Building Capacity to Produce STEM Teachers at a Hispanic Serving Institution in Illinois

该项目旨在满足国家增加合格中学STEM教师数量的需求，包括在高需求学区增加西班牙裔STEM教师的数量。增加拉美裔学生在STEM中等教育专业的参与，将有助于满足国家和地方对文化敏感的双语教师的需求。这些教师也将成为榜样，帮助所有中学生设想自己在STEM教学生涯中的前景。项目团队将为STEM专业的高中生和大学生开发和实施调查工具。从调查中收集的数据将用于制定有效的机制，以提高人们对STEM教学执照作为职业道路的认识，并帮助确定帮助学生追求和获得执照的机会。专业发展演讲者和教师研讨会的实施将有助于教师鼓励代表性不足的学生走上这条道路。这些活动预计将提高机构在中学STEM教育项目中招聘和支持学生的能力。奥罗拉大学的这个项目包括与东奥罗拉和西奥罗拉学区以及埃尔金社区学院的合作。项目目标是确定将学生与STEM中等教育职业联系起来的方法，为来自地区高中和社区大学的STEM中等教师候选人建立强大的管道奠定基础，并为随后的Robert Noyce Track I奖学金和津贴计划开发基础设施。可复制的调查和焦点小组工具将使其他机构能够适应和实施这些工具，以更好地增加自己的STEM教育执照入学率，并允许高中教师在许多学生形成职业观念的教育过程中尽早解决障碍。该项目的独立评估将包括焦点小组、访谈和文件审查，并结合项目活动的定量/直接数据来衡量已取得的成果、挑战和项目的影响。该计划的结果将在项目网站、校园活动和会议、地区高中和大学中传播，并将在年度NSF Noyce峰会以及地区和国家会议上发表。该能力建设项目由罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金项目（诺伊斯）支持。Noyce计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人士成为有效的K-12 STEM教师，并支持经验丰富的模范K-12 STEM教师成为高需求学区的STEM硕士教师。它还支持对高需求学区K-12 STEM教师的持久性、留任性和有效性的研究。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project aims to serve the national need to increase the number of qualified secondary STEM teachers, including the number of Hispanic STEM teachers in high-needs school districts. Increased participation of Hispanic students in STEM secondary education majors will help address the national and local need for culturally responsive, bilingual teachers. These teachers will also also serve as role models to help all secondary students envision themselves in STEM teaching careers. The project team will develop and implement survey instruments for high school and college students who are majoring in STEM. Data collected from the surveys will be used to develop effective mechanisms for increasing awareness of STEM teaching licensure as a career path and help to identify opportunities to help students pursuing and attaining licensure. The implementation of professional development speakers and faculty workshops on culturally relevant teaching will help faculty encourage underrepresented students to pursue this pathway. These activities are expected to increase institutional capacity for the recruitment and support of students in the secondary STEM education program.This project at Aurora University includes partnerships with the East Aurora and West Aurora School Districts and Elgin Community College. Project goals are to identify methods to connect students to careers in STEM secondary education, establish the foundation for a strong pipeline of STEM secondary teacher candidates from area high schools and community colleges, and to develop the infrastructure for a subsequent Robert Noyce Track I Scholarships and Stipends program. Replicable survey and focus group instruments will enable other institutions to adapt and implement these tools to better increase their own STEM education licensure enrollment and allow high school faculty to address barriers earlier in the education process, when many students are formulating career perceptions. An independent evaluation of this program will include focus groups, interviews, and document reviews combined with quantitative/direct data from program activities to measure achieved outcomes, challenges, and impact of the project. Results from this program will be disseminated on the project website, at campus events and meetings, to area high schools and colleges, and will be presented at the annual NSF Noyce Summit as well as at regional and national conferences. This Capacity Building project is supported through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce). The Noyce program supports talented STEM undergraduate majors and professionals to become effective K-12 STEM teachers and experienced, exemplary K-12 STEM teachers to become STEM master teachers in high-need school districts. It also supports research on the persistence, retention, and effectiveness of K-12 STEM teachers in high-need school districts.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.