Engaging Community Colleges in Recruitment of Secondary STEM Teachers Through Early Field Experiences

让社区大学通过早期实地经验招聘中学 STEM 教师

• 批准号: 1849029
• 负责人: Anisha Campbell
• 金额: $ 29.6万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-15 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1849029&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Engaging; Community; Colleges; Recruitment; Secondary

With support from the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Program: Education and Human Resources (IUSE: EHR), this project aims to serve the national interest by helping to increase the diversity and number of highly-qualified STEM teachers. It aims to do so by providing teaching experiences for community college students, to encourage them to consider a teaching career. The project is a collaborative effort between the University of Maryland-College Park, Montgomery Community College, and Prince George's Community College. The expected outcome is recruitment of a diverse pool of students who might not otherwise have considered becoming a STEM teacher, including undergraduates, career changers, and non-instructional teaching staff, such as teaching aides. The goal of this project is to research the effectiveness of using "Step 1," an early fieldwork course model developed through the UTeach program at the University of Texas at Austin. Step 1 is designed to generate excitement about STEM teaching as a career, increase awareness of STEM teaching as an option, and create seamless pathways (transfers) from community college coursework into university STEM teacher preparation programs. Data will be collected and analyzed from surveys and interviews of community college students. T-tests of two independent samples will be used to gauge whether the availability of the early fieldwork courses on community college campuses increases STEM student awareness of teaching as a career. The goal is to develop an "exportable" model so that other four-year colleges with STEM certification pathways will be able to partner with community colleges to recruit future teachers and foster diversity in STEM teaching. Reports and data analyses will be used to prepare conference presentations for organizations such as UTeach, the American Educational Research Association, the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, and the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Manuscripts will also be submitted for publication in peer-reviewed journal articles. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. This project is in the Institutional and Community Transformation track, which supports efforts to transform and improve STEM education across institutions of higher education and disciplinary communities.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.

在NSF改善本科生STEM教育计划：教育和人力资源(IUSE：EHR)的支持下，该项目旨在通过帮助增加高素质STEM教师的多样性和数量来服务于国家利益。它的目的是通过为社区大学的学生提供教学经验来做到这一点，鼓励他们考虑从教。该项目是马里兰大学学院公园分校、蒙哥马利社区学院和乔治王子社区学院共同努力的成果。预计的结果是，招聘一批本来可能不会考虑成为STEM教师的多样化学生，包括本科生、职业改革者和非教学人员，如助教。这个项目的目标是研究使用“第一步”的有效性，这是一种通过德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的UTeach项目开发的早期田野作业课程模式。第一步旨在激发人们对STEM教学作为一种职业的兴奋，提高作为一种选择的STEM教学的意识，并创建从社区大学课程到大学STEM教师培训计划的无缝通道(转移)。数据将从对社区大学生的调查和访谈中收集和分析。两个独立样本的t检验将被用来衡量社区大学校园早期田野作业课程的提供是否提高了STEM学生将教学作为职业的意识。其目标是开发一种“可输出”的模式，以便其他拥有STEM认证途径的四年制大学能够与社区大学合作，招聘未来的教师，并促进STEM教学的多样性。报告和数据分析将用于为UTeach、美国教育研究协会、数学教师教育工作者协会和美国教师教育学院协会等组织准备会议演示文稿。手稿也将提交发表在同行评议的期刊文章中。NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生的STEM教育的有效性。该项目处于机构和社区转型轨道，旨在支持在高等教育机构和学科社区中转变和改进STEM教育的努力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。