Community Alliance for STEM Teaching (CAST): Building Capacity for Recruiting and Preparing Future STEM Teachers through Community-based Research

在这个罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划能力建设项目中，迦太基学院教师教育计划和自然科学部提议与基诺沙联合学区（KUSD）建立伙伴关系，以鼓励和准备学院的顶尖STEM学生在高需求学校教授科学。该项目的成果将是一个新的跨学科课程组成部分，即STEM教学社区联盟（CAST），它可以吸引来自多个科学学科的专业，以社区为中心，旨在提高他们对STEM教学职业的兴趣。通过在规划中吸引各种代理人（教师、学生、高需求学校的管理人员以及大学教师和学生），该项目还将有助于加强合作伙伴之间的联系，因为他们探索了新的互动方式。该项目将与Root-Pike流域倡议网络、威斯康辛自然资源部、威斯康辛太空资助联盟和当地市政水处理设施等社区组织合作。该项目的几个方面引起了直接受众的共鸣，并提供了社区持续参与教师教育的承诺。开发一个引人注目的综合科学课程组成部分，并将其与职前教师教育联系起来，将大大提高迦太基教师教育计划在一个正在接受现代和改革后的以stem为重点的课程的社区中的知名度和吸引力。该项目的传播将通过社会媒体、网络展示、印刷活动和会议演示等传统机制进行，并通过在合作学校放置监测设备、参加社区论坛和城市会议讨论空气和水的监测研究，以及通过非正式的公共教育进行。

In this Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program capacity building project the Carthage College Teacher Education Program and the Division of Natural Sciences propose to develop a partnership with Kenosha Unified School District (KUSD) to encourage and prepare the college's top STEM students to teach science in high needs schools. The outcome of this project will be a new interdisciplinary curriculum component, the Community Alliance for STEM Teaching (CAST), that can engage majors from a number of science disciplines in a community centered effort designed to increase their interest in a STEM teaching career. By engaging a variety of agents (teachers, students, administrators from high needs schools as well as college faculty and students) in the planning, the project will also help strengthen ties between the partners as they explore new ways of interacting. The project will engage such community based organizations as the Root-Pike Watershed Initiative Network, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium, and local municipal water-treatment faciilties. Several aspects of the project resonate beyond the immediate audience and offer the promise of sustained community involvement in teacher education. Developing a high-profile curricular component in integrated sciences and linking it to pre-service teacher education will significantly enhance the visibility and appeal of the Carthage Teacher Education Program in a community that is embracing modern and reformed STEM-focused curricula. Dissemination of this project will occur through the traditional mechanisms of social media, web presence, print campaigns, and conference presentations, and through the physical presence of monitoring equipment in partner schools, attendance at community forums and city meetings to discuss the monitoring research on air and water, and through informal public education.