Building Partnerships to Recruit Recent STEM Graduates into a Masters of Arts in Teaching Program

建立合作伙伴关系，招募应届 STEM 毕业生加入教学硕士项目

• 批准号: 2345165
• 负责人: Mollie Appelgate
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Iowa State 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: 2024-05-15 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2345165&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Partnerships; Recruit; Recent; STEM

The project aims to serve the national need of preparing high-quality secondary STEM teachers to teach in high-need rural and urban communities by building partnerships across the university and the state. As the land grant university, Iowa State University (ISU) is charged with serving the children of Iowa and their diverse needs. Through a strategic collaboration with faculty in education and engineering, as well as with a nationally recognized program for supporting first-generation students in STEM fields, this capacity-building project aims to redesign the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) to attract more students and create future teachers better prepared to serve the diverse needs of Iowa’s students. Having well-prepared STEM teachers will support students’ STEM knowledge base and secure Iowa’s growth as a global competitor in the increasingly technological world.This capacity-building project at Iowa State University includes a partnership with Science Bound, an organization that has supported first-generation university students’ success in STEM (plus agriculture) majors for over 30 years. Project goals include 1) Increasing the number and diversity of applicants for the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT), a 12-month program for STEM graduates to become secondary mathematics and science teachers; 2) Redesigning the MAT curriculum to strengthen teacher candidates’ cultural competency and to integrate university coursework with purposeful teaching experiences that provide opportunities for teacher candidates to apply what they have learned; and 3) Positioning ISU to submit a Track 2 Noyce proposal in 2025. While research has identified promising practices, teacher educators and teacher education programs still grapple with how to best educate teacher candidates so that they are strong teachers for students from diverse backgrounds when they enter the profession. Partnering with Science Bound, which has a long history of supporting diverse middle and high school students in summer learning experiences, will support the creation of rich summer teaching opportunities for MAT teacher candidates. This project will enable research along several lines including challenges and opportunities afforded by the integration of coursework and experiences, the structure of the teaching, the learning of the teacher candidates, and the partnership of a MAT program and Science Bound, making important contributions to the field. 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.

该项目旨在通过在大学和州内建立伙伴关系，服务于培养高素质中等STEM教师的国家需求，以便在高需求的农村和城市社区任教。作为土地赠与大学，爱荷华州立大学(ISU)负责为爱荷华州的儿童及其多样化的需求提供服务。通过与教育和工程学教师的战略合作，以及国家认可的支持STEM领域第一代学生的计划，这一能力建设项目旨在重新设计教学文科硕士(MAT)，以吸引更多学生，并培养出更好地准备好服务于爱荷华州学生多样化需求的未来教师。拥有准备充分的STEM教师将支持学生的STEM知识库，并确保爱荷华州在日益科技的世界中成长为全球竞争对手。爱荷华州立大学的这个能力建设项目包括与Science Bound的合作伙伴关系，Science Bound是一个30多年来一直支持第一代大学生在STEM(加上农业)专业取得成功的组织。项目目标包括1)增加申请STEM毕业生成为中学数学和科学教师的12个月文科硕士课程(MAT)的人数和多样性；2)重新设计MAT课程，以加强教师候选人的文化能力，并将大学课程与有目的的教学经验相结合，为教师候选人提供应用所学知识的机会；以及3)定位ISU在2025年提交第二轨道Noyce提案。尽管研究已经确定了有前景的做法，但教师教育工作者和教师教育项目仍然在努力解决如何最好地教育候选教师，以便他们成为来自不同背景的学生进入这一职业时的强大教师。与支持不同初高中学生暑期学习体验的Science Bound合作，将支持为MAT教师候选人创造丰富的暑期教学机会。这个项目将使研究沿着几条线进行，包括课程和经验的整合带来的挑战和机会，教学结构，教师候选人的学习，以及MAT计划和科学领域的合作伙伴关系，为该领域做出重要贡献。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。