Shaping Innovative New Educators in STEM through Culturally Responsive, Sustaining, and Ecologically Grounded Hands-on Experiences and Professional Development

通过文化响应、可持续发展和生态基础的实践经验和专业发展，塑造 STEM 领域的创新型新教育工作者

• 批准号: 2243395
• 负责人: Nathan Shank
• 金额: $ 119.98万
• 依托单位: Moravian University
• 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: 2023-03-01 至 2028-02-29
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2243395&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Shaping; Innovative; New; Educators; STEM

This project aims to serve the national need for increasing the number of highly-qualified STEM educators, especially those serving students in high-need schools. The project will recruit prospective STEM majors and STEM professionals and provide scholarship support beginning in their junior year or stipend support for post-baccalaureate teacher certification. Scholars will be immersed in a combination of specialized coursework, field experiences, professional development and mentoring, educational nonprofit partnerships, and summer pre-teaching opportunities. The experiences and programmatic elements are designed to prepare teachers for success with youth who are most in need of highly-qualified and committed STEM educators. Scholars will develop rigorous and equitable practices that address their students’ academic, social, and emotional needs by working with a team of faculty in STEM, education, and psychology.The project at Moravian University includes partnerships with the Allentown School District, Bethlehem Area School District, Communities in School of Eastern Pennsylvania, and Lehigh Valley Summerbridge. Three project goals provide a framework for the principal investigators work. First is to recruit and increase the number of highly qualified and diverse STEM prospective teachers enrolled at Moravian University. Second is to prepare STEM teachers with innovative hands-on experiences and high-impact practices that provide them with the skills to become culturally responsive and highly effective educators in high-need school districts. Third and finally is to retain teachers by enhancing their support system of STEM educators to increase success as innovative, highly effective, long-term professionals in high-need schools. The program is guided by an ecologically grounded perspective on STEM teaching and learning. By emphasizing the importance of pedagogical content knowledge and culturally responsive teaching, this project has strong potential to prepare future educators for successful careers as STEM educators in high-need schools. The project aims to recruit and support a total of 28 undergraduate and post-baccalaureate scholars in biology, general science, computer science, and mathematics. By modeling STEM excellence in high-need schools, the project has the potential to prepare STEM teachers who will teach and inspire students to pursue careers in STEM. Project evaluation will assess the impact of support system on teacher success and retention. Results from the projects will be disseminated through various STEM teacher education conferences and journals such as the Journal of Biological Education and the Association of Science Teacher Education annual conference. This Track 1: Scholarship 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 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增加高素质 STEM 教育工作者数量的需求，特别是那些为高需求学校的学生服务的教育工作者。该项目将招募未来的 STEM 专业和 STEM 专业人士，并从大三开始提供奖学金支持或津贴。为获得学士学位后的教师认证提供支持，学者们将沉浸在专业课程、现场经验、专业发展和指导、教育非营利合作伙伴关系以及暑期教学前机会的组合中。学者们将通过与 STEM、教育领域的教师团队合作，制定严格且公平的做法，满足学生的学术、社会和情感需求。摩拉维亚大学的该项目包括与阿伦敦学区、伯利恒地区学区、东宾夕法尼亚学校社区和利哈伊谷夏桥分校的合作，三个项目目标为主要研究人员的工作提供了一个框架。并增加高度的数量其次是为摩拉维亚大学招收的合格且多样化的 STEM 教师提供创新的实践经验和高影响力的实践，为他们提供成为高需求学区的文化敏感和高效教育者的技能。最后，通过加强 STEM 教育工作者的支持系统来留住教师，以提高高需求学校中创新、高效、长期专业人员的成功率。该计划以 STEM 教学和学习的生态视角为指导。的重要性教学内容知识和文化响应式教学，该项目具有强大的潜力，可以帮助未来的教育工作者在高需求学校成为成功的 STEM 教育者。该项目旨在招募和支持总共 28 名生物学、普通科的本科生和学士后学者。通过在高需求学校中建立 STEM 卓越模型，该项目有可能培养 STEM 教师，他们将教授并激励学生从事 STEM 职业。 项目评估将评估支持系统对教师的影响。成功项目的结果将通过各种 STEM 教师教育会议和期刊传播，例如《生物教育杂志》和科学教师教育协会年会。该轨道 1：奖学金和津贴项目由罗伯特·诺伊斯教师提供支持。奖学金计划（诺伊斯）。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。它还支持有关高需求学区 K-12 STEM 教师的有效性和保留的研究。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。