SaTC: EDU: Preparing cybersecurity advanced professionals for teaching next generation of cybersecurity workforce

“为下一代网络安全学生（CyberTeach）教学准备网络安全高级专业人员”项目将准备30名经验丰富的网络安全专业人员，目前正在攻读网络安全博士课程，成为高中（双招生），社区学院和4年制大学水平的有效教育者。目前，网络安全教育工作者短缺，网络安全学术工作的申请人数远远超过申请人数。只有20%的传统网络安全博士生选择学术界，大多数人去了私营部门，因此有必要采取不同的方法。该项目旨在消除网络安全专业人员进入学术界的一些障碍。证据，特别是在STEM领域，表明更好的教育原则和实践知识，导致更好的教学。这一项目的结果应该是更多和更多样化的教育工作者，包括女性，具有丰富的网络安全经验，他们可以提供更好的网络安全教育，以解决目前网络安全劳动力短缺的问题。课程和项目评估结果将广泛传播，供各种社区学院和四年制院校应用。该项目为目前就读于网络安全终端学位课程的高级网络安全专业人员开发了一个认证计划，以扩展他们在创新教学策略，让学生参与课堂，通过不同策略评估学生学习，将学生研究纳入课程以及为劳动力做准备等领域的技能。博士生学习如何根据教育领域背后的科学从教育专业人士那里教学，并以结构化的方式将他们的网络安全知识应用于不同的学生。博士生在各种机构的一个或两个指导教学学期的任务中实践他们所学的知识。 教育和网络安全教师评估整个指定课程的教学效果，并提供从课程开发到评估的指导。这些课程的结果进行评估对其他课程教授的博士生谁没有通过认证程序。 该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

The "Preparing Cybersecurity Advanced Professionals for Teaching Next Generation of Cybersecurity students (CyberTeach)" project will prepare 30 experienced cybersecurity professionals, currently enrolled in a doctoral program in cybersecurity, to become effective educators at the high school (dual-enrollment), community college, and 4-year university levels. There is currently a shortage of cybersecurity educators and academic jobs in cybersecurity vastly outnumber applicants. Only 20% of traditional cybersecurity PhD students are selecting academia, most going to the private sector, and so a different approach is necessary. This project is designed to remove some of the barriers for working cybersecurity professionals to enter academia. Evidence, particularly in the STEM field, indicates that stronger knowledge of education principles and practices, leads to better teaching. The result of this project should be additional and more diverse educators, including females, with extensive cybersecurity experience, who can offer better cybersecurity education to address the current shortage in the cybersecurity workforce. The curriculum and project assessment results will be widely disseminated for application at a variety of community colleges and 4-year institutions. The project develops a credentialing program for high-level cybersecurity professionals, currently enrolled in a cybersecurity terminal-degree program, to expand their skills in areas such as innovative teaching strategies, engaging students in the classroom, assessing student learning through different strategies, incorporating student research into a course, and preparing for the workforce. Doctoral students learn how to teach from educational professionals based on the science behind the education field and apply their cybersecurity knowledge in a structured manner to a diverse set of students. The doctoral students practice what they learn in one or two mentored teaching semester-long assignments at a variety of institutions. Education and cybersecurity faculty evaluate the effectiveness of the teaching throughout the designated courses and provide guidance from curriculum development to assessment. Results of these courses are evaluated against other courses taught by doctoral students who have not been through the credentialing program. Students are incentivized to participate in the credentialing program and to teach by tuition-reimbursement grants for their doctoral programs.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.