Building Rural STEM Educator Capacity through Partnership

通过合作伙伴关系建设农村 STEM 教育者能力

• 批准号: 1340033
• 负责人: Susan McKay
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of Maine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1340033&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Rural; STEM; Educator; Capacity

This project brings together STEM and STEM education faculty, teachers and administrators from rural districts, and others committed to improving STEM education to develop a partnership to build capacity in Maine to attract, prepare, and support STEM teachers and teacher leaders in high-need rural districts. This partnership fosters a networked improvement community to develop and disseminate exemplary STEM teaching methods courses, preparing both pre-service and in-service teachers to begin the transformation process called for in the Next Generation Science Standards and the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics. After conducting a needs assessment of high-need districts, the partnership is using this information to design recruitment strategies, innovative, collaborative field experiences and other professional development to support ongoing professional growth of STEM teachers and teacher leaders, with Master Teaching Fellows earning a Graduate Certificate. These teachers are positioned to have a significant, long term impact on their students and their communities. As information is collected and capacity is built, partnership members are obtaining cost share commitments and agreements for Fellow placements, develop a research and evaluation plan, providing the basis for an NSF Teaching Fellowships and Master Teaching Fellowships proposal. The partnership for this initiative includes researchers with expertise in STEM teaching and learning, veteran teachers, and curriculum directors, each of whom brings different knowledge to the community. The course and curriculum development is informed by discipline-based education research, including studies related to challenges of implementing the practices. Each element of professional development is assessed, with the results used to guide improvements. The project's networked improvement community is providing insights into the use of this strategy for ongoing educational improvement in rural areas. Courses developed through this project are disseminated broadly, so others benefit from the products of this community.

该项目汇集了STEM和STEM教育教师，农村地区的教师和管理人员，以及其他致力于改善STEM教育的人，以建立在缅因州建立能力的合作伙伴关系，以吸引，准备和支持高需求农村地区的STEM教师和教师领袖。该合作伙伴关系培养了一个网络改进社区，以发展和传播典范的STEM教学方法课程，为服务前和在职教师做准备，开始在下一代科学标准和数学中的共同核心国家标准中开始的转型过程。在进行了对高需求地区的需求评估之后，该合作伙伴关系正在使用此信息来设计招聘策略，创新，协作实地经验和其他专业发展，以支持STEM教师和教师领导者的持续专业成长，而高级教学人员则获得研究生证书。这些老师有能力对他们的学生和社区产生重大的长期影响。随着信息收集并建立能力，合作伙伴成员正在为其他安置，制定研究和评估计划，为NSF教学奖学金和大师教学奖学金提案提供基础。该计划的合作伙伴关系包括具有STEM教学专业知识的研究人员，资深教师和课程导演，每个人都为社区带来了不同的知识。基于学科的教育研究为课程和课程发展提供了信息，包括与实施实施实践的挑战有关的研究。评估了专业发展的每个要素，其结果用于指导改进。该项目的网络改进社区正在提供有关该策略在农村地区持续教育改善的见解。通过该项目开发的课程被广泛传播，因此其他社区的产品受益。