Building Capacity for the Engineers to Teachers Program

威斯康星大学普拉特维尔分校的工程师到教师 (E2Teach) 项目将利用罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划的能力建设资金，直接满足全国高需求农村学区对更多 STEM 教师的需求。该项目团队将在威斯康星大学普拉特维尔分校设立应用物理专业，并创建一个工程师到教师 (E2Teach) 计划，其中包括从本科工程学位到适销对路的 STEM 教学学位的路径（称为“出口匝道”）。这些出口匝道将为模范 STEM 专业做好准备，让他们成为高需求地区的高素质 STEM 教师，将高年级工程课程的实践和数学严谨的经验带入高中课堂。从这些课程毕业的学生将非常有市场，因为他们将获得数学或物理认证，学区对这两个领域的合格教师的供应表示担忧。威斯康星大学普拉特维尔分校将在该能力建设项目中与西南威斯康星技术学院和西部技术学院建立合作伙伴关系。该项目的目标是在威斯康辛大学普拉特维尔分校成功实施诺伊斯奖学金计划 (E2Teach)，以满足高需求和服务不足的农村地区对 STEM 教师日益增长的需求。因此，项目团队将征求三方成员和利益相关者的意见；对三州地区（威斯康星州、伊利诺伊州和爱荷华州）对 STEM 教师的需求进行全面评估；检查和简化课程，为工程专业学生创造进入 STEM 教育学位的可行途径，并尽可能与工程学位重叠；设计和营销 E2Teach 程序。

The Engineers to Teachers (E2Teach) project at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville will use Capacity Building funds from the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program to directly address the national need for more STEM teachers in high-need rural school districts. The project team will establish an Applied Physics major at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and create an Engineers to Teachers (E2Teach) program with pathways, known as off-ramps, from undergraduate engineering degrees to marketable STEM teaching degrees. These off-ramps will prepare exemplary STEM majors to become highly qualified STEM teachers in high need districts who bring the hands-on, mathematically rigorous experience of upper-division engineering courses to the high school classroom. Students graduating from these programs will be highly marketable given that they will receive mathematics or physics certification, both areas for which school districts have expressed concerns about the supply of qualified teachers. The University of Wisconsin-Platteville will establish a partnership with Southwest Wisconsin Technical College and Western Technical College in this Capacity Building project. The goal of the project will be to implement a successful Noyce Scholarship program (E2Teach) at UW-Platteville to meet the significant and growing need for STEM teachers in high-need and underserved rural districts. As such, the project team will solicit input from constituents and stakeholders; conduct a comprehensive assessment of the demand for STEM teachers in the Tri-State region (Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa); examine and streamline curricula to create accessible pathways for engineering students into STEM education degrees with as much overlap with engineering degrees as possible; and design and market the E2Teach program.