Culturally Responsive and Effective STEM Teaching: Strengthening the Foundation for Teacher Success in High-Need School Districts

文化响应和有效的 STEM 教学：加强高需求学区教师成功的基础

• 批准号: 1660706
• 负责人: Julia Bryce
• 金额: $ 143.45万
• 依托单位: University of New Hampshire
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-06-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1660706&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Culturally; Responsive; Effective; STEM; Teaching

The Culturally Responsive and Effective STEM Teaching (CREST): Strengthening the Foundation for Teacher Success in High-Need School Districts project is a collaborative effort between the University of New Hampshire (UNH), the Community College System of New Hampshire (CCSNH), and local school districts. Many school districts in both urban and rural areas of the State of New Hampshire struggle to find well-qualified STEM teachers who persist in their high-need schools, resulting in a critical shortage of STEM teachers across the state. This Track 1 Noyce project will address this need by attracting and preparing STEM undergraduate majors and STEM professional career changers to teach science and mathematics at the secondary level in high-need districts in a culturally responsive way. The project will target both undergraduate STEM majors and STEM professional career changers, and will produce a minimum of 31 highly-qualified STEM secondary school teachers. Project activities will use culturally responsive pedagogy to confront cultural and resource challenges that exist in high-need school districts; to develop an understanding and appreciation of their students' cultural background; and to develop more sophisticated competencies in addressing the needs of their socially, academically, and linguistically diverse students. As this project builds upon prior work, it will expand its strong preparation of scholars proficient in both content and pedagogy, and produce educators who can make STEM disciplines accessible and exciting to all groups of students in a context-driven way. Additionally, the CREST program will expand on existing collaborations with community colleges in the region to establish a new pathway and recruit STEM majors from two-year programs to UNH for three additional years culminating in a M.Ed. or M.A.T, thus preparing them for future careers in teaching and increasing the diversity of teachers. The CREST program will be directed by a multidisciplinary team of UNH faculty members from mathematics, physics, chemistry, biological sciences, earth sciences, and education in collaboration with faculty members from regional community colleges, school district partners, practicing teachers, and educational advisors. The program will supplement the well-recognized and rigorous UNH teacher preparation program with early STEM teaching activities, mentoring, and professional development focusing on culturally responsive teaching. Guided by this teaching model, the CREST scholars will consider their teaching through five lenses: content integration, facilitating knowledge construction, prejudice reduction, social justice, and academic development. Using a range of qualitative and quantitative tools (e.g., surveys, interviews, and teaching portfolios) the project team and the external evaluator will examine the role of culturally responsive teaching on preparing the CREST Noyce scholars. Hence, the project will contribute to this knowledge base, and will broadly disseminate the results through publications and conference presentations.

文化响应和有效的 STEM 教学 (CREST)：加强高需求学区教师成功的基础项目是新罕布什尔大学 (UNH)、新罕布什尔州社区学院系统 (CCSNH) 和当地学区。 新罕布什尔州城市和农村地区的许多学区都在努力寻找合格的 STEM 教师来坚持在高需求的学校工作，导致全州 STEM 教师严重短缺。 Track 1 Noyce 项目将通过吸引和准备 STEM 本科专业和 STEM 职业转行者，以文化响应方式在高需求地区的中学教授科学和数学，从而满足这一需求。该项目将针对 STEM 专业本科生和 STEM 职业转行者，并将培养至少 31 名高素质 STEM 中学教师。项目活动将使用文化响应式教学法来应对高需求学区存在的文化和资源挑战；了解和欣赏学生的文化背景；培养更复杂的能力来满足社会、学术和语言多样化的学生的需求。由于该项目建立在先前工作的基础上，它将扩大对精通内容和教学法的学者的强大准备，并培养能够以情境驱动的方式让所有学生群体都能接触到 STEM 学科并感到兴奋的教育工作者。此外，CREST 项目将扩大与该地区社区大学的现有合作，建立一条新的途径，并从两年制项目中招募 STEM 专业的学生到新罕布什尔大学再学习三年，最终获得教育硕士学位。或 M.A.T，从而为他们未来的教学职业做好准备，并增加教师的多样性。 CREST 项目将由来自数学、物理、化学、生物科学、地球科学和教育领域的 UNH 教职人员组成的多学科团队指导，并与地区社区学院的教职人员、学区合作伙伴、执业教师和教育顾问合作。该计划将通过早期 STEM 教学活动、指导和专注于文化响应式教学的专业发展来补充广受认可且严格的 UNH 教师培训计划。在这种教学模式的指导下，CREST学者将从五个角度考虑他们的教学：内容整合、促进知识建构、减少偏见、社会正义和学术发展。项目团队和外部评估员将使用一系列定性和定量工具（例如调查、访谈和教学档案）来研究文化响应式教学在培养 CREST Noyce 学者方面的作用。因此，该项目将为这一知识库做出贡献，并将通过出版物和会议演示广泛传播结果。