Building Capacity to Transform Practices in STEM Education

培养转变STEM教育做法的能力项目旨在满足国家的需要，解决高素质STEM教师短缺的问题，这对大的高需求学区向学生提供的教育和教育质量产生了不利影响。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。活动包括专门侧重于增加有色人种科学教师队伍的发展、外联和招聘工作。该项目将为梅德加·埃弗斯学院/布鲁克林学院未来的合作提案建立衔接、课程和其他招聘和培训部分的机构间和机构内结构。该能力建设项目包括与教育学院、梅德加·埃弗斯学院科学、卫生和技术学院(MEC)和布鲁克林学院教育学院(BC)的伙伴关系。该项目将作为两个教育机构的5年制理学士/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，作为指导的基础，支持学生从职前到在职教学，重点放在社交和情感健康上。该项目将确定合作伙伴/利益攸关方，并试点专业发展活动，强调以探究为基础的教学讲习班，促进继续教育和留住科学新手教师。该项目在方法上是独一无二的，因为它将全面地针对影响STEM教师招聘和留住的因素，并可能有助于研究增加未来有色人种科学教师的队伍。该能力建设项目由罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划(NOYCE)提供支持。Noyce计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人员成为有效的K-12 STEM教师，并支持经验丰富、模范的K-12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教师的有效性和留住的研究。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.