Preparing Highly Qualified Women STEM Majors to Become Successful Teachers

培养高素质 STEM 专业女性成为成功教师

• 批准号: 1557211
• 负责人: Carol Johnston
• 金额: $ 118.3万
• 依托单位: Mount Saint Mary's University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-07-01 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1557211&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Preparing; Highly; Qualified; Women; STEM

Studies show that there is a significant positive relationship between the presence of minority teachers in primary and secondary schools, and minority student performance. This issue is critically important to California schools, which enroll about 72% minority students but only employ about 29% minority teachers. Mount Saint Mary's University (MSMU) Noyce program will address the need for highly qualified teachers in the STEM disciplines, decrease the minority and female gender gap, and ultimately increase underrepresented groups participation in STEM. The goal of the program is to enable low-income, high-achieving, first generation women from underrepresented groups who have a passion for STEM to pursue teaching careers in middle and secondary high-need schools in Southern California. This program will recruit, prepare and support 17 women majoring in mathematics, biochemistry, biological sciences, or chemistry, who will concurrently pursue a teaching credential. MSMU is implementing the project in collaboration with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and other high-need schools in the Los Angeles area. Project activities include intensive on- and off-campus recruitment as well as program modifications and add-ons, such as Noyce program orientation, STEM-based internships with the campus Math Lab and the California Science Center, a supportive cohort environment, continuing faculty mentoring and quarterly meetings, mini-grants to enhance scholars' classroom resources, and a new course that combines mathematics, pedagogy and California Subject Examinations for Teachers (CSET) preparation. A unique aspect of the program will be training that will provide the pre-service teacher with a certificate in inclusive and responsive teaching (CIRT), which will prepare them to provide successful learning experiences for students in high need schools. The project will contribute to the body of knowledge by providing a model of effective practices in recruiting, retaining, and preparing a population that is especially absent in STEM education -- women from minority and low-income backgrounds. The project's activities and strategies for fostering greater interest in teaching mathematics and science among these students will be tracked and evaluated. Particular attention will be paid to strategies for attracting high-achieving women who have not previously considered a career in teaching. The evaluation of the project will carefully track the impact of each program component on the students' teaching practice, satisfaction and persistence in the profession.

研究表明，少数民族教师在中小学的存在与少数民族学生的成绩之间存在着显著的正相关关系。这个问题对加州的学校来说至关重要，加州学校招收了72%的少数民族学生，但只雇用了29%的少数民族教师。圣玛丽山大学（MSMU）诺伊斯计划将解决对STEM学科高素质教师的需求，减少少数民族和女性性别差距，并最终增加代表性不足的群体参与STEM。该计划的目标是使低收入，高成就，第一代妇女从代表性不足的群体谁拥有STEM的热情，追求在南加州的初中和高中高需求的学校教学生涯。该方案将招募、培养和支持17名主修数学、生物化学、生物科学或化学的妇女，她们将同时获得教师资格证书。MSMU正在与洛杉矶联合学区（LAUSD）和洛杉矶地区的其他高需求学校合作实施该项目。 项目活动包括密集的校内和校外招聘以及计划修改和附加项目，如诺伊斯计划方向，与校园数学实验室和加州科学中心的STEM实习，支持性的队列环境，持续的教师指导和季度会议，小额赠款，以加强学者的课堂资源，以及结合数学，教育学和加州学科教师考试（CSET）的准备。该计划的一个独特方面将是培训，这将为职前教师提供包容性和响应式教学（CIRT）证书，这将使他们为高需求学校的学生提供成功的学习经验做好准备。该项目将通过提供一个有效做法的模式，为STEM教育中特别缺乏的人口-少数民族和低收入背景的妇女-的招聘、保留和准备做出贡献。将跟踪和评价该项目为提高这些学生对数学和科学教学的兴趣而开展的活动和采取的战略。将特别注意吸引以前没有考虑过从事教学职业的成绩优异的妇女的战略。该项目的评估将仔细跟踪每个项目组成部分对学生的教学实践，满意度和职业坚持的影响。