Building Capacity for a STEM Learning Network to Prepare Highly Effective STEM Teachers for Teaching in High-Need Schools

该项目旨在满足国家对高效率的STEM K-12教师的需求，这些教师接受了文化和语言响应的教学方法的培训。为此，它将帮助马里兰州洛约拉大学为其STEM教育项目招收本科生和专业人员建立基础设施。该项目还将为这些学生在巴尔的摩地区高需求学区任教奠定基础。该项目小组打算建立一个职前和在职教师的学习社区，以及改善学术和专业咨询，并开发在各种高需求的学术环境中早期教学的机会。长期目标是制定和实施成功的战略，以招聘和留住STEM专业和教师专业人员。马里兰州洛约拉大学的这一能力建设项目包括其教育学院和国家与应用科学部门的教职员工之间的合作伙伴关系，以及来自巴尔的摩县公立学校的代表，巴尔的摩县公立学校是当地一家高度需要的教育机构。项目目标包括：1)开发、测试和收集STEM教育招聘和保留战略的基线数据；2)为教师提供专业发展，以测试、传播和整合STEM和STEM教育课程中的积极学习创新；以及3)发展STEM网络协作，以加强与巴尔的摩县公立学校的关系，并探索缩小学生和教师多样性差距的策略。从这项工作中获得的发现和经验教训旨在为更大的小型、主要是本科的文科机构提供信息，这些机构培训未来的STEM教育工作者。从长远来看，这一能力建设项目有可能有助于培养一支多样化、经验丰富的STEM教师队伍，这反过来将有助于提高K-12学生的学业成绩和STEM技能，为大学成功做好准备。该能力建设项目由罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划(NOYCE)提供支持。Noyce计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人员成为有效的K-12 STEM教师，并支持经验丰富、模范的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、保留率和有效性的研究。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。

This project aims to serve the national need for highly effective STEM K-12 teachers trained in culturally and linguistically responsive teaching approaches. To do so, it will help Loyola University Maryland build infrastructure for recruitment of undergraduates and professionals into its STEM education programs. The project will also lay the foundation for preparing these students to teach in high-need school districts in the Baltimore region. The project team intends to develop a learning community of pre-service and in-service teachers, as well as improve academic and professional advising and develop opportunities for early teaching exposure in diverse, high-need academic settings. The long-term goal is to develop and implement successful strategies to recruit and retain STEM majors and professionals in the teaching profession.This Capacity Building project at Loyola University Maryland includes partnerships among faculty in its School of Education and National and Applied Sciences division, as well as representatives from Baltimore County Public Schools, a high-need local education agency. Project goals include the following: 1) develop, test, and collect baseline data about STEM-education recruitment and retention strategies; 2) provide faculty with professional development to test, disseminate, and integrate active learning innovations in STEM and STEM-education courses; and 3) Develop a STEM-Network collaborative to strengthen the relationship with Baltimore County Public schools and to explore strategies to close the student-teacher diversity gap. Findings and lessons learned from this work are intended to provide information to the larger community of small, primarily undergraduate, liberal arts institutions that train future STEM educators. In the long-term, this Capacity Building project has the potential to contribute to developnent of a diverse, experienced STEM teacher workforce, which in turn would support improvement of K-12 student academic achievement and STEM skills readiness for college success. 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.