Recruiting, Preparing, and Retaining STEM Educators to Serve in High-Need Schools in Central Louisiana

招募、准备和留住 STEM 教育工作者为路易斯安那州中部的高需求学校服务

• 批准号: 2049992
• 负责人: Gerard Dumancas
• 金额: $ 120万
• 依托单位: Louisiana State University at Alexandria
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-04-01 至 2022-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2049992&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Recruiting; Preparing; Retaining; STEM; Educators

This project aims to serve the national need for highly effective STEM teachers. To do so, it will recruit undergraduate STEM majors to complete STEM degrees and obtain a secondary teacher certification. These STEM undergraduates will receive scholarships and other supports designed to enrich their STEM knowledge, as well as their teaching knowledge and skills. To expand their STEM content knowledge, the Noyce Scholars will have the opportunity to participate in collaborative mentor-scholar projects, summer computational workshops, and a chemometrics course. They will also benefit from faculty mentorships that include opportunities to reflect on their academic and career pursuits. Monthly workshops will include sessions related to interpersonal skill development, such as grit, and cultural and linguistic competence. Such skills are important for effective teaching in high-need school districts. The project expects these undergraduate Noyce Scholars will gain the knowledge, skills, and perspectives needed to help students in Central Louisiana high-need secondary schools learn mathematics and science. This project at Louisiana State University at Alexandria includes partnerships with seven high-need school districts (Allen, Avoyelles, Concordia, Evangeline, Grant, LaSalle, and Rapides Parish School Districts) and Central Louisiana Technical Community College. There are three specific projects goals. The first is to recruit, prepare, and graduate 21 qualified undergraduate biology, chemistry, and mathematics majors for secondary education certification over the five-year grant period. The second goal is to provide professional support for the long-term success of these STEM educators. The final goal is to place and retain a high percentage (90%) of these Scholars in teaching positions in high-need school districts upon graduation as they complete their teaching service requirement of two years of teaching for each one year of scholarship support. The project is based on a theoretical framing that proposes evidence-based and innovative strategies are needed to ensure the preparation of highly effective STEM teachers for service in high-need schools. The project expects to generate new knowledge about pathways that support Scholar success and strategies to increase interest of STEM undergraduates in pursuing teaching careers in high-need schools. A robust project assessment process, led by an independent evaluator, is intended to identify aspects of the program that are most effective in STEM teacher recruitment, retention, and preparation. The project intends to use results from this evaluation to improve the teacher education program and will disseminate the results locally and nationally via publications and presentations. This Track 1: Scholarships and Stipends Noyce project is supported through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program. The Noyce program supports talented STEM undergraduate majors and professionals 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 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对高效STEM教师的需求。为此，它将招收STEM专业的本科生完成STEM学位并获得中级教师资格证书。这些STEM本科生将获得奖学金和其他支持，旨在丰富他们的STEM知识以及他们的教学知识和技能。为了扩展他们的STEM内容知识，Noyce学者将有机会参加合作的导师-学者项目、暑期计算研讨会和化学计量学课程。他们还将受益于教师指导，其中包括反思他们的学术和职业追求的机会。每月的研讨会将包括与人际技能发展有关的课程，如毅力、文化和语言能力。这些技能对于高需求学区的有效教学非常重要。该项目预计这些本科生诺伊斯学者将获得帮助路易斯安那州中部高需求中学的学生学习数学和科学所需的知识、技能和观点。路易斯安那州立大学亚历山大分校的这个项目包括与七个高需求学区(艾伦、阿沃耶尔、康科迪亚、伊万杰琳、格兰特、拉萨勒和拉皮德斯教区学区)和路易斯安那州中部技术社区学院的合作伙伴关系。有三个具体的项目目标。一是在五年资助期内，招收、准备和毕业21名符合条件的本科生物、化学和数学专业的中等教育认证学生。第二个目标是为这些STEM教育者的长期成功提供专业支持。最终目标是，这些奖学金获得者毕业后，在完成每一年奖学金资助两年教学的教学服务要求后，将高比例(90%)安置并保留在高需求学区的教学岗位上。该项目以理论框架为基础，提出了以证据为基础的创新战略，以确保为高需求学校服务的高效STEM教师做好准备。该项目预计将产生关于支持学者成功的途径和战略的新知识，以提高STEM本科生在高需求学校从事教学工作的兴趣。由独立评估员领导的强大的项目评估过程旨在确定该计划在STEM教师招聘、保留和准备方面最有效的方面。该项目打算利用这次评估的结果来改进教师教育计划，并将通过出版物和演示文稿在当地和全国范围内传播结果。这一轨道1：奖学金和津贴诺伊斯项目是由罗伯特诺伊斯教师奖学金计划支持的。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，并支持有经验的、模范的K-12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。