Promoting STEM Education Access through Scholarships, Engineering Education Microcredentials, and a Community College Partnership

通过奖学金、工程教育微证书和社区大学合作伙伴关系促进 STEM 教育

• 批准号: 2243553
• 负责人: Angela Hodge
• 金额: $ 144.84万
• 依托单位: Northern Arizona University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2028-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2243553&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Promoting; STEM; Education; Access; through

This project aims to serve the national need for recruiting, preparing, and supporting highly effective mathematics, science, and engineering educators in grades 7-12. The project will continue and build on prior efforts to recruit and support undergraduate mathematics and science majors to pursue pre-service teacher education certification. The project will strengthen a partnership with a community college to encourage more students to consider mathematics or science teaching as a profession, including those from ethnically diverse backgrounds. There is increased interest in engineering at middle and high schools around the country. Responding to this interest, the project will provide students with experiences in engineering education through supplemental coursework and the opportunity to earn an engineering education microcredential. Finally, this project provides new graduates support via a summer bridge program designed to encourage first-year teaching readiness and promote continued growth and collaborative networking.This project at Northern Arizona University (NAU) includes a partnership with Coconino Community College (CCC), Flagstaff Urban School District, and Sinagua Middle School. Several project goals will guide the work of the investigators for the next 5 years. First is to provide 30 undergraduate mathematics/science majors with up to two years of scholarships to pursue teacher certification. Second is to support a partnership with CCC to increase recruitment of potential STEM majors from diverse backgrounds. Third is to support up to 48 students per year (after year 1) in an engineering education microcredential program. The fourth and final goal is to provide new graduates support in preparing for their first year of teaching through a summer bridge program. All of these efforts will contribute to the long-term retention and success of mathematics and science teachers to effectively educate students from diverse backgrounds and provide expanded STEM experiences through incorporation of engineering education in high-need districts. Program efficacy for attracting, developing, and retaining effective science and mathematics teachers will be measured by determining to what extent scholars participate in STEM recruitment and teaching/learning activities, such as the engineering education microcredential and summer bridge programs, and to what extent the university/community college partnership broadens participation in the mathematics/science teaching careers. This Track 1: Scholarships 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 teacher 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7 - 12年级的高效数学，科学和工程教育者的招聘，准备和支持的国家需求。该项目将继续并以先前的努力为基础，以招募和支持本科数学和科学专业的专业，以寻求职前教师教育认证。该项目将加强与社区学院的合作伙伴关系，以鼓励更多的学生将数学或科学教学视为一种职业，包括来自种族多元化的背景的职业。全国中学和高中的工程兴趣增加。为了应对这一兴趣，该项目将通过补充课程为学生提供工程教育的经验，并有机会获得工程教育微计量。最后，该项目通过夏季桥梁计划为新的毕业生提供支持，旨在鼓励一年级教学准备，并促进持续的成长和协作网络。该项目的北亚利桑那大学（NAU）包括与可可菌社区学院（CCC），弗拉格斯塔夫城市学区和锡那西瓜中学的合作。几个项目目标将指导未来5年的调查人员的工作。首先是提供30个本科数学/科学专业的专业，并提供多达两年的奖学金来获得教师认证。其次是支持与CCC建立合作伙伴关系，以增加不同背景的潜在STEM专业的招聘。第三是每年最多48名学生（1年以后）在工程教育微评估计划中。第四个也是最终目标是为通过夏季桥梁计划为他们的第一年教学提供新的毕业生支持。所有这些努力将有助于数学和科学教师的长期保留和成功，以有效地教育来自不同背景的学生，并通过在高需求地区的工程教育纳入工程教育，从而提供扩展的STEM体验。通过确定学者在多大程度上参与STEM招聘和教学/学习活动，例如工程教育微社会和夏季桥梁计划，以及在多大程度上扩大了在何种程度上，学者在多大程度上扩大了数学/科学教学的参与，可以通过确定学者在多大程度上参与STEM招聘和教学/学习活动来衡量，以吸引，发展和保留有效的科学和数学教师的计划疗效，以衡量有效的科学和数学教师。这首歌1：奖学金和津贴项目得到了罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划（NOYCE）的支持。 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老师，并经验丰富的K-12老师，成为高需求学区的STEM大师教师。它还支持有关在高需求学区K-12 STEM教师的有效性和保留的研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准通过评估来支持的。