Capacity Building: Spelman's STEM Teacher Education Pipeline (SSTEP)

能力建设：斯佩尔曼的 STEM 教师教育管道 (SSTEP)

• 批准号: 1439757
• 负责人: Shannon Sung
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Spelman College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1439757&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Capacity; Building; Spelman; STEM; Teacher

With funding from the National Science Foundation's Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, this project will address the Nation's growing need to recruit and prepare secondary STEM teachers, but also to provide new teachers with the support that they need to ensure that they remain in the teaching profession. This capacity building project from Spelman College will address the challenges involved in recruiting STEM students into teacher preparation programs. Spelman College has an excellent Secondary STEM Teacher Preparation program; however, no Spelman students, only students from other institutions, have enrolled in that program. In response to the need for effective recruiting, this project will create an avenue for incoming freshman and rising sophomores at Spelman College to follow a recruitment pathway that exposes interested students to STEM education.The project PI team will create an "Exposure, Exploration, Engagement, and Educator-preparation" pathway for recruiting STEM majors into careers in secondary STEM teaching. Each step of the capacity building pathway reinforces students' understanding of the intricacies involved in becoming a STEM educator. The elements of the program have all been demonstrated to be effective mechanisms for the recruitment of students into teaching. The first element is exposure to STEM teaching through informational sessions and workshops describing STEM education and research in STEM education. Students then explore STEM teaching through positions as undergraduate teaching assistants (UTAs). Finally they are engaged in STEM education and research through a STEM Undergraduate Research Educator (SURE) summer program. This recruitment pathway leads the students into the culmination of the process, formal educator-preparation through the Spelman secondary education program. The formal evaluation plan of the project is providing knowledge that will inform successful recruitment of STEM students into STEM teaching, particularly the recruitment of women and minority students, into programs across the nation. One indicator regarding the success of this pipeline will be viewed through the number of students enrolling in Spelman's Orientation to Education course, a mandatory class needed before a student can apply to the teacher certification program.

在国家科学基金会罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划的资助下，该项目将解决国家日益增长的招聘和培养中学STEM教师的需求，同时也为新教师提供所需的支持，以确保他们继续从事教学职业。 Spelman College的这个能力建设项目将解决招募STEM学生进入教师准备计划所面临的挑战。 斯佩尔曼学院有一个优秀的中学STEM教师准备计划;然而，没有斯佩尔曼学生，只有来自其他机构的学生，参加了该计划。 为了满足有效招聘的需求，该项目将为Spelman College的新生和即将毕业的学生创造一条途径，让感兴趣的学生接触STEM教育。项目PI团队将创建一条“接触，探索，参与和教育者准备”的途径，用于招募STEM专业的学生进入中学STEM教学职业。 能力建设途径的每一步都加强了学生对成为STEM教育工作者所涉及的复杂性的理解。 该方案的所有要素都被证明是招聘学生进入教学的有效机制。 第一个要素是通过介绍STEM教育和STEM教育研究的信息会议和研讨会接触STEM教学。 然后，学生通过担任本科教学助理（UTAs）来探索STEM教学。 最后，他们通过STEM本科研究教育者（SURE）暑期课程从事STEM教育和研究。 这种招聘途径引导学生进入过程的高潮，通过斯派曼中学教育计划进行正式的教育者准备。该项目的正式评估计划提供的知识将为成功招募STEM学生进入STEM教学提供信息，特别是招募女性和少数民族学生进入全国各地的项目。关于这一管道的成功的一个指标将通过在斯佩尔曼的教育方向课程，学生可以申请教师认证计划之前需要必修课注册的学生人数来查看。