结合来实现这些目标。这些努力的协同和连续性将通过建立在强大的技术工具和基础设施上的在线社区来确保。 Enrist将从组织成地区团队的高中化学和物理教师领导者的核心干部开始。接下来，该伙伴关系将在开发学区的中学和小学专业教师领导者的干部，并在他们的学区开发这些核心干部的活动。后一个参与者小组的活动将集中在小学和中学的科学教学跨学科方法上。数据收集和使用将是教师领导者发展和整个项目操作的中心主题。入伍的创新是其目的是通过利用社会和企业家领导和分布式领导力理论的奖学金来重新概念化“教师领导者”的概念。 Enrist的目标是创建新一代的教师领导者，他们拥有尖端内容知识，强大的教学曲目和企业家精神，可以支持他们的同事，并将他们的学校转变为响应式和数据驱动的教学和学习机构。 Enrist将为参与者的科学老师领导者提供理解，技能，态度和思想习惯，使他们能够理解自己并作为变革的代理人。 将要开发的企业家领导能力将武装这些教师领导者，以应对当前美国K-12教育环境中教师面临的许多挑战，包括处理资源限制，不确定性以及与内部期望和外部强加的变化和创新有关的多个目标。他们将有能力应对经常阻碍采用创新课程和教学法的挑战和紧张局势，以及K-12科学教学实践的转变，以满足日益多样化的学生人数需求。该项目的主要研究问题将集中在理解和评估目标教师领导者的发展以及那些领导者在改变自己的教学方面的成功。 最终的目的是开发一个可扩展的国家模型，以准备社会和企业家科学老师的领导者，他们是大学前科学教学和学习的有效倡导者和变革的实施者。 入伍的研究问题是：（a）该项目对与社会和企业家领导相关的参与者领导者的概念，态度，技能和行为的影响（如果有的话）有什么影响？ （b）与创新和变革的障碍和鼓励，在合作学区中感知到的组织文化的性质是什么？教师领袖和学校管理员的相关角色是什么？ （c）在伴侣学区的科学教学和学习方面，教师领导者对社会和企业家领导者之间的增强的差异影响（如果有的话）是什么？