- Year 2024
- NSF Noyce Award # 2050050
- First Name Adam
- Last Name Johnston
- Registration Noyce Scholar/Teaching Fellow/Master Teacher
- Discipline Physics, STEM Education (general)
- Role Principal Investigator (PI)
- Presenters
Braden Jorgensen, Ogden (Utah) High School; Julianne Wenner, Clemson University; Adam Johnston, Weber State University
Approach
The Weber State University Math and Science Teaching Propel Project (Propel), supported by an NSF Noyce Track 1 grant (2050050), launches proto-teachers into the field through long term, intentional classroom experiences. Over the course of two years, scholars are mentored by numerous master teachers and in varied teaching contexts. Additionally, these scholars share coursework, seminar discussions, and community engagement that provides additional experiences meant to provide scaffolding for future teaching. Through these experiences, scholars not only sharpen their tools of education, but also develop professional mindsets around science and math learning. Scholars simultaneously but individually curate their own identities as they have both unique and common experiences, and we narrate these through survey responses, interview data, and autoethnographic documentation. This work documents some of the development of teaching identities during our first two-year cohort, highlighting the professional evolution of our scholars and how these are refined by personal reflection as well as the programmatic structures of Propel.
