Striking a STEM Teacher Pipeline: A Capacity Building Project

打造 STEM 教师队伍：能力建设项目

• 批准号: 2243394
• 负责人: Vanessa Pitts Bannister
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2243394&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Striking; STEM; Teacher; Pipeline; Capacity

The project aims to serve the national need of building capacity to address effective strategies for recruiting and retaining mathematics teachers in high-need schools. The project aspires to strengthen, re-imagine, and develop partnerships between university faculty and high-need school districts to structure necessary educational pipelines specific to mathematics education. A key strategy to be used relies on these partnerships for opportunities to establish students’ interest in teaching secondary mathematics at high-need schools and eventually enroll participants in a Bachelor’s/Master’s curricular pathway to secondary mathematics teaching. Founded on standards-based instruction and tenets of culturally responsive teaching, the Bachelor’s/Master’s curricular pathway will focus on examinations of instructional practices that best address the complex demands of teaching in high-need schools. Ultimately, the pathway could make positive contributions to high-need schools and their local communities by developing certified, culturally responsive teachers with this unique preparation.This project at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) includes partnerships with three high-need school districts: FAMU Developmental Research School K-12, Gadsden County School District and Jefferson County Schools K-12. Project goals include: 1) conducting a needs assessment to better understand strengths and challenges at neighboring high-need schools by engaging secondary students, teachers, and administrators, STEM undergraduate majors, and faculty at FAMU; 2) strengthening partnerships between FAMU and neighboring high-need schools to co-investigate and co-design effective models to incorporate into a Bachelor’s/Master’s curricular pathway; 3) enhancing collaborations among FAMU faculty to build the capacity of university faculty members to offer instruction and experiences that support preservice mathematics teachers’ learning; 4) co-designing, with FAMU faculty and neighboring high-need school districts, instructional tasks and field clinical experiences for incorporation in a Bachelor’s/Master’s curricular pathway 5) enhancing institutional knowledge of methodologies for recruitment, preparation, and retention of STEM teachers for high-need schools; and 6) systematically identifying project successes, impacts, challenges, and outcomes to develop a more comprehensive project to support secondary mathematics teacher candidates. 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 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.

该项目的目的是满足国家能力建设的需要，以便制定有效的战略，在高需求学校招聘和留住数学教师。该项目旨在加强、重新构想和发展大学教师与高需求学区之间的伙伴关系，以构建针对数学教育的必要教育管道。一个关键的策略是依靠这些合作伙伴关系来建立学生对在高需求学校教授中学数学的兴趣，并最终让参与者参加中学数学教学的学士/硕士课程。在以标准为基础的教学和文化响应教学原则的基础上，学士/硕士课程将侧重于教学实践的考试，以最好地解决高需求学校的复杂教学需求。最终，通过这种独特的准备，该途径可以通过培养合格的、对文化有反应的教师，为高需求学校及其当地社区做出积极贡献。佛罗里达农业和机械大学（FAMU）的这个项目包括与三个高需求学区的合作：FAMU发展研究学校K-12，加兹登县学区和杰斐逊县学校K-12。项目目标包括：1)通过参与中学学生、教师、管理人员、STEM本科专业和FAMU的教师，进行需求评估，以更好地了解邻近高需求学校的优势和挑战；2)加强FAMU与邻近高需求学校之间的合作，共同研究和设计有效的模式，将其纳入学士/硕士课程路径；3)加强FAMU教师之间的合作，建立大学教师提供指导和经验的能力，以支持职前数学教师的学习；4)与FAMU教师和邻近的高需求学区共同设计教学任务和实地临床经验，以纳入学士/硕士课程途径5)加强对高需求学校招聘、准备和保留STEM教师方法的机构知识；6)系统地识别项目的成功、影响、挑战和结果，以开发一个更全面的项目来支持中学数学教师候选人。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。