Building Capacity by Strengthening Pathways and Recruitment Strategies for Future STEM Teachers through a Community College and University Partnership

通过社区学院和大学的合作伙伴关系，加强未来 STEM 教师的途径和招聘策略，进行能力建设

• 批准号: 2243471
• 负责人: German Moreno
• 金额: $ 12.5万
• 依托单位: Dona Ana Branch Community College
• 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: 2023-04-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2243471&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Capacity; Strengthening; Pathways; Recruitment

The project aims to serve the national need of building capacity to address the challenge of teacher shortages in high-need school districts particularly in STEM areas. The intention of this proposal is to develop clear pathways from the community college into the main university campus, and to develop an understanding of student perceptions about STEM and the teaching profession to better recruit and prepare STEM teachers. The intended collaboration between Dona Ana Community College (DACC) and New Mexico State University (NMSU) will be essential for building sustainable STEM educator pathways. These partners will work together to create practices that address what STEM undergraduates need to become effective STEM teachers. To accomplish these aims, both institutions will develop STEM degree concentrations to support a future Noyce Track 1 proposal. Additionally, data analysis aimed at understanding STEM student interest in simultaneously pursuing a major in a STEM discipline and a minor in Secondary Education at both institutions will be used to develop a recruitment plan for Noyce Scholars. As one of six minority-as-majority states, New Mexico’s schooling environment exhibits the complex educational, cultural, and economic challenges occurring throughout the United States. With NMSU located within three school districts along the US-Mexico border and producing only a small number of mathematics or science pre-service teachers, this region echos the national declining trend in teacher production. At the same time, there is a state-wide need for STEM prepared employees in military, space, and agriculturally based industries. This project at Dona Ana Community College includes a partnership with New Mexico State University. Project goals include the development of teacher education pathways that allow STEM majors to minor in Education, and the development of a recruitment plan. We will draw on research about the importance of teachers having high levels of content and pedagogical knowledge and intend on centering our recruitment plans on the needs of students from underrepresented minority groups given the demographics of the students at both institutions. Additionally, we will draw on approaches to collaboration that foster organizational boundary-spanning activities that lead to new inter-institutional norms. We will collect data from students through survey research about levels of interest in STEM teaching to design a recruitment plan. This project will allow both institutions to prepare teachers so they can successfully prepare their students for STEM learning despite strained socio-economic supports. Successful strategies implemented and documented from this project can be a model for replication at similar institutions. The independent evaluation approach for this capacity-building project, conducted by the Southwest Outreach Academic Research Evaluation and Policy Center, will be both formative and summative. Project outcomes will be disseminated through local, state, and national conferences. 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.

该项目旨在满足国家能力建设需求，以应对高需求学区，特别是STEM领域教师短缺的挑战。该提案的目的是制定从社区学院到主要大学校园的明确途径，并了解学生对STEM和教师职业的看法，以更好地招聘和准备STEM教师。多纳安娜社区学院（DACC）和新墨西哥州州立大学（NMSU）之间的预期合作将是建立可持续的STEM教育途径必不可少的。这些合作伙伴将共同努力，创造解决STEM本科生成为有效的STEM教师所需的实践。为了实现这些目标，这两个机构将开发STEM学位集中，以支持未来的诺伊斯轨道1提案。 此外，旨在了解STEM学生在两所院校同时攻读STEM学科专业和中学教育辅修专业的兴趣的数据分析将用于制定诺伊斯学者的招聘计划。作为六个少数民族占多数的州之一，新墨西哥州的学校环境展示了美国各地发生的复杂的教育，文化和经济挑战。随着NMSU位于三个学区内沿着美墨边境和生产只有少数的数学或科学职前教师，这一地区呼应全国教师生产下降的趋势。与此同时，全州范围内需要在军事，航天和农业行业中为STEM做好准备的员工。 多纳安娜社区学院的这个项目包括与新墨西哥州州立大学的合作。项目目标包括教师教育途径的发展，使STEM专业的教育未成年人，以及招聘计划的发展。我们将借鉴有关教师具有高水平的内容和教学知识的重要性的研究，并打算集中我们的招聘计划对学生的需求，从代表性不足的少数群体鉴于学生在这两个机构的人口统计。此外，我们将借鉴合作的方法，促进组织的跨越边界的活动，导致新的机构间规范。我们将通过调查研究收集学生对STEM教学兴趣程度的数据，以设计招聘计划。该项目将使这两个机构准备教师，使他们能够成功地准备他们的学生STEM学习，尽管紧张的社会经济支持。该项目实施和记录的成功战略可以成为类似机构复制的模式。由西南外联学术研究评价和政策中心进行的这一能力建设项目的独立评价方法将是形成性和总结性的。项目成果将通过地方、州和国家会议传播。 这个能力建设项目是通过罗伯特诺伊斯教师奖学金计划（诺伊斯）的支持。诺伊斯计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人士成为有效的K-12 STEM教师和经验丰富的模范K-12教师，成为高需求学区的STEM硕士教师。该奖项反映了NSF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。