NAGC 57th Annual Convention & Exhibition
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Implementation of a STEM Project: Teachers' Initial Perceptions, Instructional Behaviors, and Knowledge of Science Content
Track
:
Research and Evaluation
Program Code:
1230
Date:
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Time:
2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
EST
Room:
C110
CO-PRESENTER
(S):
Deborah Dailey, Curriculum Peer Coach, Project STEM Starters, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Bronwyn MacFarlane, Assistant Professor of Gifted and Talented Education, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Ann Robinson, NAGC President, University of Arkansas - Little Rock
Betty Wood, Associate Professor, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
PRESENTER
:
Alicia Cotabish, Principal Investigator, Project STEM Starters, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Description
Rising Above the Gathering Storm issued a clarion call to increase America's talent pool by vastly improving K-12 mathematics and science education and by recruiting and retaining top students as scientists and engineers. To answer the call, Project STEM Starters, a Jacob K. Javits project, was developed. Project STEM Starters is focused on improving differentiated, content-specific science instruction in the elementary classroom, and increasing teacher science content knowledge. The current study reveals baseline data focused on elementary teacher perceptions, instructional behaviors, and knowledge of science content. This session presents these results and implications.
