The Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program

NSF
NSF
  • Home
  • The Program
    • NSF Noyce Program Directors
    • NSF Noyce Grant Solicitation
    • Scholar Profiles
    • Alumni Profiles
    • Voices From the Field Videos
  • Project Locator
    • Select from Map
    • Advanced Search
    • Submit Info
  • In the News
    • In the News
  • Meetings
    • 2021 Noyce Summit
    • 2020 Virtual Noyce Summit
    • 2020 Noyce PI Block Party
    • Archived Noyce Summit Materials
    • Noyce Regional Meetings
  • Resources
    • Proposal Preparation Toolkit
    • 2020 Noyce Project Videos
    • Noyce Summit Abstract Catalogs
    • Reports
    • Toolkits
    • ARISE Research Community
  • Contact

Preparing Pre-Service Science Teachers to Teach Science in Linguistically Diverse Classrooms

  • Year 2019
  • NSF Noyce Award # 1439858
  • First Name Alexis
  • Last Name Rutt
  • Institution University of Virginia
  • Role/Position Project personnel, doctoral student, and co-instructor
  • Workshop Category Track 1: Scholarships and Stipends
  • Workshop Disciplines Audience Biological
  • Target Audience Evaluators/Education Researchers, Project PIs / Co-PIs / Other Faculty/Staff
  • Topics Preparing Teachers for High-Need School Districts
  • Session Length 30 minutes
  • Additional Presenter(s)

    Dr. Frackson Mumba, fm4v@virginia.edu, University of Virginia, PI and co-instructor

Goals

By the end of this session, participants will have a better understanding of the extant research on preparing pre-service teachers to teach science in linguistically diverse classrooms, as well as a model that can be used to do so in secondary science teaching methods courses.

Evidence

The language and literacy integrated science instructional framework that guided our intervention was developed based on significant research on the fields of pre-service science teacher preparation for linguistically diverse classrooms, as well as research on best practices for teaching science to linguistically diverse students. Evidence for our intervention, including in what ways pre-service teachers’ understanding and perspectives of and instructional planning for language and literacy integrated science instruction evolved over the intervention, is currently under evaluation for the 2018-2019 Noyce cohort. Data sources include pre-, mid-, and post-intervention surveys, lesson plans, and mid- and post-intervention interviews. Preliminary findings will be shared during the workshop session.

Proposal

Science classrooms are becoming increasingly linguistically diverse (i.e., inclusive of students who are still learning English, commonly called English Learners or ELs), requiring that pre-service teachers be prepared to teach science in a way that integrates language and literacy into the content, especially at the secondary level. During this workshop, we will describe how we worked with our graduate Noyce scholars during their science methods courses to prepare them to teach linguistically diverse students using a research-informed language and literacy integrated science instructional framework. In particular, we will discuss how we incorporated this instructional framework into our traditional methods instruction to ensure that the integration of language and literacy was grounded in effective, rigorous science instruction. We will also detail some preliminary findings related to our 2018-2019 Noyce cohort’s understanding and perceptions of and planning abilities for language and literacy integrated science instruction following their participation in our re-designed methods courses.

What’s New

  • 2020 Virtual Noyce Summit
  • 2020 Noyce PI Block Party
  • 2020 Noyce Project Videos
  • Frequently Asked Questions for the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program
  • Become a Noyce Scholar or Teacher Leader
  • Noyce Alumni: Where Are They Now?
  • ARISE Reseach Community Webinars

Check out our ARISE website for research & opportunities!

Checking In

NSF

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant Numbers DUE-2041597 and DUE-1548986. Any opinions, findings, interpretations, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of its authors and do not represent the views of the AAAS Board of Directors, the Council of AAAS, AAAS’ membership or the National Science Foundation.

AAAS

The World's Largest General Scientific Society

  • About Noyce Program
  • AAAS STEM Education
  • Subscribe to ARISE
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
© 2021 American Association for the Advancement of Science