Building Capacity to Transform Practices in STEM Education

“改造STEM教育实践的能力建设”项目旨在满足国家解决高素质STEM教师短缺的需求，这对向大型高需求学区的学生提供教育的交付和质量产生了负面影响。该项目旨在招募和培训生物和化学专业的学生成为纽约市教育局学校的中学教师。活动包括发展、拓展和招聘工作，特别侧重于增加未来有色人种科学教师的数量。该项目将为未来的Medgar Evers学院/布鲁克林学院合作提案建立衔接、课程和其他招聘和培训组成部分的机构间和机构内结构。这个能力建设项目包括与教育学院、梅加·埃弗斯学院的科学、卫生和技术学院以及布鲁克林学院的教育学院建立伙伴关系。该项目将在两所教育机构进行为期5年的学士/硕士双学位项目，旨在建立一个学术渠道，支持学生从MEC的本科教育成功过渡到BC的研究生学习。该项目还计划开发和试点一个可持续的学习社区，该社区将作为指导的基础，以支持学生从职前到在职教学，重点关注社会和情感健康。该项目将确定合作伙伴/利益相关者，并试点专业发展活动，这些活动将强调以探究为基础的教学讲习班，并促进继续教育和保留新科学教师。这个项目的方法是独特的，因为它将从整体上瞄准影响STEM教师招聘和保留的因素，并可能有助于增加未来有色人种科学教师的研究。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。

The Building Capacity to Transform Practices in STEM Education project aims to serve the national need to address the shortage of highly qualified STEM teachers, which negatively impacts the delivery and quality of education provided to students in large high-need school districts. This project seeks to recruit and train biology and chemistry majors to become secondary teachers in New York City Department of Education schools. Activities include the development, outreach and recruitment efforts specifically focused on increasing the pool of prospective science teachers of color. The project will establish the inter- and intra- institutional structures for articulation, curricula, and other recruitment and training components for a future Medgar Evers College /Brooklyn College collaborative proposal. This capacity building project includes partnerships with the School of Education, the School of Science, Health and Technology at Medgar Evers College (MEC), and the School of Education at Brooklyn College (BC). The project will be structured as a 5-year BS/MA dual degree project across the two educational institutions and aims to create an academic pipeline that will support the successful transition of students from undergraduate education at MEC to graduate studies at BC. The project also plans to develop and pilot a sustainable learning community that will serve as a foundation for mentorship to support students from pre-service to in-service teaching, with a focus on the social and emotional wellness. The project will identify partners/stakeholders, and pilot professional development activities that will emphasize inquiry-based pedagogical workshops, and promote continuing education and retention of novice science teachers. This project is unique in its approach because it will holistically target factors that affect STEM teachers’ recruitment and retention and will potentially contribute to research on increasing the pool of prospective science teachers of color. 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.