Recruiting and Retaining STEM Teachers through Community, Mentoring, and Industry Experiences

通过社区、辅导和行业经验招聘和留住 STEM 教师

• 批准号: 2050515
• 负责人: Randall Griffus
• 金额: $ 119.98万
• 依托单位: Dalton State College
• 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: 2021-05-15 至 2026-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2050515&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Recruiting; Retaining; STEM; Teachers; through

The project aims to serve the national need of recruiting, preparing, and retaining highly effective STEM teachers who understand the lives of the children they teach. The project will provide STEM undergraduate students with opportunities to work with K-12 students on STEM projects. This experience is expected to help many of the undergraduates decide to pursue STEM teaching as a career. Once these STEM undergraduate students are on a path to become high school STEM teachers, they will be immersed in additional community and industry experiences, such as summer science camps. By combining these experiences with field experiences in schools, the project aims to build a network of STEM, industry, and education mentors. The mentors will be positioned to guide the prospective STEM teachers through their preparation for teaching and their introductory years as STEM teachers. With a strong network of support and a deep understanding of the community in which they teach, it is expected that these new teachers will be retained in high-need schools, thus potentially reducing teacher shortages in STEM fields. This project at Dalton State College, a Hispanic-Serving Institution, includes partnerships with two local high-need school districts (Whitfield County and Dalton Public Schools) and Shaw and Mohawk Industries, two of the world’s largest floorcovering manufacturers with a combined total of more than 63,000 employees and $14 billion in annual sales. The project goal is to recruit and prepare 22 new biology, math, and chemistry secondary teachers by recruiting undergraduate STEM majors into teaching careers. The project's prospective teachers will be matched with a selected cadre of STEM teachers who will serve as mentors. While working at STEM community events, the prospective teachers will have an opportunity to develop an understanding of the contexts of K-12 students’ lives. Through STEM industry externships, the prospective teachers will learn how to connect local STEM jobs to the STEM content they are teaching and will broaden their network of STEM mentors. Through focus group interviews with stakeholders, surveys, and analysis of observational data, the scientific and education communities will develop an understanding of the impact of mentoring, community engagement, and industry immersion on the preparation and retention of STEM teachers. Increasing teacher's knowledge about the community in which they serve will be the most important broader impact of this work. The network that has been created between teachers and industry has potential to help change the perceptions of advanced manufacturing careers, a focus of the community. Prospective teachers will share their industry experiences at community organizations, which may increase the sustainability of the program beyond the life of the project. 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.

该项目旨在满足国家招聘，准备和保留高效STEM教师的需求，这些教师了解他们所教儿童的生活。该项目将为STEM本科生提供与K-12学生一起进行STEM项目的机会。 这种经验预计将帮助许多本科生决定追求干教学作为一种职业。一旦这些STEM本科生走上成为高中STEM教师的道路，他们将沉浸在额外的社区和行业经验中，例如暑期科学夏令营。通过将这些经验与学校的实地经验相结合，该项目旨在建立一个STEM、行业和教育导师网络。导师将被定位为指导未来的STEM教师通过他们的教学准备和他们的入门年作为STEM教师。凭借强大的支持网络和对他们任教社区的深入了解，预计这些新教师将被保留在高需求的学校，从而有可能减少STEM领域的教师短缺。 这个项目在道尔顿州立学院，一个西班牙裔服务机构，包括与当地两个高需求学区（惠特菲尔德县和道尔顿公立学校）和肖和莫霍克工业，两个世界上最大的地板制造商，总员工超过63,000人，年销售额140亿美元的合作伙伴关系。 该项目的目标是通过招募本科STEM专业的学生进入教学生涯，招募和准备22名新的生物，数学和化学中学教师。该项目的未来教师将与选定的STEM教师骨干相匹配，他们将担任导师。在STEM社区活动中工作时，未来的教师将有机会了解K-12学生的生活背景。通过STEM行业实习，未来的教师将学习如何将当地的STEM工作与他们教授的STEM内容联系起来，并扩大他们的STEM导师网络。通过与利益相关者的焦点小组访谈，调查和观察数据分析，科学和教育界将了解辅导，社区参与和行业沉浸对STEM教师的准备和保留的影响。增加教师对他们所服务的社区的了解将是这项工作最重要的广泛影响。教师和行业之间建立的网络有可能帮助改变对先进制造业职业的看法，这是社区的一个焦点。未来的教师将在社区组织分享他们的行业经验，这可能会增加项目生命周期之外的项目的可持续性。 这个轨道1：奖学金和津贴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。