Recruiting, Preparing, and Supporting STEM Professionals as Secondary STEM Teachers in High-Need School Districts in Ohio

该项目旨在满足国家为高需求学校培养高效STEM教师的需求。为了解决教师严重短缺的问题，俄亥俄州批准了一项为受过大学教育的个人获得教师执照的加速准备途径。该项目将从全州招募STEM专业人士，并支持他们的职业过渡到高需求学区的中学STEM教学职业。这些未来的教师将参加专门的教师准备课程，虚拟一对一的指导，在STEM教室的现场实习，以及交流机会。在四年的时间里，该项目旨在增加该地区高需求学区合格STEM教师的数量。鲍灵格林州立大学的这个项目与华盛顿地方学校和扶轮国际北俄亥俄地区#6600、#6630和#6650的6000多名成员合作，旨在在四年的时间里招募32名新的STEM专业人员到高需求学区的中学STEM教学。这个项目利用了俄亥俄州获得教师执照的新途径。招聘目标将针对在学校缺乏STEM教师的社区生活和工作的STEM专业人员，以及来自STEM中代表性不足的人群的STEM专业人员。这些STEM专业人员将体验一种加速的替代许可途径，包括一对一的强化指导、有针对性的加速课程、新的教师准备技术、丰富的现场经验和长期合作伙伴关系。为了让STEM专业人员为高需求的学区环境做好准备，他们的准备工作将包括文化能力、专业倾向和教学内容知识的研究。该项目旨在研究这个加速项目的不同元素如何有效地招募和准备STEM专业人员，以从事高需求环境中的二级STEM教学职业。本项目由Robert Noyce教师奖学金项目（Noyce）资助。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教师，并支持经验丰富的模范K-12教师成为高需求学区的STEM大师教师。它还支持对高需求学区K-12 STEM教师的有效性和留任率的研究。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

This project aims to serve the national need of preparing effective STEM teachers for high-need schools. To address the critical shortage of teachers, the state of Ohio approved an accelerated preparation pathway for college-educated individuals to earn teacher licensure. This project would recruit STEM professionals from across the state and support their career transitions into secondary STEM teaching careers in high-need school districts. These prospective teachers would participate in specialized teacher preparation coursework, virtual one-on-one mentoring, in-person field placements in STEM classrooms, and networking opportunities. Over four years, this project aims to increase the number of qualified STEM teachers serving in the region’s high-need school districts. This project at Bowling Green State University, in partnership with Washington Local Schools and the 6,000+ members of the Rotary International Northern Ohio Districts #6600, #6630 and #6650, aims to recruit 32 new STEM professionals to secondary STEM teaching in high-need school districts over four years. This project leverages Ohio’s new alternative pathway to teacher licensure. Recruitment will target STEM professionals who live and work in communities where schools have STEM teacher shortages, as well as STEM professionals from populations underrepresented in STEM. These STEM professionals would experience an accelerated, alternative licensure pathway that uses intensive one-on-one mentoring, targeted accelerated coursework, new teacher preparation technologies, enriched field experiences, and long-term partnerships. To prepare STEM professionals for high-need school district contexts, their preparation would include studies of cultural competence, professional dispositions, and pedagogical content knowledge. This project aims to investigate how the different elements of this accelerated program may be effective in recruiting and preparing STEM professionals for secondary STEM teaching careers in high-need settings.This Track 1: Scholarships & 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 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.