Striving to Advance Teacher Education in STEM

努力推进 STEM 教师教育

• 批准号: 1758468
• 负责人: Dana Franz
• 金额: $ 7.15万
• 依托单位: Mississippi State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-01 至 2020-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1758468&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Striving; Advance; Teacher; Education; STEM

This Noyce Capacity Building project at Mississippi State University (MSU) aims to build the knowledge, community, and partnerships needed to increase the number of students recruited into STEM teaching. It includes leadership of four MSU departments and the Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District, as well as mentoring by the principle investigator of the University of Kentucky's Track 1 Noyce program. The project is designed to analyze recruitment strategies, barriers to program retention, teacher candidates' demographics, and the characteristics of STEM teachers who have remained in STEM classrooms. By leveraging partnerships, the project seeks to broaden recruitment efforts, align positive teaching messages across Mississippi and university courses, and develop mentoring for undergraduate students from engineering, math, and sciences interested in becoming math and science teachers. The partnerships have the potential to enable the project team to reach and recruit a broader group of students to pursue STEM teacher education. Through research with in-service STEM teachers, including MSU alumni and other high-performing teachers, the project seeks to evaluate programmatic components that contribute to retention in the STEM teacher profession. This project aims to increase the number of students recruited into STEM teaching, develop a Noyce Track 1: Scholarships and Stipends proposal, and contribute to the literature on effective recruitment and retention of STEM education students. The project intends to gather essential information on the successes and challenges faced in Mississippi, such as recruiting students into STEM education, retaining these students in STEM teacher education programs, and strengthening the partnerships of key stakeholder in STEM education. It is a collaborative Capacity Building project between MSU's Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education, College of Education, College of Arts and Sciences, and Department of Computer Science and Engineering, as well as Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District. The project is designed to benefit from a mentoring relationship with the existing University of Kentucky's Noyce Track 1 Scholarship and Stipends project. Coupling this effort with that of the University of Kentucky may strengthen the program, so that more undergraduate STEM majors gain licensure to teach mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, and, computer science. This project will gather and analyze baseline data needed to understand how to foster recruitment and program retention that leads to STEM teacher certification, while enhancing existing partnerships to study policies, strategies, and programs for STEM education. New knowledge gained in Mississippi via this project may serve as a model for increasing STEM teacher education in southeastern universities, as well as in other universities across the nation.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.

密西西比州立大学（MSU）的Noyce能力建设项目旨在建立知识，社区和伙伴关系，以增加STEM教学所需的学生数量。 它包括四个密歇根州立大学部门和斯塔克维尔-奥克蒂贝哈综合学区的领导，以及肯塔基州大学第一轨道诺伊斯计划的主要调查员的指导。 该项目旨在分析招聘策略、保留项目的障碍、教师候选人的人口统计数据以及留在STEM教室的STEM教师的特征。通过利用合作伙伴关系，该项目旨在扩大招聘工作，在密西西比和大学课程中调整积极的教学信息，并为有兴趣成为数学和科学教师的工程，数学和科学专业的本科生提供指导。 这些伙伴关系有可能使项目团队能够接触和招募更广泛的学生群体，以追求STEM教师教育。通过对在职STEM教师（包括MSU校友和其他高绩效教师）的研究，该项目旨在评估有助于保留STEM教师职业的方案组成部分。该项目旨在增加STEM教学招收的学生人数，制定Noyce Track 1：奖学金和津贴提案，并为有效招募和保留STEM教育学生的文献做出贡献。该项目旨在收集有关密西西比成功和面临的挑战的重要信息，例如招募学生参加STEM教育，保留这些学生参加STEM教师教育计划，以及加强STEM教育关键利益相关者的伙伴关系。 这是MSU课程，教学和特殊教育，教育学院，艺术与科学学院，计算机科学与工程系以及斯塔克维尔-奥克蒂贝哈综合学区之间的合作能力建设项目。该项目的目的是受益于与现有的肯塔基州的诺伊斯轨道1奖学金和津贴项目大学的指导关系。将这一努力与肯塔基州大学的努力结合起来，可能会加强该项目，使更多的本科STEM专业获得教授数学、生物、化学、物理和计算机科学的许可。该项目将收集和分析所需的基线数据，以了解如何促进招聘和计划保留，从而获得STEM教师认证，同时加强现有的合作伙伴关系，以研究STEM教育的政策，战略和计划。通过该项目在密西西比获得的新知识可以作为东南部大学以及全国其他大学增加STEM教师教育的典范。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。