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Session presenters/authors have worked to support STEM education in Native American serving schools for many years. During the last few years, substantial progress has been made towards capacity-building and sustaining culturally sustaining STEM activity. This session will highlight the ways that improved communication and collaboration among project partners (teachers, teacher educators, school administrators, community members, STEM professionals) have supported this progress. Recommendations for Native American STEM partnerships based on these experiences will be shared in this session.
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Participatory Design Based Research with Native American serving Middle Schools
Professional development in Native American serving schools is evolving and having improved results via participatory design-based research. Instead of starting teacher education projects with a firmly set curriculum, design-based research utilizes iterative rounds of curriculum development and re-design by using feedback from participating teachers along, community advisors, instructors, and project partners. This paper describes how design-based research principles were applied within a research project focused on STEM education in Native American serving middle schools and the results of doing so.
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- PAR ID:
- 10521612
- Publisher / Repository:
- Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference
- Date Published:
- ISBN:
- 978-1-939797-68-1
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 377-382
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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