Establishing new pathways and partnerships in STEM teacher education

该项目旨在满足国家对高质量初中和高中STEM教师的需求，以解决教育和灵感差距，特别是农村，低收入和少数民族学校以及其他高需求学校的学生，这些学校获得合格的STEM教师的机会有限。该项目将建立一个合作努力，以探索机会，障碍和途径，为有才华的社区大学学生在干转移到一个4年制大学的教学准备计划，为干专业寻求教育执照，并扩大高需求学校的网络，在那里STEM学生教师将得到培训和雇用。这项提议在堪萨斯大学（KU）进行将利用与堪萨斯城和堪萨斯州肖尼使命公立学区的现有合作伙伴关系，这两个地区都是高需求地区，同时寻求与约翰逊县和堪萨斯城堪萨斯社区学院以及附近的机构发展新的合作伙伴关系，为军事附属和/或来自美洲原住民国家的候选人提供服务。项目目标包括：1）为KU成功的教师奖学金计划制定一套明确的需求和期望; 2）确定从当地社区学院开始的学生在KU完成STEM教师准备计划的途径; 3）改进KU现有的STEM教师准备计划;和4）生成协议，支持未来教师奖学金计划毕业生的安置。这将通过寻求KU，区域高等教育机构和高需求学校的学生，员工，教师和管理人员的投入来实现。该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。

The project aims to serve the national need for high-quality middle and high school STEM teachers to address educational and inspiration gaps, especially for students in rural, lower-income, and minority-focused and other high needs schools, where access to qualified STEM teachers is limited. The project will establish a collaborative effort to explore opportunities, barriers, and pathways for talented community college students in STEM to transfer to a 4-year university’s teaching preparation program, for STEM majors to seek licensure in education, and to expand the network of high-needs schools where STEM student teachers would be trained and hired.This proposed work at the University of Kansas (KU) will leverage existing partnerships with high schools in the Kansas City and Shawnee Mission public school districts in Kansas, both of which are high-need districts, while seeking to develop new partnerships with the Johnson County and Kansas City Kansas community colleges as well as nearby institutions serving candidates who are military-affiliated and/or from Native American nations. Project goals include 1) producing a clearly articulated set of needs and expectations for a successful teacher scholarship program at KU; 2) identifying pathways for students starting at local community colleges to complete the STEM teacher preparation program at KU; 3) developing improvements in KU’s existing STEM teacher preparation program; and 4) generating agreements in support of placements for future teacher scholarship program graduates. This will be achieved by seeking input from students, staff, faculty, and administrators at KU, regional higher education institutions and high-needs schools. This 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.