Striving to Advance Teacher Education in STEM

密西西比州立大学（MSU）的Noyce能力建设项目旨在建立知识、社区和合作伙伴关系，以增加STEM教学招募的学生数量。它包括密歇根州立大学四个系和斯塔克维尔-奥克蒂贝哈联合学区的领导，以及肯塔基大学Track 1 Noyce项目的首席研究员的指导。该项目旨在分析招聘策略、项目保留障碍、教师候选人的人口统计数据以及留在STEM教室的STEM教师的特征。通过利用合作伙伴关系，该项目旨在扩大招聘工作，在密西西比州和大学课程中协调积极的教学信息，并为有兴趣成为数学和科学教师的工程、数学和科学专业的本科生提供指导。这种伙伴关系有可能使项目团队能够接触并招募更多的学生来接受STEM教师教育。通过对在职STEM教师（包括密歇根州立大学校友和其他高绩效教师）的研究，该项目旨在评估有助于保留STEM教师职业的程序性组成部分。该项目旨在增加招收STEM教学的学生数量，制定一项Noyce Track 1：奖学金和津贴提案，并为有效招收和留住STEM教育学生的文献做出贡献。该项目旨在收集有关密西西比州所面临的成功和挑战的基本信息，例如招收学生参加STEM教育，将这些学生留在STEM教师教育项目中，以及加强STEM教育中主要利益相关者的伙伴关系。这是密歇根州立大学课程、教学和特殊教育系、教育学院、艺术与科学学院、计算机科学与工程系以及斯塔克维尔-奥克蒂贝哈联合学区之间的一个合作能力建设项目。该项目旨在受益于与肯塔基大学现有的Noyce Track 1奖学金和津贴项目的指导关系。将这一努力与肯塔基大学的努力结合起来，可能会加强该计划，从而使更多的STEM本科专业学生获得教授数学、生物、化学、物理和计算机科学的执照。该项目将收集和分析所需的基线数据，以了解如何促进招聘和项目保留，从而获得STEM教师认证，同时加强现有合作伙伴关系，研究STEM教育的政策、战略和项目。通过该项目在密西西比州获得的新知识可以作为东南部大学以及全国其他大学增加STEM教师教育的典范。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

This Noyce Capacity Building project at Mississippi State University (MSU) aims to build the knowledge, community, and partnerships needed to increase the number of students recruited into STEM teaching. It includes leadership of four MSU departments and the Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District, as well as mentoring by the principle investigator of the University of Kentucky's Track 1 Noyce program. The project is designed to analyze recruitment strategies, barriers to program retention, teacher candidates' demographics, and the characteristics of STEM teachers who have remained in STEM classrooms. By leveraging partnerships, the project seeks to broaden recruitment efforts, align positive teaching messages across Mississippi and university courses, and develop mentoring for undergraduate students from engineering, math, and sciences interested in becoming math and science teachers. The partnerships have the potential to enable the project team to reach and recruit a broader group of students to pursue STEM teacher education. Through research with in-service STEM teachers, including MSU alumni and other high-performing teachers, the project seeks to evaluate programmatic components that contribute to retention in the STEM teacher profession. This project aims to increase the number of students recruited into STEM teaching, develop a Noyce Track 1: Scholarships and Stipends proposal, and contribute to the literature on effective recruitment and retention of STEM education students. The project intends to gather essential information on the successes and challenges faced in Mississippi, such as recruiting students into STEM education, retaining these students in STEM teacher education programs, and strengthening the partnerships of key stakeholder in STEM education. It is a collaborative Capacity Building project between MSU's Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education, College of Education, College of Arts and Sciences, and Department of Computer Science and Engineering, as well as Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District. The project is designed to benefit from a mentoring relationship with the existing University of Kentucky's Noyce Track 1 Scholarship and Stipends project. Coupling this effort with that of the University of Kentucky may strengthen the program, so that more undergraduate STEM majors gain licensure to teach mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, and, computer science. This project will gather and analyze baseline data needed to understand how to foster recruitment and program retention that leads to STEM teacher certification, while enhancing existing partnerships to study policies, strategies, and programs for STEM education. New knowledge gained in Mississippi via this project may serve as a model for increasing STEM teacher education in southeastern universities, as well as in other universities across the nation.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.