Building Capacity to Enhance Rural Illinois STEM Teacher Education Pathways

加强伊利诺伊州农村 STEM 教师教育途径的能力建设

• 批准号: 2150879
• 负责人: Jaime Klein
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: Illinois College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-03-01 至 2023-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2150879&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Capacity; Enhance; Rural; Illinois

The project aims to meet the national need for more secondary STEM teachers in rural areas. Specifically, the effort responds to new Illinois state legislation that adds a year of computer science and two years of laboratory science to the high school graduation requirements. To address the resulting teacher workforce demands, Illinois College will revise and streamline pathways to STEM teacher licensure for STEM majors. These efforts will be guided by data collection to reveal barriers for STEM major recruitment to secondary STEM teaching careers. Additionally, the leadership team will apply insights from data collected, along with input from a STEM Advisory Committee, to streamline and revise the current STEM major curricula, so that students could double major in Education and finish their undergraduate degrees within 4 years. The 10-person STEM Advisory Committee will be majority school district stakeholders, including an Illinois College STEM alumnus now teaching secondary science, along with multiple Illinois College STEM and Education faculty. These changes could make preparation for STEM teaching careers more affordable and accessible, thereby increasing and diversifying the regional STEM teacher workforce.This project at Illinois College includes partnerships with four high-need local school districts – A-C Central, Beardstown, Jacksonville, and Virginia – as well as among STEM and Education faculty. The project has multiple goals, all of which aim to create a pipeline of high-quality STEM teachers to serve rural schools in west-central Illinois. The project will survey STEM majors to understand drivers and barriers to pursuing secondary STEM teacher licensure. Additionally, the project will streamline STEM and Education major programs to enable students to complete both majors and teaching licensure in four years. Further, the project will design a new computer science endorsement for STEM teachers to address new state legislation that adds computer science to high school graduation requirements. The project will be guided by input from a STEM Advisory Committee with members representing high-need schools, current STEM students, and alumni who are now STEM teachers, as well as STEM and Education faculty. Through these activities, Illinois College will strengthen its partnerships and recruitment efforts with local high-need schools. Outcomes of the effort could produce insights about making STEM teaching careers more accessible and affordable for STEM majors at other institutions and in rural contexts. 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.

该项目旨在满足全国农村地区对更多中学STEM教师的需求。具体来说，这一努力是对伊利诺伊州新立法的回应，该立法在高中毕业要求中增加了一年的计算机科学和两年的实验室科学。为了解决由此产生的教师队伍的需求，伊利诺伊大学将修改和简化途径，以STEM教师执照为STEM专业。这些工作将以数据收集为指导，以揭示STEM专业招聘到中学STEM教学职业的障碍。此外，领导团队将应用从收集的数据，沿着从STEM咨询委员会的输入见解，精简和修改目前的STEM专业课程，使学生可以在教育双专业，并在4年内完成本科学位。由10人组成的STEM咨询委员会将是大多数学区的利益相关者，包括一名伊利诺伊大学STEM校友，沿着多名伊利诺伊大学STEM和教育教师。这些变化可以使STEM教学职业的准备更实惠和更容易获得，从而增加和多样化的区域STEM教师队伍。伊利诺伊大学的这个项目包括与四个高需求的当地学区- A-C中心，比尔兹敦，杰克逊维尔和弗吉尼亚州-以及STEM和教育教师之间的合作伙伴关系。该项目有多个目标，所有这些目标都旨在创建一个高质量的STEM教师管道，为伊利诺伊州中西部的农村学校服务。该项目将调查STEM专业，以了解追求中学STEM教师执照的驱动因素和障碍。此外，该项目将简化STEM和教育专业课程，使学生能够在四年内完成专业和教学许可证。此外，该项目将为STEM教师设计一个新的计算机科学认可，以解决新的州立法，将计算机科学添加到高中毕业要求中。该项目将由STEM咨询委员会的投入指导，该委员会的成员代表高需求学校，当前STEM学生和现在是STEM教师的校友，以及STEM和教育教师。通过这些活动，伊利诺伊大学将加强与当地高需求学校的伙伴关系和招聘工作。这项工作的结果可以产生关于使STEM教学职业更容易获得和负担得起的STEM专业在其他机构和农村环境的见解。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。