- Year 2024
- NSF Award #2049983
- Registration Noyce Scholar/Teaching Fellow/Master Teacher
- Role Current Noyce Scholar
- First Name Christopher
- Last Name Chow
- Discipline Chemistry, Geosciences, Life Sciences, Physics
- Institution Queens College, City University of New York
Abstract
The Noyce SciTech TEAMS Program at Queens College believes in the importance of educational research to support teacher candidates in their pedagogical skillset. Teacher candidates in the program complete a two-semester educational research course in which they conduct an original action research project. The results of the project are then presented at the annual SciTech Conference for STEM education stakeholders. The tenets of educational research for teachers are to improve classroom practice, to promote reflective practice, and to lead rather than to follow. Teachers can engage in action research, mixed methods research, and collaboration with colleagues through research in their classrooms. Noyce scholars in the SciTech Program have suggested that learning about educational research has allowed them to gain a handle on what students know based on performances of understanding, examine the efficacy of a pedagogical strategy, understand students’ engagement and motivation behaviors, and study the impact of culturally responsive teaching practices on student achievement. Participation in the SciTech Program allows opportunity to participate in and conduct research in a way that motivates future teachers to continue to engage with educational research to best support their students. The informal educational experiences as well as the use of drones have provided novel avenues for research afforded to teacher candidates to explore through the SciTech Program.
Focus
Lessons learned from developing/implementing a Track 1 project, Track 2 project, Track 3 project, or Track 4 Research project, Supporting new teachers/induction, Developing teacher leaders
