Recruiting and Preparing STEM Majors as Secondary Teachers for High-Need School Districts in New Jersey

为新泽西州高需求学区招募和培养 STEM 专业的中学教师

• 批准号: 1557358
• 负责人: Beimnet Teclezghi
• 金额: $ 144.47万
• 依托单位: New Jersey City 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 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1557358&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Recruiting; Preparing; STEM; Majors; Secondary

The need for teachers of STEM disciplines with considerable depth of content and pedagogical skill, as well as strategies for engaging students from diverse backgrounds to achieve success, is well documented. This project, in which the New Jersey City University (NJCU) engages Hudson County Community College, Bergen Community College, and Middlesex County College, will recruit, prepare, and support a minimum of 20 undergraduate STEM majors in their junior and senior year and 7 STEM professionals who are committed to teach in high-need school districts. The Noyce scholars will be supported by an organized program of supplemental instruction, hands-on experiential learning, mentoring, social and academic networking, professional development, and community building activities that will enhance and strengthen the content and pedagogical knowledge of the scholarship recipients, provide them with a skill set to serve students from diverse backgrounds, and increase the retention of these highly qualified teachers in high-need districts. As a minority serving institution, NJCU is well-positioned to prepare individuals from groups underrepresented in STEM to become teachers. This will provide role models to classrooms with diverse students and will strengthen the teaching and learning of STEM courses in high-need school districts.The project will have multi-layered recruitment efforts that target several groups of potential students: NJCU STEM majors, community college STEM majors, and undecided majors. Recruitment will start early when freshman and sophomore students are offered summer internships to expose them to what it means to teach STEM. Community college STEM majors will be recruited through partnerships with three local community colleges. Participation in early field experience and mentoring by NJCU faculty and K-12 teachers will provide Noyce Scholars with a strong foundation for developing their pedagogical and discipline specific knowledge. In addition to providing opportunities for learning from experts in the different STEM and education fields, the project will develop communities of practice among the different cohorts of Noyce scholars through workshops which create a venue for interaction of the pre-service scholarship recipients learning from and with the in-service scholarship recipients. Noyce Scholars as professionals will have the opportunity to participate in regional and national educational conferences and site visits to high-need schools, further engaging them in authentic teaching-related experience. Noyce Scholars will continue their development during their student teaching course in which they will at one point take full responsibility for a classroom. They will benefit from three different types of mentors: STEM faculty mentors, Education faculty mentors, and in-service teacher mentors. In order to affect persistence of the Noyce Scholars as effective teachers in high-need school districts, the project will provide professional development activities offered by the NJCU College of Education through the first four years of the last cohort of Noyce Scholars' teaching careers. Ultimately, New Jersey public schools will benefit from 27 new committed, confident, and well-prepared STEM teachers who have a major in a STEM discipline and who are equipped with pedagogical approaches specifically designed to provide learning experiences to students from diverse backgrounds which lead to success.

STEM学科的教师需要具有相当深度的内容和教学技能，以及吸引来自不同背景的学生取得成功的策略，这是有据可查的。 这个项目，其中泽西城大学（NJCU）从事哈德逊县社区学院，卑尔根社区学院和米德尔塞克斯县学院，将招募，准备和支持至少20个本科STEM专业在他们的大三和大四和7个STEM专业谁是致力于在高需求的学区任教。 诺伊斯学者将得到有组织的补充教学计划，实践体验式学习，指导，社交和学术网络，专业发展和社区建设活动的支持，这些活动将提高和加强奖学金获得者的内容和教学知识，为他们提供一套技能，为来自不同背景的学生提供服务，并在高需求地区留住这些高素质教师。 作为一个少数民族服务机构，NJCU有能力从STEM代表性不足的群体中培养个人成为教师。 这将为不同学生的课堂提供榜样，并将加强高需求学区STEM课程的教学。该项目将针对几个潜在学生群体进行多层次的招聘工作：NJCU STEM专业，社区大学STEM专业和未确定专业。招聘工作将提前开始，大一和大二的学生将获得暑期实习机会，让他们了解教STEM意味着什么。 社区学院STEM专业将通过与三所当地社区学院的合作招募。参与NJCU教师和K-12教师的早期实地经验和指导将为诺伊斯学者提供发展他们的教学和学科特定知识的坚实基础。除了提供向不同STEM和教育领域的专家学习的机会外，该项目还将通过研讨会在诺伊斯学者的不同群体中建立实践社区，这些研讨会为职前奖学金获得者向在职奖学金获得者学习和与在职奖学金获得者进行互动创造了场所。诺伊斯学者作为专业人士将有机会参加区域和国家教育会议，并对高需求学校进行实地考察，进一步让他们获得真实的教学相关经验。诺伊斯学者将在他们的学生教学过程中继续他们的发展，他们将在一个点上承担课堂的全部责任。 他们将受益于三种不同类型的导师：STEM教师导师，教育教师导师和在职教师导师。 为了影响诺伊斯学者作为高需求学区的有效教师的持久性，该项目将通过诺伊斯学者的最后一批教学生涯的前四年提供由教育的NJCU学院提供的专业发展活动。 最终，新泽西公立学校将受益于27个新的承诺，自信和准备充分的干教师谁拥有一个干学科的专业，谁配备了专门设计的教学方法，以提供学习经验，从不同背景的学生，导致成功。