Building Capacity to Close the Loop: From High School STEM Student to High School STEM Teacher

该项目旨在满足国家招聘、培养和支持合格STEM教师的能力建设需求，并关注增加合格少数民族STEM教师的数量。考虑到合格的少数民族STEM教师的短缺，K-12学生人口统计数据的变化，以及教师与他们所教学生的人口统计数据相似的积极影响，这个问题很重要。该项目旨在创建一条途径，通过培养将在他们毕业的同一所或类似高中任教的STEM教师，关闭从高中STEM学生到高中STEM教师的循环。它还包括收集基线数据的计划，以确定招聘STEM专业成为STEM教师的需求，兴趣和能力。该项目的预期成果是：（1）计划从合作的大学早期高中招收学生;（2）通过学习社区为这些学生做好准备的模式;以及（3）计划制定一个全面的方案，以支持这些学生返回高中任教。预计这项工作将建立一个可复制的模式内合作的高需求的教育机构。这个项目在草原视图A M大学，一个历史上的黑人大学，包括与奥尔丁独立学区，休斯顿独立学区，皇家独立学区，和谢尔顿独立学区的合作伙伴关系。项目目标包括：（1）制定以证据为基础的创新战略，以招募，准备和支持来自高需求的当地教育机构的候选人与现有的早期大学高中，以增加德克萨斯州STEM教师库的多样性;和（2）提高对招聘、准备、并通过一所历史悠久的黑人大学的学习社区，为高需求教育机构的新STEM教师提供支持。 该项目有可能通过建立必要的基础设施来实施未来的Noyce Track 1提案，以鼓励代表性不足的少数群体充分参与STEM，从而造福社会。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。

This project aims to serve the national need of building capacity to recruit, prepare, and support certified STEM teachers, with attention to increasing the number of certified minority STEM teachers. This problem is important given the existing shortage of qualified minority STEM teachers, the changing demographics of the K-12 student population, and the positive impacts of teachers’ with similar demographics as the students they teach. The project intends to create a pathway to close the loop from high school STEM students to high school STEM teachers, by preparing STEM teachers who will teach in the same or a similar high school from which they graduated. It also includes plans for collecting baseline data to determine need, interest, and capacity for recruiting STEM majors to become STEM teachers. The expected outcomes of the project are: (1) a plan to recruit students from partnering Early College High Schools; (2) a model for preparing these students via learning communities; and (3) a plan for a comprehensive program to support this students as they return to teach in their high schools. It is expected this work will establish a replicable model within the partnering high-need educational agencies.This project at Prairie View A&M University, a Historically Black University, includes partnerships with Aldine Independent School District, Houston Independent School District, Royal Independent School District, and Sheldon Independent School District. Project goals include: (1) developing evidence-based, innovative strategies to recruit, prepare, and support candidates from high-need local educational agencies with existing Early College High Schools to increase the diversity of the pool of STEM teachers in Texas; and (2) advancing knowledge and understanding of models and strategies for recruiting, preparing, and supporting new STEM teachers in high-need educational agencies through learning communities at a historically black university. The project has the potential to benefit society by establishing the necessary infrastructure for implementing a future Noyce Track 1 proposal to encourage the full participation of underrepresented minority groups in STEM. 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.