The STEM Leadership Institute: Meeting the Challenge of STEM Professional Development in High-Need Schools

• In Event: 16.062 - Poster Session 2
  In Poster Session: 16.062-2 - Division K Section 8 Poster Session 4

Abstract

STEM Leads is a multi-year professional development program whereby teachers actively participate in ongoing research about local geology and ecology alongside scientists, STEM graduate and undergraduate students, and teacher educators. Coupled with these research experiences are opportunities for teachers to reflect upon ways to meaningfully integrate the Next Generation Science Standards as well as project-based, proficiency-based, and place-based principles or “touchstones” into their teaching practice. This study seeks to examine the development of the STEM touchstones and the extent that teachers begin to integrate STEM touchstones into their teaching practice during the 2015-16 academic year.

Authors

• Regina E. Toolin, The University of Vermont

• Herman W. Meyers, Lighthouse Evaluation

• Stephanie Ratmeyer, The University of Vermont

• Simon N. Jorgenson, The University of Vermont

• Donna Rizzo, University of Vermont

• Michael Blouin