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in the education of STEM teachers for high-need school districts through sharing of evidence-based innovations
to encourage adaption and move forward collective evolution of effective preparation.
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Supporting Newly Hired Science Teachers for Continuous Learning
Since the advent of national and state teaching standards (e.g., Council of Chief State School Officers, 2013; Georgia Professional Standards Commission, n.d.), teacher educators have been contemplating how to support teachers from their preservice program through their first years of teaching (Darling-Hammond, 2017). Well-developed programs that contribute to the successful transition of a newly hired... Read More
How to Center Equity and Humanize the Process of Coming Back Together: A Focus on Joy and Justice in STEM Education
Listen to Dr. Kirkland’s presentation at the Noyce Summit. It would be an understatement to say that we are living through life-changing and challenging times. We are facing multiple pandemics: the health crisis precipitated by COVID; the social crisis reignited by the murders of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd; and the economic crisis... Read More
Educating K-12 Students of Color: Lessons from Minority-Serving Institutions
More than half of all children in public schools are students of color, but only about a fifth of educators are teachers of color (National Center for Education Statistics, 2016). This mismatch is problematic for a number of reasons. For one, there is considerable evidence that teachers of color provide academic as well as social... Read More
Growing STAR Teacher-Researchers
Can programs focused on helping pre-service educators build a teacher-researcher dual identity change the notion that STEM ability is something that one is either born with or without? There is a growing number of teacher-researcher programs that provide authentic laboratory experiences to aspiring and practicing teachers. Such programs span the gamut of Undergraduate Research Experiences... Read More
Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers’ Learning About Equity: Methods and Early Results of Our Study
Through our Noyce Track 4 research project, we are exploring middle and high school mathematics teacher development related to equity beginning during the students’ preparation programs and extending into their first two years of teaching. Improving our efforts to support future teachers’ learning about equity is important because “the prevailing ideological preference [among both preservice teachers... Read More
Unconscious Bias in the Classroom: How Cultural Stereotypes Affect Teachers’ Assessment of Students’ Math Abilities
There are troubling, persistent achievement gaps among students from different racial and ethnic backgrounds in the United States. In addition, women and people of color are underrepresented in STEM-related fields, which contributes to the wealth and wage inequity in our society. Cultural stereotypes, for example, that mathematics requires natural ability or that certain groups have... Read MoreAdditional Posts
How Can We Prepare Teachers to Embed a Virtuous Cycle of Self-Evaluation into Their Practice? | May 6, 2020
Is This “TRE” for Me? A Review of the Literature on Teacher Research Experiences and Impact on K-12 STEM Classrooms | April 6, 2020
What Do Preservice Science Teachers Understand about Principles of Effective Teaching for Diverse Learners? | February 26, 2020
Four Things You Need to Know about STEM and Education for 2020 | January 21, 2020
How Can Pre-service STEM Teachers Enact Project-Based Learning for Authentic Community Engagement? | December 30, 2019
STEM Professional Development That Works | November 13, 2019
How Can Elementary Teachers Improve Their Ability to Run Productive Science Discussions? | October 28, 2019
Opportunity to Learn Mathematics: Time, Task, & Talk | October 9, 2019
Preparing Our Next Generation of Science Teachers: What Should a Science Teacher Know and Be Able to Do? | September 25, 2019
Preparing New Teachers: How Collaboration Across Professional Associations Can Advance Technology Infusion | August 7, 2019
Bulldozing the STEM Silos in Omaha While Engaging P-12 Teachers and Building Campus STEM Excellence | March 25, 2019
Return on Investment:
How do we know if we are preparing teachers who are ready for today’s classrooms?
| January 25, 2019
Reflecting On Our Roots – Part Seventeen: Teachers for the 21st Century | September 13, 2018
