Shaping Innovative New Educators in STEM through Culturally Responsive, Sustaining, and Ecologically Grounded Hands-on Experiences and Professional Development

该项目旨在满足国家对增加高素质STEM教育工作者数量的需求，特别是那些为高需求学校的学生服务的教育工作者。该项目将招募未来的STEM专业学生和STEM专业人士，并从大三开始提供奖学金支持，或为学士学位后的教师认证提供津贴支持。学者们将沉浸在专业课程、实地体验、专业发展和指导、教育非营利合作伙伴关系以及夏季教学前的机会中。这些经验和项目元素旨在帮助教师在最需要高素质和忠诚的STEM教育工作者的青年中取得成功。学者们将制定严格和公平的做法，通过与STEM、教育和心理学领域的教师团队合作，满足学生的学术、社会和情感需求。摩拉维亚大学的项目包括与Allentown学区、伯利恒地区学区、东宾夕法尼亚学校社区和利哈伊山谷夏桥的合作。三个项目目标为主要研究人员的工作提供了一个框架。首先是招募并增加摩拉维亚大学招收的高素质、多样化的STEM准教师人数。第二，为STEM教师提供创新的实践经验和高影响力的实践，使他们具备技能，成为高需求学区的文化响应和高效教育工作者。第三，也是最后一点，是通过加强STEM教育工作者的支持系统来留住教师，以增加他们在高需求学校中作为创新、高效、长期专业人士的成功。该计划以STEM教学和学习的生态学视角为指导。通过强调教学内容知识和文化响应教学的重要性，该项目具有强大的潜力，为未来的教育工作者在高需求学校中成为成功的STEM教育工作者做好准备。该项目旨在招募和支持28名生物学、普通科学、计算机科学和数学领域的本科生和研究生。通过模拟高需求学校的STEM卓越，该项目有可能培养STEM教师，他们将教授和激励学生从事STEM职业。项目评估将评估支持系统对教师成功和留任的影响。这些项目的成果将通过各种STEM教师教育会议和期刊发布，如《生物教育杂志》和科学教师教育协会年会。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教师的有效性和留任率的研究。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 for increasing the number of highly-qualified STEM educators, especially those serving students in high-need schools. The project will recruit prospective STEM majors and STEM professionals and provide scholarship support beginning in their junior year or stipend support for post-baccalaureate teacher certification. Scholars will be immersed in a combination of specialized coursework, field experiences, professional development and mentoring, educational nonprofit partnerships, and summer pre-teaching opportunities. The experiences and programmatic elements are designed to prepare teachers for success with youth who are most in need of highly-qualified and committed STEM educators. Scholars will develop rigorous and equitable practices that address their students’ academic, social, and emotional needs by working with a team of faculty in STEM, education, and psychology.The project at Moravian University includes partnerships with the Allentown School District, Bethlehem Area School District, Communities in School of Eastern Pennsylvania, and Lehigh Valley Summerbridge. Three project goals provide a framework for the principal investigators work. First is to recruit and increase the number of highly qualified and diverse STEM prospective teachers enrolled at Moravian University. Second is to prepare STEM teachers with innovative hands-on experiences and high-impact practices that provide them with the skills to become culturally responsive and highly effective educators in high-need school districts. Third and finally is to retain teachers by enhancing their support system of STEM educators to increase success as innovative, highly effective, long-term professionals in high-need schools. The program is guided by an ecologically grounded perspective on STEM teaching and learning. By emphasizing the importance of pedagogical content knowledge and culturally responsive teaching, this project has strong potential to prepare future educators for successful careers as STEM educators in high-need schools. The project aims to recruit and support a total of 28 undergraduate and post-baccalaureate scholars in biology, general science, computer science, and mathematics. By modeling STEM excellence in high-need schools, the project has the potential to prepare STEM teachers who will teach and inspire students to pursue careers in STEM. Project evaluation will assess the impact of support system on teacher success and retention. Results from the projects will be disseminated through various STEM teacher education conferences and journals such as the Journal of Biological Education and the Association of Science Teacher Education annual conference. This Track 1: Scholarship 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 effectiveness and retention 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.