Capacity Building to Address the Shortage of Mathematics Teachers in Hawaii

该项目旨在服务于了解和填补中学数学教师短缺的国家需要。特别是，它将建设能力，以审查夏威夷教师队伍内部和整个管道中的系统性问题，这些问题包括对新数学教师的招聘和教育的影响，以及对高需求学校课堂教师的持续专业成长和留住的影响。这个项目涉及多个机构和组织之间的数据共享、收集、分析和解释，共同努力解决夏威夷数学教师的严重短缺问题。它试图为以下问题找到更全面的答案：是什么阻碍了有前途的人追求教师职业生涯？有抱负的教师面临哪些障碍或障碍？是什么阻碍了教师在急需帮助的学校和课堂上长期成功的职业生涯？夏威夷大学MāNoa的这个项目包括三个大学校区(夏威夷西奥胡岛大学；夏威夷大学希洛大学)和夏威夷大学系统中的两个社区学院(利沃德社区学院和卡皮奥拉尼社区学院)之间的战略合作伙伴关系。它还与管理该州所有公立学校的夏威夷州教育部以及管理夏威夷教育和劳动力部门数据的合作机构夏威夷数据交换伙伴关系建立了伙伴关系。项目目标包括开展跨机构研究，为解决夏威夷数学教师短缺的努力提供信息，为这些努力发展伙伴关系和参与，并为这些目的建立/完善数据收集、共享和再利用。该项目将对多个数据来源进行定量和定性分析，包括方案文件、二手来源以及新的调查和访谈数据。该项目的智力价值在于促进对夏威夷数学教师短缺的了解。它将为以下方面提供研究基础：设计吸引STEM大学生并吸引他们进入教师职业生涯的方法；解决有抱负的数学教师在试图进入并完成教师教育计划时可能面临的挑战；以及更好地支持高需求学校的教师和管理人员。该项目的更广泛影响包括开发数据收集和再利用系统，以及分析方法，这将使利益攸关方能够审视现在和未来的教师队伍管道。该诺伊斯能力建设项目由罗伯特·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 needs of understanding and filling the teacher shortage in secondary mathematics. In particular, it will build capacity to examine systemic issues within and across the teacher workforce pipeline in Hawai‘i. Such issues include influences on the recruitment and education of new mathematics teachers as well as the ongoing professional growth and retention of classroom teachers in high-need schools. This project involves data sharing, collection, analysis, and interpretation among multiple institutions and organizations working collaboratively to address the critical shortage of mathematics teachers in Hawai‘i. It seeks to develop fuller answers to the following questions: What keeps promising individuals from pursuing teaching careers? What barriers or hurdles do aspiring teachers face? What impedes teachers from having long and successful careers in high-need schools and classrooms?This project at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa includes a strategic partnership among all three university campuses (University of Hawai‘i West O‘ahu; University of Hawai‘i Hilo) and two community colleges in the University of Hawai‘i System (Leeward Community College and Kap‘iolani Community College). It also features partnerships with the Hawai‘i State Department of Education, which operates all public schools in the state, as well as with the Hawai‘i Data eXchange Partnership, a collaborative that manages data from Hawai‘i’s education and workforce sectors. Project goals include carrying out cross-institutional research to inform efforts to address Hawai‘i’s mathematics teacher shortage, develop partnerships and engagement for these efforts, and build/refine data collection, sharing, and reuse for these purposes. The project will carry out quantitative and qualitative analyses of multiple data sources, including program documents, secondary sources, and new survey and interview data. The intellectual merit of the project entails advancing knowledge about the mathematics teacher shortage in Hawai‘i. It will offer a research foundation to: design approaches for engaging STEM college students and attracting them into teaching careers; address challenges that aspiring mathematics teachers may face when trying to enter and complete teacher education programs; and better support teachers and administrators at high-need schools. The broader impacts of this project include development of data collection and reuse systems, together with analytic approaches, that will allow stakeholders to look across the teacher workforce pipeline both now and in the future. This Noyce 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.