Preparing, Supporting, and Diversifying STEM Teachers for High-Needs Schools in California’s Central Valley by Promoting Social and Environmental Justice Pedagogies

通过促进社会和环境正义教育学，为加州中央谷的高需求学校培养、支持 STEM 教师并使之多样化

• 批准号: 2243457
• 负责人: Bjorg Johannsdottir
• 金额: $ 119.13万
• 依托单位: California State University-Stanislaus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-04-01 至 2028-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2243457&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Preparing; Supporting; Diversifying; STEM; Teachers

This project aims to serve the national need for preparing and retaining high-quality STEM teachers who are prepared to teach in high-need school districts. Research indicates that when teachers and students have similar demographics, students' test scores, attendance, and suspension rates are positively affected. Marginalized social groups consistently bear differential impacts, and all fields of science and mathematics are called upon for commitments to improve STEM knowledge and to create solutions for equitable advancement of K-12 students with STEM literacies. To foster these improvements, a focus of the project will be to provide teacher preparation for undergraduate STEM majors or STEM degree holders to become educators with strong content knowledge and pedagogical expertise that target social and environmental justice initiatives. Teacher preparation and induction will emphasize empowerment, transformative leadership, equitable and inclusive educational practices, and research-informed instruction through planned curricular and induction-period activities, as well as participation in a professional learning community. This will enable high-need schools in California's Central Valley and other areas nationwide to provide their students a strong and inclusive science and mathematics education. This, in turn, will help prepare many of these same students for the STEM workforce.This project at California State University-Stanislaus (CSU-Stanislaus), an Hispanic serving institution (HSI), includes partnerships with Turlock Unified School District (USD), Stockton USD, and Modesto City Schools. The project will be guided by several goals. First, over five years, the project will recruit and prepare a diverse set of twenty-five (25) high-quality students, who are undergraduate majors or who have a degree, in biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, geoscience, mathematics, or physics, to become K-12 STEM teachers in high-needs schools. A special focus will be on recruiting students of color and other minorities who are traditionally underrepresented in the STEM arena. The Scholars, who would be supported for up to three years if a current undergraduate student, and for one credentialing year if already holding a STEM degree, would represent an increase of twenty-five STEM teachers beyond current numbers. Second, project activities and CSU-Stanislaus curricula will provide these prospective STEM teachers with high-level STEM content knowledge and culturally sustaining pedagogies as well as leadership, socio-emotional learning, and active learning skills and expertise to prepare them for their future classrooms in high-needs schools. This process will also feature preparation with respect to national narratives, frameworks, and standards concerning teaching and student learning. A third goal is to decrease teacher burnout and attrition rates by creating an induction process that includes a professional learning community and networking opportunities aimed at connecting practicing STEM teachers with one another. A fourth goal is to create, implement, study, sustain, and disseminate a model that (1) involves research-based best practices to prepare and retain prospective STEM teachers, especially from traditionally marginalized groups, and (2) emphasizes pedagogies that attend to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Comprehensive mixed-methods project evaluation will provide formative and summative assessment and feedback. Through publications, conferences presentations, and workshops, investigators will proactively disseminate project findings and outcomes to other CSU campuses and nationwide. 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-needs school districts. It also supports research on the effectiveness and retention 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培养和留住高素质 STEM 教师的需求，这些教师准备在高需求学区任教。研究表明，当教师和学生的人口统计数据相似时，学生的考试成绩、出勤率和停课率都会受到积极影响。边缘化的社会群体始终承受着不同的影响，科学和数学的所有领域都被呼吁致力于提高 STEM 知识，并为 K-12 学生的 STEM 素养的公平进步制定解决方案。为了促进这些改进，该项目的重点将是为本科 STEM 专业或 STEM 学位持有者提供教师准备，使他们成为具有丰富的内容知识和教学专业知识的教育工作者，以社会和环境正义举措为目标。教师准备和入职培训将强调赋权、变革性领导、公平和包容的教育实践、通过计划的课程和入职阶段活动以及参与专业学习社区进行研究指导。这将使加州中央山谷和全国其他地区的高需求学校能够为学生提供强大且包容的科学和数学教育。反过来，这将帮助许多这些学生为 STEM 劳动力做好准备。加州州立大学斯坦尼斯劳斯分校 (CSU-Stanislaus) 的这个项目是一所西班牙裔服务机构 (HSI)，包括与特洛克联合学区 (USD) 的合作伙伴关系、斯托克顿美元和莫德斯托市学校。该项目将遵循几个目标。首先，该项目将在五年内招募和培养一批二十五 (25) 名高素质学生，他们是生物学、化学、计算机科学、工程学、地球科学、数学领域的本科专业或拥有学位或物理，成为高需求学校的 K-12 STEM 教师。我们将特别关注招收传统上在 STEM 领域代表性不足的有色人种和其他少数族裔学生。如果目前是本科生，学者们将获得长达三年的支持；如果已经持有 STEM 学位，学者们将获得一年的认证支持，这意味着在目前的基础上增加了 25 名 STEM 教师。其次，项目活动和科罗拉多州立大学斯坦尼斯劳斯课程将为这些未来的 STEM 教师提供高水平的 STEM 内容知识和文化维持教学法以及领导力、社会情感学习、主动学习技能和专业知识，为他们未来的课堂做好准备。高需求学校。这一过程还将包括有关教学和学生学习的国家叙述、框架和标准的准备。第三个目标是通过创建一个入职流程来降低教师倦怠和流失率，其中包括专业学习社区和旨在将实践中的 STEM 教师相互联系起来的社交机会。第四个目标是创建、实施、研究、维持和传播一个模型，该模型 (1) 涉及基于研究的最佳实践，以培养和留住未来的 STEM 教师，特别是来自传统边缘化群体的教师，以及 (2) 强调注重以下方面的教学法：多样性、公平性和包容性。综合混合方法项目评估将提供形成性和总结性评估和反馈。通过出版物、会议演讲和研讨会，研究人员将主动向科罗拉多州立大学其他校园和全国传播项目发现和成果。此轨道 1：奖学金和津贴项目由罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划 (Noyce) 支持。诺伊斯计划支持有才华的 STEM 本科专业和专业人士成为高效的 K-12 STEM 教师，并支持经验丰富、堪称典范的 K-12 教师成为高需求学区的 STEM 大师级教师。它还支持对高需求学区 K-12 STEM 教师的有效性和保留率的研究。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。