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

该项目旨在满足国家培养合格STEM教师的能力建设需求，特别是为路易斯安那州新奥尔良市的高需求学区服务。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。虽然以迪拉德大学为中心，该项目包括与德尔加多社区学院和泽维尔大学的合作伙伴关系，以帮助规划和建设一个独特的多机构课程途径的能力。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从事K-12 STEM教学。该项目将建立一个强大的转移途径，从德尔加多社区学院，一个为期两年的城市机构，迪拉德大学，一个城市HBCU在新奥尔良，最后到泽维尔大学的硕士课程的教学证书的能力。项目目标包括：（1）对新奥尔良地区STEM教师教育的需求评估，（2）在三所机构和几所当地高需求学校之间建立强有力的伙伴关系，将在规划年确定，以及（3）设计新的STEM主要课程，提供专门的教师培训重点和文化适应性课程。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 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.