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

伊利诺伊州拉美裔服务机构培养 STEM 教师的能力建设

• 批准号: 1949848
• 负责人: Chetna Patel
• 金额: $ 7.49万
• 依托单位: Aurora University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-06-01 至 2021-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1949848&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Capacity; Produce; STEM; Teachers

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.

该项目旨在满足国家增加合格中学STEM教师数量的需求，包括高需求学区的西班牙裔STEM教师数量。增加西班牙裔学生在STEM中等教育专业的参与将有助于解决国家和地方对文化敏感的双语教师的需求。 这些教师还将作为榜样，帮助所有中学生设想自己在STEM教学生涯。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，以提高对STEM教学许可证作为职业道路的认识，并帮助确定帮助学生追求和获得许可证的机会。实施专业发展演讲者和教师研讨会文化相关的教学将有助于教师鼓励代表性不足的学生追求这条道路。预计这些活动将提高机构在中等STEM教育方案中招收和支持学生的能力，奥罗拉大学的这一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。项目目标是确定方法，将学生与STEM中学教育的职业联系起来，为来自地区高中和社区学院的STEM中学教师候选人建立强大的管道奠定基础，并为随后的罗伯特·诺伊斯轨道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教育许可证入学率，并允许高中教师在教育过程中更早地解决障碍，当许多学生正在形成职业观念时。对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，以衡量项目取得的成果、挑战和影响。该计划的结果将在项目网站上，校园活动和会议上传播到地区高中和大学，并将在年度NSF Noyce峰会以及区域和国家会议上展示。这个能力建设项目是通过罗伯特诺伊斯教师奖学金计划（诺伊斯）的支持。诺伊斯计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人士成为有效的K-12 STEM教师和经验丰富的模范K-12 STEM教师，成为高需求学区的STEM硕士教师。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。