Developing a Program to Meet the Need for Prepared and Diverse STEM Teachers in Houston

制定计划以满足休斯顿对有准备的多元化 STEM 教师的需求

• 批准号: 2050669
• 负责人: Angelia Durand
• 金额: $ 12.24万
• 依托单位: Houston Baptist University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-03-01 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2050669&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Developing; Program; Meet; Need; Prepared

This project aims to serve the national need for increased numbers and diversity of highly qualified STEM teachers and educational leaders. Public schools face a shortage of STEM teachers, especially those with a STEM degree and who represent the diversity of the community they are serving. This shortage likely limits K-12 student STEM learning and may decrease their interest in pursuing further education in STEM. As a result, the lack of highly qualified STEM teachers can affect representation of underrepresented minorities in the STEM workforce. Houston Baptist University is a four-year undergraduate Hispanic-Serving Institution in Houston, Texas, one of the most diverse cities in the nation. The demographics of students at the University mirror those of the K-12 students in the Houston area. The project includes collaboration with the Lone Star College System, a public community college system and the largest institution of higher learning in the Houston area. Through this collaboration, the project aims to develop a program to prepare students to become K-12 teachers and leaders by obtaining both a Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM major and a Master of Education degree. This capacity building project also aims to identify ways to retain these prepared and diverse educators in the Houston area. The development of this program will provide an alternate career route for STEM majors that is designed to address a shortage of prepared and diverse educators in the community. This project at Houston Baptist University includes partnerships with the Lone Star College System and Houston Independent School District. The primary goal of this project is to develop and implement plans for a five-year BS/MEd pathway for STEM majors to earn their teaching licensure in a fifth-year program and eventually enter the Houston workforce as STEM teachers and education leaders. Project aims include: 1) increasing capacity for student success in STEM; 2) expanding capacity of the Houston Baptist University curriculum for STEM teaching licensure; and 3) strengthening capacity for professional development for STEM educators. This project seeks to identify challenges that lead to the persistent shortage of qualified and diverse STEM educators in Houston Independent School District. The needs of college students pursuing a STEM degree, STEM teachers, and local K-12 school administrators will be assessed to determine capacity for continuous growth of the program. If successful, development of the program has the potential to serve as a model for understanding STEM teacher shortages in urban school districts serving predominantly underrepresented students. Findings also have potential to be applied to other institutions with student groups experiencing similar challenges preventing them from remaining in the community and serving through teaching. This Capacity Building 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对高素质STEM教师和教育领导者数量和多样性的需求。公立学校面临着STEM教师短缺的问题，特别是那些拥有STEM学位并代表他们所服务的社区多样性的教师。这种短缺可能会限制K-12学生的STEM学习，并可能会降低他们在STEM继续教育的兴趣。 因此，缺乏高素质的STEM教师可能会影响STEM劳动力中代表性不足的少数群体的代表性。休斯顿浸会大学是一所四年制本科西班牙裔服务机构，位于德克萨斯州休斯顿，这是全国最多样化的城市之一。学生在大学的人口统计反映了那些在休斯顿地区的K-12学生。该项目包括与孤星星星学院系统合作，这是一个公共社区学院系统，也是休斯顿地区最大的高等教育机构。 通过这种合作，该项目旨在开发一个程序，让学生通过获得STEM专业的理学学士学位和教育硕士学位，为成为K-12教师和领导者做好准备。 该能力建设项目还旨在确定如何在休斯顿地区留住这些有准备和多样化的教育工作者。该计划的发展将为STEM专业提供一条替代职业路线，旨在解决社区中准备和多样化教育工作者的短缺问题。休斯顿浸会大学的这个项目包括与孤星星星学院系统和休斯顿独立学区的合作。该项目的主要目标是为STEM专业制定和实施为期五年的BS/MEd途径计划，以在第五年的课程中获得教学许可证，并最终进入休斯顿劳动力市场，成为STEM教师和教育领导者。 项目目标包括：1）提高学生在STEM方面取得成功的能力; 2）扩大休斯顿浸会大学STEM教学许可课程的能力; 3）加强STEM教育工作者的专业发展能力。该项目旨在确定导致休斯顿独立学区合格和多样化的STEM教育工作者持续短缺的挑战。将评估攻读STEM学位的大学生，STEM教师和当地K-12学校管理人员的需求，以确定该计划持续增长的能力。如果成功的话，该计划的发展有可能成为了解城市学区STEM教师短缺的典范，这些学区主要为代表性不足的学生提供服务。调查结果也有可能被应用到其他机构与学生群体经历类似的挑战，阻止他们留在社区，并通过教学服务。这个能力建设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。