Building Capacity to Develop a Program for Future STEM Teachers within a Framework of Justice, Community, and Leadership

该项目旨在满足国家培养高质量STEM教师的能力建设需求。要做到这一点，它旨在制定与学院的司法，社区和领导力计划相一致的教师准备计划。该项目将收集制定一项计划所需的数据，以解决STEM教师教育中持续存在的国家和地区挑战。它将研究为高度贫困人口服务的学校中STEM教师的高流动率。 将检查有关有色人种和妇女在STEM教学中的代表性的数据。 此外，该项目将探讨STEM课程中的文化相关性和社会/环境正义联系。该学院将制定课程规划，旨在培养来自不同背景的STEM教师，他们将在城市高需求学校担任教师。玛丽学院的这一项目包括与Kalenvitz教育学院、科学学院和文科学院的内部合作伙伴关系，以及与Mount Diablo统一学区的合作伙伴关系，后者是一个高度需要的当地教育机构。该项目的长期目标是设计一个基于证据的，公平和社会正义相关的本科STEM教师准备计划，结合强大的STEM学科培训，中学教师教育，司法，社区和领导力研究，为学生准备在高需求的城市公立学校任教。该项目旨在培养获得STEM学科学位的个人同时获得教师证书的能力。该项目可以通过产生关于STEM学科，中学教育学和社会正义导向的教师教育的融合的新知识，为STEM教育领域做出贡献。这个能力建设项目是通过罗伯特诺伊斯教师奖学金计划（诺伊斯）的支持。诺伊斯计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人士成为有效的K-12 STEM教师和经验丰富的模范K-12 STEM教师，成为高需求学区的STEM硕士教师。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力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 project aims to serve the national need of building capacity to prepare high-quality STEM teachers. To do so, it seeks to develop a teacher preparation program aligned with the College’s Justice, Community, and Leadership Program. The project will collect data needed to develop a program that addresses persistent national and regional challenges in STEM teacher education. It will examine high STEM teacher turnover in schools that serve populations with high levels of poverty. Data about representation of people of color and women in STEM teaching will be examined. In addition, the project will explore cultural relevance and social/environmental justice connections in the STEM curriculum. The College will develop curricular programming with the aim of preparing STEM teachers from diverse backgrounds who persist as teachers in urban, high-need schools. This project at St. Mary’s College includes internal partnerships with the Kalmanovitz School of Education, School of Science, and School of Liberal Arts, and a partnership with the Mount Diablo Unified School District, a high-need local educational agency. The long-term goal of the project is to design an evidence-based, equity- and social justice-relevant undergraduate STEM teacher preparation program that combines robust STEM disciplinary training, secondary teacher education, and justice, community, and leadership studies to prepare students to teach in high-need, urban public schools. This project intends to build the capacity for individuals earning a degree in a STEM discipline to simultaneously earn teacher certification. This project may contribute to the STEM education field by generating new knowledge about the convergence of STEM disciplines, secondary pedagogy, and social justice-oriented teacher education. 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 STEM teachers to become STEM master teachers in high-need school districts. It also supports research on the persistence, retention, and effectiveness 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.