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

该项目旨在满足全国为高需求学区准备高技能STEM教师的需求。该项目以一个西班牙裔服务机构为中心，将与一所社区学院和一个高需求学区合作开展。该项目旨在支持24名Noyce学者完成STEM学位并获得二级教学认证。这一伙伴关系的核心是一项为期十年的共同承诺，即通过强有力的社区参与的教师培训计划，培养和留住有文化能力的、第一天就准备好的中级STEM教育工作者。该项目旨在确保诺伊斯学者了解并理解他们将要教的学生。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，该项目还包括服务学习和自我效能建设经验，重点是与多元化社区建立关系。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。德克萨斯农工大学科珀斯克里斯蒂分校的这个项目包括与德尔玛学院、德克萨斯农工大学和西奥索学区的合作。它寻求招募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有效的STEM教育者。该项目旨在产生与项目活动如何培养未来教师的STEM自我效能感、STEM兴趣以及对包容性教学的看法变化相关的新知识。该项目还寻求确定支持和限制有效实施教师培训计划的机制、资源和政策，并创建一个可复制的模式，以便在其他拥有类似资源和面临类似挑战的机构中复制。该项目的成果将通过演讲和学术出版物进行传播。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。

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.