Establishing new pathways and partnerships in STEM teacher education

该项目旨在满足国家对高素质初中和高中STEM教师的需求，以解决教育和灵感方面的差距，特别是针对农村、低收入和以少数群体为重点的学校和其他高需求学校的学生，在这些学校，合格的STEM教师的机会有限。该项目将建立一个合作努力，为STEM有才华的社区大学生探索机会、障碍和途径，让STEM专业的学生转到四年制大学的教学准备计划，让STEM专业的学生获得教育执照，并扩大STEM实习教师将接受培训和聘用的高需求学校网络。这项拟议中的堪萨斯大学(KU)工作将利用与堪萨斯城和堪萨斯州肖尼教会公立学校区现有的高中合作伙伴关系，这两个地区都是高需求区。同时寻求与约翰逊县和堪萨斯城社区学院以及附近的机构发展新的合作伙伴关系，这些机构为与军队有关联和/或来自美洲原住民的候选人提供服务。项目目标包括1)为KU成功的教师奖学金计划制定一套清晰明了的需求和期望；2)为从当地社区大学开始的学生确定在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；以及4)为未来教师奖学金计划毕业生的就业提供支持的协议。这将通过征求KU、地区高等教育机构和高需求学校的学生、教职员工和管理人员的意见来实现。该项目由罗伯特·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。

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.