Developing Computer Science Master Teachers for Georgia Rural Schools

为佐治亚州农村学校培养计算机科学硕士教师

• 批准号: 2147890
• 负责人: Thomas Koballa
• 金额: $ 149.98万
• 依托单位: Mercer University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-05-01 至 2027-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2147890&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Developing; Computer; Science; Master; Teachers

The project aims to serve the national need of developing highly effective computer science (CS) teacher leaders. These teacher leaders will be prepared to strengthen the ability of rural school systems to provide access to high-quality CS instruction for all students. In preparing CS teacher leaders, the project seeks to address the insufficient level of CS instruction in rural schools, a significant gap in the STEM knowledge pipeline. The project will prepare 16 exemplary and certified grades 6-12 STEM teacher leaders in southern Georgia schools. The preparation of CS teacher leaders will encourage continuing CS education in partnering school districts and provide CS learning experiences for current and future students. Project efforts are aligned with the Georgia Department of Education's CS Career Pathways and opportunities to pursue careers in a well-paying industry with a shortage of applicants. Partnerships with agriculture, health care, and the military will provide participating teachers with exposure to paths for students to pursue CS careers. Providing students with CS educational experiences that can lead to well-compensated jobs will provide economic benefits to rural communities across the entire region. This project at Mercer University includes partnerships with Wiregrass Georgia Technical College, the Computer Science for Georgia Academic Partners Network, and Georgia high-need school districts in Clinch County, Coffee County, Dublin City, Evans County, Jeff Davis County, Tattnall County, Treutlen County, and Wheeler County. Unique to the proposed project is CS as a new teaching area for experienced STEM teachers. The project will implement and investigate a professional development approach to increase the number and diversity of CS teacher leaders in rural, high-need school systems in southern Georgia. Guiding the project's approach and evaluation is a research-based framework that extends the work of the Developing Master Teachers through the South Carolina Science and Mathematics Teacher Leaders program, which highlights areas of need for rural school systems and their teachers, specific to CS teaching and leadership. The project team will employ research-based strategies to develop a network of teacher leaders with CS content and pedagogical knowledge, understandings of instructional coaching, and awareness of content-specific teacher leadership. The strategies will be implemented through a 14-month online Educational Specialist in Teacher Leadership master’s degree program, followed by online CS mini-courses, in-person CS Leadership Assemblies, and CS system-level planning events. Evaluation and assessment data will be used to investigate how the project approach affects the learning, actions, and dispositions of the Master Teaching Fellows (MTFs) and school and system-level factors impacting the MTFs' success as CS teacher leaders. Nonprofit and industry partners will provide the MTFs with CS career-focused links within rural communities. Project results will be presented at professional conferences and submitted for publication. This Track 3: Master Teaching Fellowship project is supported by the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce). The Noyce program supports talented STEM undergraduate majors and professionals to become STEM master teachers in high-need school districts. It also supports research on the retention and effectiveness of K-12 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.

该项目旨在满足发展高效计算机科学（CS）教师领导者的国家需求。这些教师领导者将准备增强农村学校系统为所有学生提供高质量CS教学的能力。该项目在准备CS教师领导者时，试图解决农村学校CS教学水平不足，这是STEM知识管道的显着差距。该项目将在佐治亚州南部学校准备16个典范和认证的6至12年级的STEM教师领导者。 CS教师领导者的准备将鼓励继续CS教育在合作学区，并为当前和未来的学生提供CS学习经验。项目努力与佐治亚州教育部的CS职业途径和在薪水良好的行业购买职业的机会保持一致，申请人不足。与农业，卫生保健和军队的伙伴关系将为参与的教师提供接触学生从事CS职业的途径。为学生提供CS教育经验，这些教育经验可以带来富有补偿的工作，将为整个地区的农村社区带来经济利益。该项目在默瑟大学（Mercer University）包括与Wiregrass Georgia技术学院，佐治亚州学术合作伙伴网络的计算机科学，以及位于Clinch县的乔治亚高需求学区，咖啡县，都柏林市，都柏林市，埃文斯县，埃文斯县，杰夫·戴维斯县，杰夫·戴维斯县，塔特纳尔县，特里特伦县塔特纳尔县，以及惠勒县。拟议项目独有的是CS是有经验的STEM教师的新教学领域。该项目将实施和调查一种专业发展方法，以增加佐治亚州南部艰难，高需求的学校系统中CS教师领导者的数量和多样性。指导项目的方法和评估是一个基于研究的框架，它通过南卡罗来纳州科学和数学教师领导者计划扩展了发展中的硕士教师的工作，该计划突出了针对艰难的学校系统及其教师的需求领域，该领域针对CS教学和领导才能。项目团队将采用基于研究的策略来开发具有CS内容和教学知识的教师领导网络，对教学教练的理解以及对特定于内容的教师领导的认识。这些策略将通过教师领导力硕士学位课程的14个月在线教育专家进行实施，然后是在线CS Mini-Courses，In-Mer-Mer-in-Mer-in-Mer-necor CS领导力集会和CS系统级规划活动。评估和评估数据将用于研究项目方法如何影响大师教学研究员（MTFS）以及学校以及系统级别的因素，影响MTF作为CS教师领导者的成功。非营利组织和行业合作伙伴将为MTF提供崎consulive的社区中以CS职业为中心的链接。项目结果将在专业会议上提出并提交出版。这首歌3：大师教学奖学金项目得到了罗伯特·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，成为高需求学区的STEM硕士教师。它还支持有关K-12教师在高需求学区的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。