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

该项目旨在为国家招募、准备和支持7-12年级的高效数学、科学和工程教育者提供服务。该项目将继续并在先前努力的基础上，招聘和支持数学和科学专业的本科生攻读职前教师教育认证。该项目将加强与一所社区大学的合作，以鼓励更多的学生将数学或科学教学视为一种职业，包括那些来自不同种族背景的学生。全国各地的初中和高中对工程学的兴趣都在增加。为了响应这种兴趣，该项目将通过补充课程为学生提供工程教育方面的经验，并提供获得工程教育微证书的机会。最后，该项目通过暑期过渡项目为应届毕业生提供支持，该项目旨在鼓励第一年的教学准备，促进持续增长和协作网络。该项目在北亚利桑那大学(NAU)包括与科科尼诺社区学院(CCC)、弗拉格斯塔夫城市学区和西那瓜中学的合作伙伴关系。几个项目目标将指导调查人员今后5年的工作。首先是向30名数学/理科专业本科生提供最多两年的奖学金，以获取教师资格证书。第二，支持与CCC建立合作伙伴关系，以增加对不同背景的STEM专业潜在学生的招聘。第三是每年(第一年以后)支持最多48名工程教育微证书项目的学生。第四个也是最后一个目标是通过暑期桥牌项目为应届毕业生准备第一年的教学提供支持。所有这些努力将有助于数学和科学教师的长期留任和成功，以便有效地教育来自不同背景的学生，并通过在高需求地区纳入工程教育来提供扩展的STEM经验。将通过确定学者在多大程度上参与STEM招聘和教/学活动，如工程教育微证书和暑期桥项目，以及大学/社区学院合作伙伴关系在多大程度上扩大了对数学/科学教学职业的参与，来衡量吸引、培养和留住有效的科学和数学教师的计划效率。这个Track 1：奖学金和津贴项目由罗伯特·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。

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.