Building capacity to recruit future STEM teachers in Pennsylvania

该项目旨在满足国家增加有效中学STEM教师数量的需求。该项目将探索通过与两所当地高需求高中和一所当地社区学院合作，招募更多人从事STEM教学职业的模式。项目团队将研究高中双招生课程和从社区学院转学如何为STEM教学职业提供途径。来自各合作机构的高中和大学生将接受调查，以调查STEM教学职业的障碍和兴趣。该项目将探索招聘未来中学STEM教师的模式，这些模式可以为全国其他学院和大学提供信息。奥尔布赖特学院的这个项目包括与穆伦贝格高中、阅读高中、阅读地区社区学院和奥尔布赖特学院的科学研究所（SRI）的合作。总体项目目标是调查新的模式，以增加在奥尔布赖特学院追求中等STEM教育教师认证的STEM专业学生的数量。这将通过加强与当地高中的STEM教育合作伙伴关系，招募高中生在SRI进行STEM研究经验，并将双招生课程作为招聘工具来完成。此外，项目团队将与当地社区学院合作伙伴合作，以确定如何简化STEM转学学生在中学STEM教育中攻读联合专业的过程。此外，该项目将利用现有STEM专业的沉浸式教学经验作为招聘未来中学STEM教师的机制。所有项目工作将通过从高中，社区学院和奥尔布赖特学院学生收集的调查数据来了解，以调查学生追求STEM教学认证的兴趣和障碍。评估将由一个咨询委员会完成，该委员会由来自当地高中、社区学院以及奥尔布赖特各部门和项目的利益相关者组成。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。

The project aims to serve the national need of increasing the number of effective secondary STEM teachers. The project will explore models for recruiting more individuals to STEM teaching careers through partnerships with two local high-need high schools and a local community college. The project team will study how high school dual enrollment courses and transfer from the community college could provide pathways to STEM teaching careers. High school and college students from across partner institutions will be surveyed to investigate barriers and interests in STEM teaching careers. This project will explore models for recruiting future secondary STEM teachers that could inform other colleges and universities across the country. This project at Albright College includes partnerships with Muhlenberg High School, Reading High School, Reading Area Community College, and the Science Research Institute (SRI) at Albright College. The overarching project goal is to investigate new models for increasing the number of STEM majors who pursue secondary STEM education teacher certification at Albright College. This will be accomplished by strengthening STEM education partnerships with local high schools, recruiting high school students to STEM research experiences at SRI, and examining dual enrollment courses as a recruitment tool. Additionally, the project team will work with local community college partners to determine how to streamline the process for STEM transfer students to pursue a co-major in secondary STEM education. Further, the project will leverage current STEM majors’ immersive teaching experiences as a mechanism to recruit future secondary STEM teachers. All project efforts will be informed by survey data collected from high school, community college, and Albright College students to investigate interests in and barriers to students pursuing STEM teaching certification. Evaluation will be accomplished by an Advisory Board composed of stakeholders from local high schools, the community college, and across Albright departments and programs. 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 teachers to become STEM master teachers in high-need school districts. It also supports research on the 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.