Summer STEM Teaching Experiences for Undergraduates from Liberal Arts Institutions

文科院校本科生暑期 STEM 教学体验

• 批准号: 1525691
• 负责人: Charles Steinhorn
• 金额: $ 213.77万
• 依托单位: Vassar College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-15 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1525691&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Summer; STEM; Teaching; Experiences; Undergraduates

There is a well-documented national need for K-12 teachers with substantial content knowledge in the several STEM disciplines. In this regard, undergraduate STEM majors from liberal arts institutions are an under-tapped pool of potential STEM teachers. The Summer STEM Teaching Experiences for Undergraduates (TEU) program will provide undergraduate STEM majors from liberal arts colleges and universities with an immersive summer experience in secondary mathematics or science education. The TEU program will encourage these students to explore careers in K-12 STEM education via a high quality discipline specific pedagogy course integrated with a teaching practicum with a focus on urban education. Owing to the small size of many liberal arts institutions, a key challenge they face is how to provide their undergraduate STEM students with high quality courses and experiences that are focused on mathematics or science pedagogy. The TEU program is designed to fill this need. The mathematics TEU model has been piloted during the summers of 2013-2015 at Brown University as part of the Brown Summer High School program. Through this TEU project, the mathematics pilot will be joined by the science TEU. The project, led by faculty from Barnard College, Brown University, Bryn Mawr College, Trinity College and Vassar College will contribute to the intent of the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education-EHR effort in adding to the understanding associated with engaging STEM majors from liberal arts institutions in the K-12 enterprise. Over five summers, a total of 120 undergraduates (24 per year) will be recruited from a national network of sixty-one liberal arts institutions to take part in the 6-7 week TEU program. Each summer twelve undergraduate students will participate in the mathematics TEU program to be held at Brown University and twelve will participate in the science TEU program to be held at Trinity College. The teaching practicum, designed and taught by the TEU participants working under the supervision of master teacher mentors, will provide a summer enrichment course to approximately 1250 local high-need urban secondary students drawn from the Providence area and from the Hartford Middle Magnet Trinity College Academy. The TEU provides participants with the option to receive credit for the 60 hour pedagogy course. TEU participants will undertake a STEM leadership project at their home institution during the following academic year. TEU project investigators will engage in design and development research to explore the extent to which the TEU model, consisting of an immersive summer experience and teacher leadership project, affects the participants' preparation for teaching. Specific beneficial learner outcomes to be examined include: preservice teacher pedagogical knowledge, efficacy, effectiveness, and leadership. The research will employ a multiple-case study approach and a mixed-effects model to analyze the cumulative data. The data will include pre- and post-tests of participant knowledge of core course content, observational data, surveys and self-assessments collected from all participants, as well as semi-structured interviews and collection of artifacts of teaching from a smaller subset of TEU participants. What will be learned through the TEU model, and attendant educational research, will provide evidence for wide adoption and will contribute to the broader impacts of this project.

国家对拥有多个 STEM 学科丰富内容知识的 K-12 教师的需求有据可查。在这方面，文科院校的 STEM 专业本科生是一个尚未开发的潜在 STEM 教师队伍。本科生暑期 STEM 教学体验 (TEU) 计划将为文理学院和大学的 STEM 专业本科生提供中学数学或科学教育的沉浸式暑期体验。 TEU 计划将鼓励这些学生通过高质量的学科特定教育学课程与以城市教育为重点的教学实践相结合，探索 K-12 STEM 教育的职业生涯。由于许多文科院校规模较小，他们面临的一个关键挑战是如何为本科生提供专注于数学或科学教学法的高质量课程和经验。 TEU 计划旨在满足这一需求。作为布朗暑期高中项目的一部分，数学 TEU 模型已于 2013 年至 2015 年夏季在布朗大学进行了试点。通过这个 TEU 项目，数学试点将与科学 TEU 一起加入。该项目由巴纳德学院、布朗大学、布林莫尔学院、三一学院和瓦萨学院的教师领导，将有助于改善本科生 STEM 教育-EHR 工作的目的，增加对文科机构 STEM 专业参与的理解。在 K-12 企业中。在五个夏天的时间里，将从全国 61 所文科院校网络中招募总共 120 名本科生（每年 24 名）参加为期 6 至 7 周的 TEU 项目。每年夏天，12 名本科生将参加在布朗大学举办的数学 TEU 课程，12 名本科生将参加在三一学院举办的科学 TEU 课程。教学实习由 TEU 参与者在名师导师的监督下设计和教授，将为来自普罗维登斯地区和哈特福德中磁三一学院的约 1250 名当地高需求城市中学生提供暑期强化课程。 TEU 为参与者提供获得 60 小时教育学课程学分的选择。 TEU 参与者将在下一学年在其所在机构开展 STEM 领导力项目。 TEU 项目研究人员将从事设计和开发研究，以探索由沉浸式暑期体验和教师领导项目组成的 TEU 模式在多大程度上影响参与者的教学准备。要检查的具体有益学习者成果包括：职前教师的教学知识、效能、有效性和领导力。该研究将采用多案例研究方法和混合效应模型来分析累积数据。数据将包括对核心课程内容的参与者知识、观察数据、从所有参与者收集的调查和自我评估的预测试和后测试，以及半结构化访谈和从 TEU 的较小子集收集的教学工件参与者。 通过 TEU 模型以及随之而来的教育研究将学到的知识将为广泛采用提供证据，并将有助于该项目产生更广泛的影响。