Building Capacity to Close the Loop: From High School STEM Student to High School STEM Teacher

该项目旨在满足国家在招聘、准备和支持认证STEM教师方面的能力建设需要，同时注重增加认证少数民族STEM教师的数量。考虑到目前缺乏合格的少数民族STEM教师，K-12学生人口结构不断变化，以及与他们所教学生人口结构相似的教师的积极影响，这一问题非常重要。该项目旨在创造一条途径，通过培养将在他们毕业的同一所或类似高中任教的STEM教师，来结束从高中STEM学生到高中STEM教师的循环。它还包括收集基线数据以确定招聘STEM专业学生成为STEM教师的需求、兴趣和能力的计划。该项目的预期成果是：(1)从合作的大学早期高中招收学生的计划；(2)通过学习社区为这些学生做好准备的模式；以及(3)支持这些学生返回高中任教的综合计划的计划。预计这项工作将在合作的高需求教育机构内建立一个可复制的模式。这个在草原景观农工大学的项目，历史上是一所黑人大学，包括与奥尔丁独立学区、休斯顿独立学区、皇家独立学区和谢尔顿独立学区的合作。项目目标包括：(1)开发基于证据的创新战略，以招聘、准备和支持来自高需求地方教育机构的候选人，并与现有的大学预科高中合作，以增加德克萨斯州STEM教师队伍的多样性；(2)通过历史悠久的黑人大学的学习社区，提高对招聘、准备和支持高需求教育机构新STEM教师的模式和战略的知识和了解。该项目有可能使社会受益，因为它建立了必要的基础设施，以便执行未来的Noyce Track 1建议，鼓励代表人数不足的少数群体充分参与STEM。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 STEM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教师的持久性、保留率和有效性的研究。该奖项反映了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。

This project aims to serve the national need of building capacity to recruit, prepare, and support certified STEM teachers, with attention to increasing the number of certified minority STEM teachers. This problem is important given the existing shortage of qualified minority STEM teachers, the changing demographics of the K-12 student population, and the positive impacts of teachers’ with similar demographics as the students they teach. The project intends to create a pathway to close the loop from high school STEM students to high school STEM teachers, by preparing STEM teachers who will teach in the same or a similar high school from which they graduated. It also includes plans for collecting baseline data to determine need, interest, and capacity for recruiting STEM majors to become STEM teachers. The expected outcomes of the project are: (1) a plan to recruit students from partnering Early College High Schools; (2) a model for preparing these students via learning communities; and (3) a plan for a comprehensive program to support this students as they return to teach in their high schools. It is expected this work will establish a replicable model within the partnering high-need educational agencies.This project at Prairie View A&M University, a Historically Black University, includes partnerships with Aldine Independent School District, Houston Independent School District, Royal Independent School District, and Sheldon Independent School District. Project goals include: (1) developing evidence-based, innovative strategies to recruit, prepare, and support candidates from high-need local educational agencies with existing Early College High Schools to increase the diversity of the pool of STEM teachers in Texas; and (2) advancing knowledge and understanding of models and strategies for recruiting, preparing, and supporting new STEM teachers in high-need educational agencies through learning communities at a historically black university. The project has the potential to benefit society by establishing the necessary infrastructure for implementing a future Noyce Track 1 proposal to encourage the full participation of underrepresented minority groups in STEM. 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.