Building Capacity to Produce Culturally Competent STEM Teachers

通过Robert Noyce教师奖学金能力建设基金的资助，“培养具有文化能力的STEM教师的能力建设”项目将开发物理、化学、生物、数学和跨学科物理科学领域的中学教师培训课程。旨在培养科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域准备充分的高中教师的强大学位课程是国家的优先事项，它支撑着科学进步、国家卫生倡议的推进，以及在日益技术化的经济中实现国家的整体繁荣。将成功的STEM教师安置在高需求学区，并确保代表性不足的群体参与STEM领域至关重要。该Noyce项目将通过开发项目、课程和教学法来解决这一关键需求，这些项目将在STEM学科领域纳入有效的、基于研究的实践，并包括文化意识和社会正义方面的职前教师培训。由于该项目将由德克萨斯路德大学（TLU）领导，这是一所小型的西班牙裔文理学院，它将建立基础设施，培养训练有素的初中和高中STEM教师，为德克萨斯州中南部的农村高需求学区服务。科学、数学和教育教师之间的新合作，加上与德克萨斯州中南部高需求学区的教育伙伴关系的扩大，将成为该项目的基础。作为该项目制定STEM教师准备学位计划的一部分，天津外国语大学理科、数学和教育部门将建立合作关系。

Through funding support from a Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Capacity Building grant, the "Building Capacity to Produce Culturally Competent STEM Teachers" project will develop secondary teacher preparation programs in physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics and interdisciplinary physical sciences. Robust degree programs aimed at producing well-prepared high school teachers in fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are a national priority that underpin progress in science, the advancement of national health initiatives, and overall national prosperity in an increasingly technical economy. Placing successful STEM teachers in high-need school districts and ensuring the participation of underrepresented groups in STEM fields are essential. This Noyce project will address this critical need through developing programs, curriculum, and pedagogies that incorporate effective, research-based practices in STEM disciplinary fields and that include preservice teacher training in cultural awareness and social justice. Because this project will be led by Texas Lutheran University (TLU), a small Hispanic-serving liberal arts college, it will establish the infrastructure to produce uniquely trained middle and high school STEM teachers, prepared to serve in rural, high-need school districts in south central Texas. New collaborations among faculty in science, mathematics and education, coupled with expansion of education partnerships with south central Texas high-need school districts will serve as a foundation for the project. As a part of the project's efforts in developing the STEM teacher preparation degree plans, collaborations will be established between TLU science, mathematics and education departments.