Capacity Building: Creating and Sustaining a Pathway for Engineering Majors to Become STEM Teachers

该项目旨在满足国家对为工科学生在高需求学校成为6-12年级STEM教师的道路的需求。该项目将制定一个框架，专门为工科学生成为STEM教师而招聘、保留和重塑研究生教师资格证书。这项努力是工程学院和北德克萨斯大学教育学院的合作，北得克萨斯大学是一家拉美裔服务机构。该项目将通过调查和焦点小组从工程专业的学生和顾问那里收集关于STEM教学的兴趣和职业障碍的证据。此外，利益相关者将在STEM教师教育的当前研究背景下协作分析这一证据，并对毕业后教师入职计划进行示范。预计的结果是制定招聘计划，确定工程专业的学生，然后带领他们成为STEM教师。此外，项目的成果还包括为毕业后工程学专业学生设计可持续的教师入职计划，这是当地合作学区和大学合作的结果。北得克萨斯大学的这个项目包括与该地区六个高需求学区的合作伙伴关系，包括阿莱多、格拉文-科利维尔、梅斯奎特、普莱诺、罗斯科大学和谢尔曼独立学区。该项目的智力价值是建立、加强并维持与当地高需求学区的伙伴关系，在这些学区，工程专业毕业生可以在6-12年级的STEM教学中追求职业生涯。该项目更广泛的影响在于，它有可能成为通过研究生教师认证计划招聘和留住工科学生担任STEM教师的典范。评估将评估该项目的模式、规划和实施过程，以及未来Noyce Track 2提案的可能性。传播包括介绍和发布由此产生的框架和方案设计，包括地方和国家。该能力建设项目由罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金项目提供支持。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教师的有效性和留住的研究。这一奖项反映了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。

The project aims to serve a national need for building pathways for engineering students to become grade 6-12 STEM teachers in high-need schools. The project will develop a framework for recruitment, retention, and reshaping of graduate teacher certification specifically for engineering students to become STEM teachers. The effort is a collaboration between the College of Engineering and the College of Education at the University of North Texas, a Hispanic Serving Institution. The project will collect evidence from engineering majors and advisors about interests in and barriers to careers in STEM teaching through surveys and focus groups. Additionally, stakeholders will collaboratively analyze this evidence in the context of current research on STEM teacher education and model post-baccalaureate teacher induction programs. The expected outcomes are to develop recruitment plans that will identify engineering majors and then lead them to become STEM teachers. Additionally, outcomes will include designs for a sustainable teacher induction program for post-baccalaureate engineering majors that results from collaboration between local partner school districts and the university.This project at the University of North Texas includes partnerships with six high-need school districts in the region, including Aledo, Grapevine-Colleyville, Mesquite, Plano, Roscoe Collegiate, and Sherman Independent School Districts. The intellectual merit of the project is to build, strengthen, and sustain partnerships with local high-need school districts where engineering graduates can pursue careers in grade 6-12 STEM teaching. The broader impact of this project lies in its potential to become a model for recruiting and retaining engineering students as STEM teachers through post-graduate teacher certification programs. The evaluation will assess the project's model, its planning and implementation processes, and the potential for a for a future Noyce Track 2 proposal. Dissemination includes presentation and publication of the resulting framework and program designs locally and nationally. This Capacity Building project is supported through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program. The Noyce program supports talented STEM undergraduate majors and professionals to become effective K-12 STEM teachers and experienced, exemplary K-12 teachers to become STEM master teachers in high-need school districts. It also supports research on the effectiveness and retention 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.