Building Up and Removing the Barriers to STEM Teaching in Virginia

该项目旨在满足全国对招聘、留住、培养和毕业高质量STEM教师的需求，特别是在弗吉尼亚州的城市公立学区。诺福克州立大学（NSU）是一所公立中型历史黑人学院/大学（HBCU），成立于1935年。在一份报告的指导下，在课堂上有一名黑人教师会增加黑人K-12学生上大学的兴趣，该项目旨在让更多的黑人教师进入STEM课堂。NSU在培养K-12教师在弗吉尼亚州汉普顿路社区工作和服务方面有着悠久的传统。在这个项目中，新大数学系和中等教育系将通过建设能力来加强这一传统，以实现获得一级奖学金和助学金的目标。新国立大学的这个项目深化了与诺福克公立学校的合作关系，旨在通过以下方式建立和消除STEM教学的障碍：(1)制定招聘和保留策略，(2)加强通往教师执照的现有基础设施，(3)让STEM教师参与促进K-12教学作为一种职业并支持未来的教师，(4)加强与当地学区的现有合作关系，以及总体而言，(5) Noyce轨道1项目的能力建设。这些目标将通过开展教学考试培训、对NSU STEM学生和当地学区进行需求评估、制定创新的“教授参与”计划来实现，该计划向STEM教师提供信息和参与。从该项目中吸取的经验教训不仅可以为STEM和教育界提供信息，还可以为其他努力为城市K-12教育事业提供有效贡献的机构提供信息。本能力建设项目由国家Robert Noyce教师奖学金项目支持，该项目支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人员成为有效的K-12 STEM教师，支持经验丰富的模范K-12教师成为高需求学区的STEM大师教师，并支持高需求学区K-12 STEM教师的有效性和保留研究。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。

The project aims to serve the national need of recruiting, retaining, preparing, and graduating high-quality STEM teachers, especially in urban public school districts in Virginia. Norfolk State University (NSU) is a public midsize Historically Black College/University (HBCU) founded in 1935. Guided by a report that having a Black teacher in a classroom increases Black K-12 students’ interest in attending college, the project aims to put more Black teachers in STEM classrooms. NSU has a long tradition of preparing K-12 teachers to work and serve in the Hampton Roads community in Virginia. In this project, the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Secondary Education of NSU will strengthen this tradition by building capacity towards the goal of securing a Track 1 Scholarships and Stipends grant.This project at NSU deepens a partnership with the Norfolk Public Schools and aims to build up, and remove barriers to, STEM teaching through (1) developing recruitment and retention strategies, (2) enhancing existing infrastructure for the path towards teacher licensure, (3) engaging STEM faculty in promoting K-12 teaching as a career and supporting prospective teachers, (4) strengthening its existing partnerships with local school districts, and overall, (5) building capacity for a Noyce Track 1 program. These goals will be achieved through developing training for teaching exams, performing needs assessments of NSU STEM students and local school districts, and instituting an innovative Involve-the-Professor program that informs and engages STEM faculty. Lessons learned from this project will serve to inform not only the STEM and education communities, but other institutions striving to provide effective contributions to the educational enterprise of urban K-12 teaching. This Capacity Building project is supported through the national Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program which 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, and 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.