Collaborative Research: Community-Engaged Preparation of Highly Skilled, Equity-focused Secondary STEM Teachers

该项目旨在服务于为高需求学区培养高技能STEM教师的国家需求。该项目以一个拉美裔服务机构为中心，将与一所社区大学和一个高需求学区合作进行。该项目旨在支持24名诺伊斯学者完成STEM学位并获得二级教学认证。这一合作关系的核心是长达十年的共同承诺，通过强大的社区参与式教师培训计划，培养和留住具有文化能力的、第一天就准备好的中等STEM教育者。该项目旨在确保诺伊斯学者认识和理解他们将教授的学生。为此，该项目将聘请社区导师，与诺伊斯学者分享当地知识和文化意识。此外，该项目纳入了服务学习和自我效能建设的经验，重点是与不同社区建立关系。总体目标是培养注重公平的教师，他们将使用与文化相关的高效教学策略，提高学生在STEM中的学习、成功和归属感。该项目在德克萨斯农工大学语料库克里斯蒂包括与德尔玛学院、德克萨斯农工大学和西奥索学区的合作伙伴关系。它旨在招聘24名高素质、多样化的生物、化学、海洋和生命科学、数学和物理专业的学生，并支持他们成为具有文化能力的批判性思考者和高需求学区的有效STEM教育者。该项目旨在产生与项目活动如何发展未来教师的STEM自我效能、STEM兴趣以及对包容性教学和学习的看法的变化有关的新知识。该项目还试图确定支持和限制教师培训计划有效实施的机制、资源和政策，并创建一个可复制的模式，可以在其他拥有类似资源和挑战的机构复制。该项目的成果将通过专题介绍和学术出版物进行传播。这个Track 1：奖学金和津贴项目由罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划(Noyce)提供支持。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，并支持经验丰富、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 STEM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。

This project aims to serve the national need of preparing highly skilled STEM teachers for high-need school districts. The project is centered at a Hispanic-Serving Institution and will be conducted in partnership with a community college and a high-need school district. The project aims to support 24 Noyce Scholars as they complete STEM degrees and gain secondary teaching certification. At the heart of this partnership is a decade-long mutual commitment to develop and retain culturally competent, day-one-ready secondary STEM educators through a strong community-engaged teacher preparation program. The project seeks to ensure that Noyce Scholars will know and understand the students they will teach. To this end, the project will engage community mentors to share local knowledge and cultural awareness with the Noyce Scholars. In addition, the project incorporates service-learning and self-efficacy-building experiences, with an emphasis on relationship-building with a diverse community. The overall goal is to prepare equity-focused teachers who will use culturally relevant, highly effective teaching strategies that increase student learning, success, and sense of belonging in STEM.This project at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi includes a partnership with Del Mar College, Texas A&M University, and West Oso School District. It seeks to recruit 24 highly qualified, diverse biology, chemistry, marine and life sciences, mathematics, and physics majors and support them to become culturally competent critical thinkers and effective STEM educators in high-need school districts. The project intends to generate new knowledge related to how project activities develop future teachers’ STEM self-efficacy, STEM interest, and changes in perception of inclusive teaching and learning. The project also seeks to identify mechanisms, resources, and policies that support and constrain effective implementation of the teacher preparation program and to create a replicable model that can be replicated at other institutions with similar resources and challenges. Outcomes from this project will be disseminated through presentations and scholarly publications. 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.