Building a Culturally-Competent STEM Teacher Workforce in Northeast Ohio

该项目旨在满足地方、区域和国家在K-12学校招聘、培训和毕业更多STEM教育工作者的需求，并确保这些学生获得必要的培训，在不同的课堂上取得成功。为了满足这些需求并建立实施Noyce项目所需的能力，鲍德温华莱士大学将开发一个新的以stem为基础的教育项目；为该项目与地区K-12学校和社区学院建立更强大的招生渠道，包括创建一个新的双招生项目，重点关注STEM教育；并提高学生在文化能力实践（CCP）中接受的培训质量，以更好地为毕业生成为成功的STEM教育者做好准备。鲍德温华莱士大学（BWU）的这个项目包括与克利夫兰大都会学区、美景公园城市学区、凯霍加社区学院和洛雷恩县社区学院的合作。该项目的目标是(1)设计并推出一个新的STEM教育学士课程，该课程将生物学或数学专业与满足俄亥俄州教师执照要求所需的课程相结合；(2)提高教育和STEM教师的知识和能力，将使用文化能力实践的教学融入课程；(3)通过建立STEM教育项目的招聘渠道，加强与地区高中的现有合作关系；(4)加强与地区社区学院的现有合作关系，重点招收STEM教育项目的转校生。这些活动将提高BWU的能力，以满足日益增长的地方，区域和国家对额外的，训练有素的，有文化能力的STEM教育工作者的需求。此外，作为最终第1轨道提案的一部分，项目负责人将研究如何将具有文化能力的实践融入课程，以拓宽年轻STEM教育工作者的视野，提高他们的适应能力。项目评估将依赖于项目团队和合作伙伴的访谈，以确定对拟议项目活动的忠实度，以及这些活动实现拟议产出的程度。该能力建设项目由罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金项目（诺伊斯）支持。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 STEM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、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。

The project aims to serve the local, regional, and national needs of recruiting, training, and graduating more STEM educators in K-12 schools and ensuring those students have the training necessary to succeed in diverse classrooms. To address these needs and build the capacity necessary to implement a Noyce program, Baldwin Wallace University will develop a new STEM-anchored education program; establish stronger recruitment pipelines for that program with area K–12 schools and community colleges, including the creation of a new dual enrollment program focused on STEM education; and improve the quality of training that students receive in culturally competent practices (CCP) to better prepare graduates to succeed as STEM educators. This project at Baldwin Wallace University (BWU) includes partnerships with Cleveland Metropolitan School District, Fairview Park City School District, Cuyahoga Community College, and Lorain County Community College. The project objectives are to (1) design and launch a new STEM education bachelor’s program that couples a major in biology or mathematics with the courses necessary to meet the teacher licensure requirements in the State of Ohio; (2) improve the education and STEM faculty’s knowledge of and capacity to integrate instruction in the use of culturally competent practices into the curriculum; (3) strengthen existing partnerships with area high schools by establishing a recruitment pipeline into the STEM education program; and (4) strengthen existing partnerships with area community colleges with a focus on recruiting transfer students in the STEM education program. These activities will improve BWU’s capacity to meet the growing local, regional, and national need for additional, well-trained, culturally competent STEM educators. Additionally, as part of the eventual Track 1 proposal, the project leaders will study how the integration of culturally competent practices into the curriculum might broaden the perspectives of and increase the resilience of young STEM educators. The program evaluation will rely on interviews of the project team and partners to establish the fidelity to proposed project activities and the extent to which those activities achieved the proposed outputs. 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 STEM 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.