Building a Partnership in New Orleans: Paving the Way for STEM Teachers

该项目旨在满足国家能力建设的需要，以培养合格的STEM教师，特别是为路易斯安那州新奥尔良的高需求学区服务。该项目将致力于开发一个创新的本科学位和执照计划，以满足以下基础学科的STEM教师需求：生物/生命科学、化学、数学、计算机科学和物理。该项目以迪拉德大学为中心，包括与德尔加多社区学院和泽维尔大学的合作伙伴关系，以帮助规划和建设能力，走出一条独特的多机构课程之路。这条途径可以鼓励和支持有才华的、多样化的学生在当地高需求学区继续从事K-12 STEM教学。该项目将建立一个强大的转学途径，从德尔加多社区学院(一所两年制的城市机构)到迪拉德大学(位于新奥尔良的城市HBCU)，最后到泽维尔大学的硕士课程，以获得教学证书。项目目标包括：(1)对新奥尔良地区的STEM师范教育进行需求评估；(2)在规划年确定的三个机构与当地几所高需求学校之间建立强有力的合作伙伴关系；(3)设计新的STEM主修课程，强调教师培训的专业性和适应文化的课程设置。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 the national need of building capacity to prepare well-qualified STEM teachers, particularly to serve high-need school districts in New Orleans, Louisiana. This project will work toward developing an innovative undergraduate degree and licensure program to address STEM teacher needs in the following foundational disciplines: Biology/Life Sciences, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics. While centered at Dillard University, the project includes partnerships with Delgado Community College and Xavier University to help plan and build capacity toward a distinctive multi-institutional curricular pathway. This pathway could encourage and support talented, diverse students to pursue K-12 STEM teaching in local high-need school districts. The project will establish capacity for a strong transfer pathway from Delgado Community College, a two-year urban institution, to Dillard University, an urban HBCU in New Orleans, and finally to Xavier University’s master's program for a teaching certificate. The project goals include: (1) a needs assessment for STEM teacher education in the New Orleans area, (2) the establishment of strong partnerships between the three institutions and several local high-need schools, to be identified in the planning year, and (3) the design of new STEM major courses offering a specialized teacher training emphasis and culturally responsive curriculum. 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 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.