Cultivating University-School-Community Partnerships to Prepare STEM Undergraduates to Teach in Urban Environments

培养大学-学校-社区合作伙伴关系，为 STEM 本科生在城市环境中教学做好准备

• 批准号: 2050461
• 负责人: Katherine Chen
• 金额: $ 113.95万
• 依托单位: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-04-01 至 2026-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2050461&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Cultivating; University; Community; Partnerships; Prepare

This project aims to address the national urban teacher shortage by preparing and supporting STEM undergraduates to effectively teach in culturally diverse, urban, high-need schools. The project will recruit 18 undergraduates majoring in biology, chemistry, physics, mathematical science, actuarial mathematics, computer science, or engineering. These students will receive scholarships during the third and fourth year of their undergraduate STEM degree while participating in the teacher preparation program. The teacher preparation program will include training in culturally responsive pedagogy, combined with teaching experiences in community-based settings. These experiences are expected to enable the new teachers to apply their content and pedagogical knowledge within the context of the local community. To support this goal, the new teachers will be supported in their first two years of teaching through an induction program. This project at Worcester Polytechnic Institute includes partnerships with community-based organizations, such as the Worcester EcoTarium Museum and Worcester Parks & Recreation Department, and two local high-need schools (Worcester Public Schools and Leominster Public Schools). The goal of the project is to recruit, prepare, and support STEM undergraduates from a range of diverse backgrounds to successfully teach in urban, high-need schools with diverse student populations. Program objectives designed to meet this goal are to: 1) improve recruitment strategies to grow and diversify teacher candidate cohorts; 2) engage STEM teacher candidates with early teaching experiences; 3) build STEM teacher candidates' cultural competency in a local community with rich cultural diversity; and 4) provide professional development and networking opportunities to facilitate induction support for the project's new teachers in the first and second years of teaching. Evaluation of the efficacy of these trainings and community-based teaching experiences will be gathered through teacher candidate and mentor teacher interviews and surveys. The multiple touch points in the community will be investigated to determine how their frequency and dosage affect teacher candidate attitudes and preparation to teach in high-need school districts, as evidenced by the construction of an e-portfolio of teaching activities and a reflection journal to document and enable analysis of their teaching paths. This project may provide insight into the strategies and best practices for leveraging university-school-community partnerships in recruiting, training, and retaining STEM educators for urban districts while highlighting practices to increase teacher effectiveness with students from diverse populations. This Track 1: Scholarships and Stipend project is supported through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce). The Noyce program supports talented STEM undergraduate majors and professionals to become effective K-12 STEM teachers and experienced, exemplary K-12 teachers to become STEM master teachers in high-need school districts. It also supports research on the persistence, retention, and effectiveness of K-12 STEM teachers in high-need school districts.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.

该项目旨在通过准备和支持STEM大学生在文化多样的，城市，高需求的学校中有效任教，以解决国家城市教师短缺。该项目将招募18名在生物学，化学，物理，数学科学，精算数学，计算机科学或工程学的本科生。 这些学生将在参加教师准备课程的同时，在本科STEM学位的第三年和第四年获得奖学金。教师准备计划将包括对文化反应式教学法进行培训，并结合社区环境中的教学经验。 这些经验有望使新教师能够在当地社区的背景下应用其内容和教学知识。为了支持这一目标，新教师将在他们的入职计划的头两年中得到支持。 伍斯特理工学院的该项目包括与社区组织的合作伙伴关系，例如伍斯特生态博物馆和伍斯特公园和娱乐部，以及两所当地高需求的学校（伍斯特公立学校和莱明斯特公立学校）。该项目的目的是从一系列不同的背景中招募，准备和支持STEM的本科生，以成功地在城市高需求的学校中任教。 旨在实现此目标的计划目标是：1）改善招聘策略，以增长和多样化教师候选人同类； 2）让STEM教师候选人与早期的教学经验； 3）在具有丰富文化多样性的当地社区中建立STEM教师候选人的文化能力； 4）提供专业发展和网络机会，以促进在教学的第一年和第二年对项目的新教师的归纳支持。评估这些培训和基于社区的教学经验的功效，将通过教师候选人和导师教师的访谈和调查来收集。将调查社区中的多个接触点，以确定其频率和剂量如何影响教师候选人的态度和在高需求学区的教学方面的准备，这证明了构建教学活动的电子遗产和反思期刊以记录并启用其教学路径的分析。 该项目可能会洞悉利用大学学校社区伙伴关系的策略和最佳实践，以招募，培训和保留STEM教育者的城市地区，同时着重强调实践，以提高与来自不同人群的学生的教师效率。 这首歌1：奖学金和津贴项目得到了罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划（NOYCE）的支持。 NOYCE计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人士成为有效的K-12 STEM老师，并经验丰富的K-12老师，成为高需求学区的STEM大师教师。它还支持有关K-12 STEM教师在高需求学区的持久性，保留和有效性的研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，认为值得通过评估来支持。