Building Capacity for a Preservice STEM Teacher Pipeline in Hawaii

夏威夷职前 STEM 教师队伍能力建设

• 批准号: 1950295
• 负责人: Debra Nakama
• 金额: $ 6.22万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 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: 2020-05-15 至 2022-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1950295&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Capacity; Preservice; STEM; Teacher

This project aims to serve the national need of preparing high-quality teachers for high-need school districts in Hawaii. As demonstrated by data provided by the State of Hawaii Department of Education, Hawaii has a strong need for qualified STEM teachers. This project intends to build capacity for developing a teaching certification program that will prepare participants to serve in island-based, rural, high-need school districts. Specifically, it aims to develop a new community college preservice teacher education program for STEM professionals wishing to change careers, as well as to promote transfer of community college STEM majors into an existing university-based preservice teacher education program. The project also focuses on building capacity for future recruitment and retention that will allow successful statewide alliances to be scaled up for broader impact.This project at University of Hawaii Maui College includes partnerships with the Hawaii State Department of Education, the University of Hawaii at Manoa - College of Education, the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, and community experts. The overall goal of the project is to create a community college preservice teacher education program that will increase the number of K-12 teachers by serving career-changing STEM professionals and promoting transfer of STEM undergraduates into a university-based teacher education program. These new K-12 teachers will be prepared to serve in high-need schools in which a majority of the students are Native Hawaiian, Filipino, or other underrepresented minorities. The project intends to convene collaborators at two Maui Noyce Summits to explore with major stakeholders the gaps in the Maui STEM-teacher pipeline and to seek their assistance in preparing a broad and diverse STEM K-12 teacher pool for high-need schools. The project also seeks to establish baselines of performance metrics that could be used to monitor the effectiveness and efficiency of filling the STEM teaching gap areas and for scaling up recruitment and retention of Native Hawaiians, Filipinos, and other underrepresented minorities. The project draws from the Grown-Your-Own program’s theory that proposes to build a pool of teacher candidates from the school community. These teachers will be more likely to reflect the racial, ethnic, and economic characteristics of the students, and will be more likely to stay in the district for a longer period of time. This theory is supported by research demonstrating that teachers often prefer to teach in geographic locations that are similar to the places where they grew up and where they share similar backgrounds as the students. This Capacity Building project is supported through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce). The Noyce program supports talented STEM undergraduate majors and professional to become effective K-12 STEM teachers and experienced, exemplary K-12 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为夏威夷高需求学区培养高质量教师的需要。正如夏威夷州教育部提供的数据所表明的那样，夏威夷对合格的STEM教师有着强烈的需求。 该项目旨在建设制定教学认证方案的能力，使参与者为在岛屿、农村、高需求学区服务做好准备。 具体而言，它旨在为希望改变职业的STEM专业人员开发一个新的社区学院副教师教育计划，并促进社区学院STEM专业转移到现有的大学副教师教育计划中。 该项目还侧重于培养未来招聘和保留的能力，这将使成功的全州联盟扩大规模，产生更广泛的影响。夏威夷毛伊岛大学的这个项目包括与夏威夷州教育部、夏威夷大学马诺阿分校教育学院、夏威夷土地和自然资源部以及社区专家的合作。该项目的总体目标是创建一个社区学院副教师教育计划，通过为职业转变的STEM专业人员提供服务，并促进STEM本科生转入大学教师教育计划，增加K-12教师的数量。 这些新的K-12教师将准备在高需求的学校服务，其中大多数学生是夏威夷土著人，菲律宾人或其他代表性不足的少数民族。该项目打算在两次毛伊岛诺伊斯峰会上召集合作者，与主要利益相关者探讨毛伊岛STEM教师管道中的差距，并寻求他们的帮助，为高需求的学校准备一个广泛而多样化的STEM K-12教师库。 该项目还寻求建立绩效指标基线，可用于监测填补STEM教学差距领域的有效性和效率，并扩大夏威夷原住民、菲律宾人和其他代表性不足的少数族裔的招聘和保留。该项目借鉴了“自己成长”计划的理论，该计划提出从学校社区建立一个教师候选人库。 这些教师将更有可能反映学生的种族，民族和经济特征，并将更有可能在该地区停留更长的时间。研究表明，教师通常更喜欢在与他们长大的地方相似且与学生有相似背景的地理位置教学，这一理论得到了研究的支持。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本科专业和专业人员成为有效的K-12 STEM教师，并支持经验丰富的模范K-12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。