Blazing the Trail for STEM Teachers: A Noyce Capacity Building Project

“为STEM教师开辟道路：诺伊斯能力建设项目”旨在解决新罕布什尔州曼彻斯特高需求学区对合格STEM教师的需求。该项目团队的长期目标是在圣安瑟伦学院（SAC）创建一个全面的计划，该计划将招募，准备和支持更多的STEM专业人员，他们擅长在高需求的城市学校教学。这一目标与解决曼彻斯特和整个新罕布什尔州合格的中学STEM教师严重短缺的问题有关。在这个项目中，PI和Co-PI将与SAC社区的其他成员合作，以确定创新的长达一个学期的课后教学经验是否能有效地招募SAC STEM专业的学生攻读教育联合学位。该项目将为未来的诺伊斯教师奖学金和津贴（轨道1）提案奠定基础，该项目有三个主要目标：（1）衡量STEM专业学生对STEM教学作为一种职业的兴趣;（2）改善STEM学生和教师对教学职业的看法;（3）增加STEM学生攻读联合教育学位和STEM学科学位的人数。该项目将由两个相互关联的目标驱动：（1）确定一个学期的课后教学经验是否可以吸引STEM专业考虑从事教学工作;（2）确定目前对STEM教育兴趣不高的根本原因，以便设计干预措施。研究方法包括通过STEM职业兴趣调查（STEM-CIS）评估所有第一年SAC STEM专业的学生对STEM专业的兴趣。对城市学校和学生的态度将通过前/后问卷调查和离职面谈来衡量。整个校园对STEM教育的兴趣将通过项目团队开发的一项调查来衡量，即“STEM教师对教学作为职业的态度调查”。“这个项目将扩大诺伊斯的投资组合，增加了一个小型的，城市的，文科大学的观点，并通过影响曼彻斯特，新罕布什尔州，一个社区与大量的难民人口。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。

The "Blazing the Trail for STEM Teachers: A Noyce Capacity Building Project" aims to address the demand for qualified STEM teachers in the high-need school district of Manchester, New Hampshire. The long-term goal of the project team is to create a comprehensive program at Saint Anselm College (SAC) that will recruit, prepare, and support an increased number of STEM majors skilled at teaching in high-needs urban schools. This goal is relevant to resolving the critical shortage of qualified secondary STEM teachers in Manchester and across New Hampshire. In this project, the PI and Co-PI will work with other members of the SAC community to determine whether an innovative semester-long after-school teaching experience is effective for recruiting SAC STEM majors to pursue a joint degree in education. This project will lay the foundation for a future Noyce Teacher Scholarships and Stipends (Track 1) proposal.The project has three primary goals: (1) gauge the interest of STEM majors in STEM teaching as a profession; (2) improve the perception of STEM students and faculty regarding a teaching career; and (3) increase the number of STEM students pursuing a joint education degree and a degree in a STEM discipline. The project will be driven by two interrelated objectives: (1) determine whether a semester-long after-school teaching experience can attract STEM majors to consider a career in teaching; and (2) identify the root cause(s) of the current low interest in STEM education, so that interventions can be designed. Research approaches include assessment of STEM major interest via the STEM Career Interest Survey (STEM-CIS) taken by all first year SAC STEM majors. Attitudes about urban schools and students will be measured with a pre-/post-questionnaire and an exit interview. The interest in STEM education across campus will be measured with a survey developed by the project team, the "STEM Faculty Attitudes about Teaching as a Career Survey." This project will expand the Noyce portfolio by adding the perspective of a small, urban, liberal-arts college and by impacting Manchester, NH, a community with a large refugee population.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.