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SciMath Teaching Fellows Program:

SciMath Teaching Fellows Program:. A Paradigm for a New Beginning for STEM career changers for school professionals and learners for higher education. Funding from …. U. S. Department of Education and with support from congressional representatives and senators

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SciMath Teaching Fellows Program:

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  1. SciMath Teaching Fellows Program: A Paradigm for a New Beginning for STEM career changers for school professionals and learners for higher education

  2. Funding from … • U. S. Department of Education and with support from congressional representatives and senators • Ohio University’s College of Education and Human Services • SEOCEMS

  3. Purpose • based on earlier work submitted for the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship program … • “… develop an innovative, regionally sensitive, content rich, school-embedded, time accelerated program for STEM education teacher preparation.”

  4. A 1st Step - How? Use collaborative processes to: • Design and operate a Pilot: test ideas and processes • Evaluate impact & document outcomes • Reward risk taking and collaboration • Support Fellows and Mentors for success • Enrich the lives of school pupils

  5. Processes • Intensive & Accelerated, 1 year • Teach to Inquire to Learn to Teach - an embedded Fellowship with Mentors and learners • Research-based Mentor preparation • Re-aligned, synergistic course preparation for Fellows • Extensive, strategic field work and applied action research • STEM context & modified course work • New delivery mechanisms • Immersion in to a professional community of learners • Evaluation informs program innovation & redesign

  6. Outcomes • Do No Harm: • Add value, enrich pupil learning, support the school’s & Mentor’s missions • For Fellows - top level new teacher preparation • Continued professional teacher development for all • PRAXIS II PLT success • University program revision • Strong professionals added to the pipeline with a history of successes

  7. 10 Peer Programs 14 month average Full Time On-campus, face 2 face PRAXIS II at end 60 credit average (qtr equiv) Moderate field component 60% no financial aid SciMath Fellows Pilot 12 months Full Time On-campus, face 2 face, in-field PRAXIS II content @ beginning, PLT @ end 80+ credits Intensive, extensive field, full year Fellowship and tuition scholarship How does the pilot compare?

  8. Schedule (tentative) 80+ credits • Summer ‘10 - 15 credits • Learners, planning, teaching, reading • Fall ‘10 - 18 credits, school 3 days • Principles of research, action research, special education, reading • Intersession ‘10 - 9 credits, continue in schools • Reading, special topics • Winter ‘11 - 14-19 credits, school 4 days • Special methods in math, science, social studies • Reading • Special topics & research plans, designs • Spring ‘11 - 16 credits, school full time • Student Teaching Internship • Gather research data • Take the PRAXIS II PLT exam • Summer ‘11 - 9 credits • Masters Research Project • Special Topics and research “conference” presentations

  9. Guiding Principles and Standards • Inquiry habits of mind and actions • Research base and actions • Ohio Standards for the Teaching Profession • Academic content standards of the discipline • PRAXIS II content and PLT examinations

  10. Mentors Provide much needed support, guidance and assistance: • Involve Fellows in all aspects of being a teacher as related to teaching standards, • Add depth to the Fellows’ knowledge of professional practice and subject matter, • Assist the Fellows’ professional “habits of mind and practice:” plan, act, observe, reflect • Collaborate with and assist faculty with program redesign and improvement

  11. Fellows • School beginning to the end • Add value from STEM career • Learn via structured skills and behaviors based on standards for the teaching profession • Growth toward autonomy • Extensive professional internship

  12. The Research Plan Institute for Democracy in Education • Evaluation through research • Creation of special tools, interaction among Mentors, Fellows, Faculty & Evaluators Fellows • Embedded action research • Improving teaching and learning • Masters Research Project

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