Creating a Grow-Your-Own Program for Recruiting and Supporting Computer Science Teacher Candidates in Rural Georgia

创建一个自己成长的计划，用于招募和支持佐治亚州农村地区的计算机科学教师候选人

• 批准号: 2344678
• 负责人: Susie Morrissey
• 金额: $ 13.42万
• 依托单位: Mercer University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-05-01 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2344678&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; Grow; Your; Own; Program

The project aims to serve the national need of building capacity to prepare high-quality computer science (CS) teachers. Thousands of CS positions remain unfilled, partly due to a shortage of CS teachers to educate students for future CS careers. This project intends to respond to the shortage by creating a pathway for high school students to become CS teachers, with scholarship funds as an incentive. The project team plans to develop a Grow-Your-Own (GYO) model for prospective CS teachers, focused on rural Georgia. The aim of the GYO model will be to recruit interested students from high school who intend to return to their hometown to teach CS. Dual enrollment courses (for high school and college credit), stipends for two-year college courses, and scholarship funds for two years at Mercer will combine to provide a college education for prospective CS teachers.This project at Mercer University includes partnerships with Wiregrass Georgia Technical College and eight rural Georgia high-need school districts (Clinch, Coffee, Dublin, Evans, Jeff Davis, Tattnall, Treutlen, and Wheeler). Project goals include identifying and adding new partners, developing a GYO model incorporating dual enrollment and community college pathways; and creating a recruitment plan. Informal interviews and surveys with district leaders, teachers, and prospective CS teachers will inform the development of a GYO model that meets the needs of the community. Although this specific project seeks to address the shortage of CS teachers in rural Georgia, the project team intends to share effective strategies at state and national conferences to promote transfer of the development process to other settings. An external evaluator and an advisory board will also support the project. 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的需要，培养高素质的计算机科学(CS)教师。数以千计的CS职位仍然空缺，部分原因是缺少CS教师来为未来的CS职业生涯教育学生。该项目旨在为高中学生开辟一条成为CS教师的途径，并以奖学金作为激励措施，以应对这一短缺。该项目团队计划为未来的CS教师开发一个自己成长(GYO)的模式，重点放在佐治亚州的农村。GYO模式的目标是招收有兴趣的高中学生，他们打算回到家乡教授CS。双重招生课程(高中和大学学分)、两年大学课程津贴和美世两年奖学金将结合在一起，为未来的CS教师提供大学教育。美世大学的这个项目包括与维雷格拉斯佐治亚技术学院和八个佐治亚州农村高中需要的学区(克林奇、咖啡、都柏林、埃文斯、杰夫·戴维斯、塔纳尔、特鲁特伦和惠勒)的合作伙伴关系。项目目标包括确定和增加新的合作伙伴，开发包括双重招生和社区大学途径的GYO模式，以及创建招聘计划。对地区领导人、教师和未来的CS教师的非正式访谈和调查将为GYO模式的发展提供信息，以满足社区的需求。虽然这一具体项目旨在解决格鲁吉亚农村地区缺少CS教师的问题，但项目组打算在州和国家会议上分享有效的战略，以促进将发展进程转移到其他环境。一名外部评估员和一个咨询委员会也将支持该项目。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。