The STEM teacher pipeline: building capacity through intra-university cooperation and external partnerships with high schools and 2-year colleges

STEM 教师队伍：通过大学内部合作以及与高中和两年制学院的外部伙伴关系进行能力建设

• 批准号: 1660612
• 负责人: Matthew Capps
• 金额: $ 12.39万
• 依托单位: Midwestern State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-06-15 至 2020-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1660612&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STEM; teacher; pipeline; building; capacity

With capacity-building funding from the NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, a team at Midwestern State University (MSU) will address the need for K-12 STEM teachers in Texas by partnering with Weatherford College, North Central Texas College, and the Texas Association of Future Educators (TAFE). The project will improve the recruitment of STEM-interested students to the teaching profession and strengthen relationships among the MSU College of Science & Mathematics (COSM), the MSU Gordon T. & Ellen West College of Education (WCOE), area high schools, and the partnering two-year colleges. Specifically, the project will assess the interest in and perceived challenges of secondary teacher certification in STEM, enhance the recruitment and advising materials available to undergraduate STEM students, and create formal relationships with high schools through their local TAFE chapters. This project will contribute to the knowledge base through extensive data collection and analysis across multiple groups (high school students, two-year college students, MSU STEM majors, current preservice and in-service teachers) to understand the interest in and barriers to pursuing a career in secondary STEM education. Data from this research will be useful to STEM teacher education programs as they strive to address teacher shortages. This project will also evaluate the innovative strategy of strengthening relationships between education faculty and STEM faculty through the learning communities model of linked courses. Furthermore, improved understanding of the success and impact of articulation agreements and degree completion programs will help improve upon the important relationships between universities and two-year colleges.

通过NSF Robert Noyce教师奖学金计划的能力建设资金，中西部州立大学（MSU）的一个团队将通过与韦瑟福德学院，德克萨斯州中北部学院和德克萨斯州未来教育家协会（TAFE）合作，解决德克萨斯州K-12 STEM教师的需求。该项目将改善对STEM感兴趣的学生的招聘，并加强MSU科学数学学院（COSM），MSU戈登T。&埃伦·韦斯特教育学院（WCOE），地区高中和合作的两年制学院。具体而言，该项目将评估STEM中学教师认证的兴趣和感知挑战，加强本科STEM学生的招聘和咨询材料，并通过当地TAFE分会与高中建立正式关系。 该项目将通过广泛的数据收集和分析多个群体（高中生，两年制大学生，MSU STEM专业，现任副教授和在职教师）的知识库，以了解在追求中等STEM教育事业的兴趣和障碍。这项研究的数据将有助于STEM教师教育计划，因为他们努力解决教师短缺问题。该项目还将评估通过链接课程的学习社区模式加强教育教师和STEM教师之间关系的创新战略。此外，更好地了解衔接协议和学位完成计划的成功和影响，将有助于改善大学和两年制学院之间的重要关系。