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Self-Assessment: Model
Progress Rubric Look-Fors: The school has at least one STEM Education leader who is not an administrator and has at least 50% of their time allocated to leading STEM education.
The school recruits, hires, and/or trains the vast majority of teachers on their faculty to have high quality STEM instructional skills (for STEM subject area teachers) or rich understanding of the positive relationship between STEM subjects and all other subjects (non-STEM subject teachers).
The school has formal pathways to identify and develop current and future teacher-leaders for STEM education.
Instructional Coach
Instructional Coach
Jeffrey Whitt
Director of STEM Education
Director of STEM Education
Jen Stalls
STEM Coordinator Job Description and Look Fors
Hiring Process
Hiring Process
Wellcome Middle continues to use the same process when recruiting, hiring, and training teachers:
Teachers are recruited from the Teach for America program and Participate Learning
The interview process for the STEM Coordinator and teachers, asks potential hires questions regarding STEM to determine high-quality STEM instructional skills and the relationship to STEM and other subjects.
Throughout the year, teachers have training and support to build STEM instructional skills including STEM committee meetings, AVID trainings, and Teach for America trainings.
STEM Teacher Continuum
STEM Teacher Continuum
Teachers at Wellcome Middle School were given the STEM Teacher Continuum so that teachers could share where they are with STEM education and where they hope to be. The STEM Coordinator can take this information and find a focus point for the year so those teachers on the lower end (Early or Developing) can receive the support so they move toward Proficient or Accomplished. It also lets the STEM Coordinator know which teachers can move into leadership roles at the school for STEM education.
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