STEMELL Year 2: Preparing STEM Teachers to Teach English Language Learners in Mainstream High-Need Classrooms

• In Event: 66.033 - STEM in Teacher Preparation

Abstract

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics for English Language Learners (STEMELL), a new five-year Noyce Phase I Program, is a partnership between an urban college and its local community school districts in the northeastern part of the United States, that aims to prepare highly qualified science and mathematics teachers to teach English language learners (ELLs) in mainstream urban high-need secondary classrooms. This model is one that 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. In this paper presentation, we share some of the major findings from the second year of STEMELL’s implementation.

Authors

• Serigne Mbaye Gningue, Lehman College - CUNY

• Gillian Ursula Bayne, Lehman College - CUNY

• Sunyata Smith, Lehman College

• Orlando Braulio Alonso, Lehman College - CUNY