A Collaborative Regional Alliance to Prepare STEM Secondary Teachers for Service in Rural, High-Need Schools and School Districts

一个区域合作联盟，培养 STEM 中学教师，为农村、高需求学校和学区服务

• 批准号: 2050336
• 负责人: Corin Slown
• 金额: $ 144.48万
• 依托单位: University Corporation at Monterey Bay
• 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: 2021-03-01 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2050336&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Regional; Alliance; Prepare; STEM

This project aims to serve the national need of preparing qualified and innovative STEM teachers among a rural population that has been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Transforming the early experiences of future teachers can help to ensure the Nation has qualified STEM educators capable of inspiring and preparing the future STEM workforce. The project intends to do so by recruiting, preparing, and supporting a diverse group of undergraduate STEM majors to become highly skilled STEM secondary teachers. These future teachers will include community college students and lower division students who represent the region's demographic diversity. The project intends to prepare these students to serve as highly qualified middle and high school STEM teachers in rural, high-need schools and school districts. To recruit, prepare, and support these STEM students, project partners will coordinate two teacher preparation pathways that emphasize early STEM research and inquiry experiences.This project at California State University Monterey Bay, a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) will leverage a regional alliance between three other post-secondary HSIs (Cabrillo College, Hartnell College, and Monterey Peninsula College) and the County Office of Education, representing 24 school districts in California's Central Coast region. Responding to consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the project will provide future teachers with online instruction and prepare them to be skilled online and in-person teachers. For example, it will help future STEM teachers develop their capacity to facilitate STEM inquiry in ways that integrate digital citizenship and technology. It aims to recruit, support, and prepare 30 new STEM teachers who will be recruited from undergraduate STEM majors (including biology, computer science, environmental science, marine science, mathematics, or statistics) at California State University Monterey Bay and partnering community colleges. The students will receive scholarship support for their senior year and post-baccalaureate STEM teacher credentialing year. In addition, mid-career STEM professionals will be recruited and receive stipend support to complete the one-year post-baccalaureate STEM teacher credentialing program. The Next Generation Science Standards Regional Collaborative Teacher Network coordinated by the County Office of Education will provide the prospective teachers with access to an early, inclusive STEM community of practice of current in-service teachers who are implementing best practices for STEM instruction and student learning. Early STEM inquiry, teaching, and mentored research opportunities will integrate active learning and culturally responsive pedagogy to build early social capital and create a diverse STEM teacher community. Project outcomes have potential to provide a model for the California Community College system (115 colleges) and California State University system (23 universities) to broaden the applicant pool of highly qualified STEM teachers. Dissemination of the model and strategies will help to address short- and long-term teacher shortages through an expanded STEM teacher preparation pipeline. Qualified and innovative STEM teachers in rural districts will have critical roles in developing the STEM workforce to meet emerging critical needs. This Track 1: Scholarships and Stipends 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 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.

该项目旨在满足受COVID-19大流行严重影响的农村人口培养合格和创新的STEM教师的需求。改变未来教师的早期经历有助于确保国家拥有合格的STEM教育工作者，能够激励和培养未来的STEM劳动力。该项目打算通过招聘、准备和支持不同群体的STEM本科专业学生成为高技能的STEM中学教师来实现这一目标。这些未来的教师将包括社区大学学生和低年级学生，他们代表了该地区的人口多样性。该项目旨在培养这些学生成为农村、高需求学校和学区的高素质初中和高中STEM教师。为了招募、培养和支持这些STEM学生，项目合作伙伴将协调两种教师培训途径，强调早期STEM研究和探究经验。加州州立大学蒙特利湾分校是一所西班牙裔服务机构（HSI），该项目将利用其他三所高等教育机构（卡布里洛学院、哈特内尔学院和蒙特利半岛学院）和县教育办公室之间的区域联盟，代表加州中央海岸地区的24个学区。为应对2019冠状病毒病大流行的后果，该项目将为未来的教师提供在线指导，使他们成为熟练的在线和面对面教师。例如，它将帮助未来的STEM教师发展他们的能力，以整合数字公民和技术的方式促进STEM探究。该项目旨在招募、支持和培养30名新的STEM教师，这些教师将从加州州立大学蒙特利湾分校和合作社区学院的本科STEM专业（包括生物学、计算机科学、环境科学、海洋科学、数学或统计学）中招聘。这些学生将在他们的高年级和学士后的STEM教师资格认证年度获得奖学金支持。此外，将招募处于职业生涯中期的STEM专业人员，并获得津贴支持，以完成为期一年的学士学位后STEM教师资格认证计划。由县教育办公室协调的下一代科学标准区域合作教师网络将为未来的教师提供一个早期的、包容性的STEM实践社区，目前在职教师正在实施STEM教学和学生学习的最佳实践。早期的STEM探究、教学和指导研究机会将整合主动学习和文化响应教学法，以建立早期社会资本，并创建多元化的STEM教师社区。项目成果有可能为加州社区学院系统（115所学院）和加州州立大学系统（23所大学）提供一个模式，以扩大高素质STEM教师的申请范围。该模型和策略的传播将有助于通过扩大STEM教师培训渠道解决短期和长期教师短缺问题。农村地区合格和创新的STEM教师将在发展STEM劳动力以满足新出现的关键需求方面发挥关键作用。本项目由Robert Noyce教师奖学金项目（Noyce）资助。Noyce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，并支持经验丰富的模范K-12教师成为高需求学区的STEM大师教师。它还支持对高需求学区K-12 STEM教师的持久性、留任性和有效性的研究。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。