Building Capacity to Develop STEM Teacher Leaders in Montana Rural and American Indian Schools

蒙大拿州农村和美洲印第安人学校培养 STEM 教师领导者的能力建设

• 批准号: 2243541
• 负责人: Fenqjen Luo
• 金额: $ 7.47万
• 依托单位: Montana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-04-01 至 2024-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2243541&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Capacity; Develop; STEM; Teacher

This project aims to serve the national need of building capacity to develop high-quality science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teacher leaders in rural and American Indian reservation communities. Like other rural states, Montana has a shortage of high-quality STEM teacher leaders in many geographically isolated, STEM-underrepresented, and high-needs schools and communities, particularly on and near Montana’s seven American Indian reservations. High-quality STEM teacher leaders can make a huge difference—inspiring young students to learn STEM content knowledge and pursue STEM careers, which ultimately broadens the diversity of the country’s STEM workforce. To develop high-quality STEM teacher leaders, qualified practicing STEM teachers must be recruited, trained, retained and provided ongoing support to develop their teaching competencies and hone their leadership skills.This project at Montana State University will assess the needs of STEM teachers in potential partner schools on or near four reservations (Flathead, Blackfeet, Northern Cheyenne, and Crow) while building a network of collaborators within and beyond the university. Together, these partners will develop effective methods for recruiting and selecting experienced and exemplary STEM teachers to become teacher leaders; and identify or recommend a meaningful, culturally sustaining teacher leadership development model appropriate for high-need rural and reservation communities. Our ultimate goal is to build the capacity to support a cohort of dedicated, high-quality and culturally sustaining teacher leaders who can implement and develop exemplary practices for supporting rural and American Indian students. The findings and suggested practices generated from this project will advance our knowledge and enhance our expertise on creating scaffolds to develop experienced, exemplary STEM teachers to become teacher leaders in high-need rural and minority school districts. This Capacity Building project is supported through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program. 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 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建立高质量科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教师领导者和美洲印第安人保留社区的领导者的国家需求。像其他农村国家一样，蒙大拿州在许多地理上孤立的，人数不足和高需求的学校和社区，尤其是在蒙大拿州的七个美洲印第安人保留下，缺乏高质量的STEM教师领导者。高质量的STEM教师领导者可以发挥巨大的作用 - 激励年轻学生学习STEM内容知识和购买STEM职业，这最终扩大了该国STEM劳动力的多样性。 To develop high-quality STEM teacher leaders, qualified practice STEM teachers must be recruited, trained, retained and provided ongoing support to develop their teaching competencies and Hon their leadership skills.This project at Montana State University will assess the needs of STEM teachers in potential partner schools on or near four reservations (Flathead, Blackfeet, Northern Cheyenne, and Crow) while building a network of collaborators within and beyond the university.这些合作伙伴将共同开发有效的方法来招募和选择经验以及典型的STEM教师成为教师领导者；并确定或推荐一个有意义的，具有文化维持的教师领导力发展模型，适合于高需求的农村和保留社区。我们的最终目标是建立支持一系列敬业，高质量和文化维持的教师领导者的能力，他们可以实施和发展典型实践，以支持农村和美洲印第安学生。该项目产生的发现和建议的做法将提高我们的知识，并增强我们在创建脚手架的专业知识上为发展的经验，典型的STEM教师成为高需求的粗糙和少数族裔学区的教师领导者。罗伯特·诺伊斯（Robert Noyce）教师奖学金计划支持该能力建设项目。 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有效性和保留的研究。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评估标准来评估，被认为是珍贵的支持。