Citizen Science Teachers: Noyce Residency Scholars Program for Western New York

公民科学教师：纽约西部诺伊斯驻地学者计划

• 批准号: 2050619
• 负责人: Amanda Winkelsas
• 金额: $ 119.95万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Buffalo
• 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: 2021-07-01 至 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2050619&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Citizen; Science; Teachers; Noyce; Residency

This project aims to serve the national need of increasing the number and retention of diverse and effective science teachers in high-need school districts in Western New York. With a citizen science focus, this project will explore innovative strategies for preparing science teachers through civic engagement, study of local environments, and transformational approaches sustained in partnership with schools and communities. This focus will be paired with a context-specific, community-based teacher residency approach, a model that research has demonstrated to produce teachers who reflect greater demographic diversity and have notably longer retention as teachers. Taken together, a citizen science focus and residency approach may yield project outcomes that shed light on recruiting, preparing, and retaining high-quality science teachers that reflect the demographic diversity of students in P-12 schools. This project at the University at Buffalo includes partnerships with Buffalo Public Schools and Niagara Falls City Schools. The project’s overall goal is to recruit, prepare, and retain 20 science teachers across five cohorts of science career changers and undergraduate biology, chemistry, physics, and earth science majors. It is expected that project will contribute to a deeper understanding of how a civic engagement approach to local environments, when paired with a community-based approach to field experiences, can yield high quality, culturally, and linguistically-diverse teachers who have a positive impact on science engagement and learning in P-12 schools. Using surveys, interviews, and data about participation, retention, and academic performance, this project will examine the effectiveness of the project's interventions in preparing and engaging science teachers, and in placing and retaining these teachers in high-need schools. Project outcomes will be analyzed by building a series of statistical models, such as cross-sectional SEM models and longitudinal models. Quantitative data will be triangulated with qualitative data to provide a more rigorous assessment of project impact. Project findings will be disseminated in journals, at conferences dedicated to STEM teacher preparation as well as venues open to increasing the diversity of the ranks of STEM teachers, and through online reports and monographs. Findings can inform teacher education programs across the country regarding diversifying teachers in P-12 schools, with a particular focus on science teachers. This project also supports research on P-12 students’ science learning experiences and the impact of civically engaged science instruction facilitated by teachers from diverse backgrounds. This Track 1: Scholarships and Stipends 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.

该项目旨在满足国家需求，以增加纽约西部高需求学区潜水员和有效的科学教师的数量和保留。以公民科学的重点，该项目将通过公民参与，对当地环境的研究以及与学校和社区合作进行的转型方法来探讨为科学教师做好准备的创新策略。该重点将与特定于社区的教师居住方法配对，该模型已证明，该模型可以产生反映更大人口多样性并明显保留更长的教师的教师。同时，公民科学的重点和居住方法可能会产生项目成果，以阐明招募，准备和留住高质量的科学教师，这些教师反映了P-12学校学生的人口统计学多样性。布法罗大学的该项目包括与布法罗公立学校和尼亚加拉瀑布城市学校的合作伙伴关系。该项目的总体目标是招募，准备和保留五个科学职业改变者和本科生物学，化学，物理和地球科学专业的20名科学教师。预计项目将有助于更深入地了解对当地环境的公民参与方法，与基于社区的现场体验相结合，可以产生高质量，文化和语言多样性的老师，这些老师对P-12学校的科学参与和学习产生积极影响。使用有关参与，保留和学习成绩的调查，访谈和数据，该项目将研究项目干预措施在准备和吸引科学教师，以及将这些老师安置在高需求学校中的有效性。将通过构建一系列统计模型（例如横截面SEM模型和纵向模型）来分析项目成果。定量数据将使用定性数据进行三角测量，以提供对项目影响的更严格的评估。项目发现将在期刊，专门用于STEM教师准备的会议上以及开放的场所，以提高STEM教师等级的多样性，以及通过在线报告和专着。调查结果可以为全国各地的教师教育计划提供有关在P-12学校中多元化的教师的信息，特别关注科学教师。该项目还支持对P-12学生科学学习经验的研究，以及由潜水员背景的教师编写的公民参与的科学指导的影响。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教师，成为高需求学区的STEM大师教师。它还支持有关高需求学区K-12 STEM教师的持久性，保留和有效性的研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估被认为是宝贵的支持。