The STEMELL Program and Its Progression: Changing Fieldwork Into Clinical Experience—Year 3

• In Event: Preparing and Supporting Teachers Working With Specific Diverse Populations

Abstract

STEMELL prepares highly qualified science and mathematics teachers to teach English language learners in mainstream urban high-need secondary classrooms. This model consists of reform-based efforts that provide induction and epistemological growth supports that produce demonstrated positive impacts on teacher competency, and on the science and mathematics achievement of high-need, low-performing urban students in grades 7 through 12. We share some of the major findings from the third year of STEMELL’s implementation, including those related to how Noyce Scholars’ academic outcomes differ from those of other math and science students in the college, how the Scholars impact their students’ academic performances (including math, science, and ELA achievement), and the successes and challenges that Scholars experience as part of STEMELL.

Authors

• Gillian Ursula Bayne, Lehman College - CUNY

• Serigne Mbaye Gningue, Lehman College - CUNY

• Sunyata Smith, Lehman College

• Orlando Braulio Alonso, Lehman College - CUNY