I-Corps: Exploring Technology Innovation Opportunities for Early Childhood STEM Professional Development

I-Corps：探索幼儿 STEM 专业发展的技术创新机会

• 批准号: 1823335
• 负责人: Alissa Lange
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: East Tennessee State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-04-01 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1823335&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Exploring; Technology; Innovation; Opportunities

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is vast. Our product aims to improve early childhood STEM learning by supporting the preschool workforce. Children's development in math and science at the end of preschool predicts how well they will do in multiple subjects later in school. Our professional development tools will empower teachers to provide rich early STEM experiences so that all children, regardless of background, have the opportunity to be better students. These experiences also build habits of mind, inquiry, and interest in STEM, which can result in a stronger, larger, and more innovative STEM workforce. The business could develop a national footprint that employs educators and experts from across the country to provide professional development, online supports and resources, and innovative technology to educators, school districts, and other preschool education organizations. The reach and impact of the project could expand rapidly through emerging technologies. The business can fulfill a massive need in our society to improve early childhood education by providing quality professional development and support for those educating our youngest learners. This I-Corps project will explore the commercial potential of our preschool professional development model and resources, SciMath-DLL. A variety of methods for program delivery, including direct to consumer, partnerships with schools, and outright licensing to schools could be utilized. Our model includes workshops, model lesson plans, professional learning communities, and individual reflective coaching across a range of STEM content. SciMath-DLL resulted from two DRK-12 early childhood STEM education research grants in which we developed the model and evaluated the positive changes in teachers, coaches, and children. In the first development project, results showed strong positive impacts on educators' confidence and teaching and coaching practice, and perceived improvements in children's skills and learning. Emerging findings from the second experimental study, show significant gains by the SciMath-DLL educators in terms of increased knowledge about STEM subjects and how to teach them to diverse student populations, and improved attitudes and beliefs about the ability of children to learn and apply STEM concepts. These results suggest that the SciMath-DLL program improves the quality of teaching, improves the quality of the help and guidance for teachers, and ultimately improves early childhood STEM education for children.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.

这个I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是巨大的。 我们的产品旨在通过支持学龄前劳动力来改善幼儿茎学习。学龄前儿童结束时的儿童数学和科学发展预测，他们在学校后来在多个科目中的表现如何。我们的专业发展工具将使教师能够提供丰富的早期STEM体验，以便所有孩子，无论背景如何，都有机会成为更好的学生。这些经验还养成了对STEM的思想，询问和兴趣的习惯，这可能会导致更强大，更大，更具创新性的STEM劳动力。该业务可以开发一个国家足迹，该占地面积雇用来自全国各地的教育工作者和专家，向教育工作者，学区和其他学龄前教育组织提供专业发展，在线支持和资源以及创新技术。该项目的影响力和影响可以通过新兴技术迅速扩展。该企业可以通过为我们最年轻的学习者提供高质量的专业发展和支持来满足我们社会的巨大需求，以改善幼儿教育。这个I-Corps项目将探索我们的学龄前专业发展模型和资源Scimath-DLL的商业潜力。可以利用各种计划交付的方法，包括直接向消费​​者，与学校的合作伙伴关系以及向学校的直接许可。我们的模型包括研讨会，模型课程计划，专业学习社区以及跨各种STEM内容的个人反思教练。 Scimath-dll是由两个DRK-12幼儿STEM教育研究补助金引起的，我们开发了该模型，并评估了教师，教练和儿童的积极变化。在第一个开发项目中，结果对教育者的信心，教学和教练实践表现出了强烈的积极影响，并认为改善了儿童的技能和学习。第二项实验研究中的新兴发现表明，Scimath-DLL教育者在对STEM学科的知识以及如何向不同的学生人群中教导他们的知识以及改善了对儿童学习和应用STEM概念的能力的态度和信念方面的显着增长。这些结果表明，Scimath-DLL计划提高了教学质量，提高了教师的帮助和指导的质量，并最终改善了儿童的幼儿STEM教育。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准来通过评估来获得支持的。