Developing STEM Teachers Across Rural Schools: Using STEM Outreach Programs to Build and Strengthen Identity as STEM Teachers

该项目旨在满足国家在STEM学科培养高质量教师的需求，这在科罗拉多南部农村地区尤为严重。亚当斯州立大学的项目将研究基于地方的高影响力经验和出勤成本奖学金对在高需求学校培养有效的STEM教师的影响。利用天文学和农村黑暗天空的兴奋，协作数学和科学界，STEM星期六和移民学生暑期学院，该项目旨在激励未来和实践教师开发STEM教学和学习的新方法，并激发P-20对K-12 STEM教育职业的热情。这种模式有可能增加学生完成STEM学位与教学许可证的数量从一个单一的亚当斯国家学生到每年八个。提高农村教师中服务不足群体的代表性，以改善有色人种和低收入学生获得STEM教育和职业的公平性，是一项优先成果。这个项目在亚当斯州立大学，一个西班牙裔服务机构，包括与五个高需求的当地学区和合作教育服务的圣路易斯山谷委员会的伙伴关系，以解决整个农村圣路易斯山谷干教师的需求。项目目标包括实施以天文学为主题的活动，实践研讨会，指导和其他合作STEM编程，以吸引未来的教师作为创新者和领导者。这些高影响力的经验和年度奖学金旨在激励31个本科STEM专业（例如，在数学，物理，化学，生物学和地球科学）和学士学位后完成学位和教师执照在4年。让K-12学生和未来的教师与当地资产，如亚利桑那州立大学的天文馆和天文台以及大沙丘国家公园的黑暗天空，有可能吸引和留住学生，因为他们培养了他们对STEM研究和教学的热情。该项目的研究问题集中在这个有意的P-20 STEM生态系统的影响当地资源和支持性活动，旨在验证学生对STEM的关注，并培养他们作为有效教师，领导者和未来导师的身份在高需求地区工作。这一试点工作将产生关于STEM教育中学生身份发展的知识，并为缩小少数民族和种族与女性在STEM领域的代表性差距提供更多证据。成功的战略将提供一个模式，其他拉美裔服务机构和学区可以复制。一名评价员将审查机构和调查数据，以监测实现目标的进展情况，并通报改进情况。亚利桑那州立大学将通过其网站、区域教育家通讯、会议和期刊出版物传播研究结果。这个轨道1：奖学金和津贴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 for preparing high-quality teachers in STEM disciplines, which is particularly severe in rural southern Colorado. Adams State University’s project will examine the effects of place-based high-impact experiences and cost-of-attendance scholarships on developing effective STEM teachers in high-need schools. Using the excitement of astronomy and rural dark skies, collaborative math and science circles, STEM Saturdays, and a summer academy for migrant students, this project aims to inspire prospective and practicing teachers to develop new approaches in STEM teaching and learning and generate P-20 enthusiasm for careers in K-12 STEM education. This model has the potential to increase the number of students completing STEM degrees with teaching licensure from a single Adams State student to eight per year. Increased representation of underserved groups among rural teachers to improve equity in access to STEM education and careers for students of color and those who are low-income is a priority outcome. This project at Adams State University, a Hispanic-Serving Institution, includes partnerships with five high-need local school districts and the San Luis Valley Board of Cooperative Educational Services to address the need for STEM teachers across the rural San Luis Valley. Project goals include implementing astronomy-themed activities, hands-on workshops, mentoring, and other collaborative STEM programming to engage prospective teachers as innovators and leaders. These high-impact experiences and annual scholarships aim to inspire 31 undergraduate STEM majors (e.g., in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and geosciences) and post-baccalaureates to complete degrees and teaching licensure in 4 years. Engaging K-12 students and prospective teachers with local assets, such as ASU’s planetarium and observatory and the dark skies of Great Sand Dunes National Park, have the potential to attract and retain students as they develop their passion for STEM studies and teaching. The project’s research questions focus on the impacts of this intentional P-20 STEM ecosystem of local resources and supportive activities, which aim to validate students’ focus on STEM and grow their identities as effective teachers, leaders, and future mentors working in high-need districts. This pilot effort will generate knowledge on identity development of students in STEM education and add to the evidence on closing gaps in the representation of ethnic and racial minorities and females in STEM fields. Successful strategies will provide a model that other Hispanic-Serving Institutions and school districts may replicate. An evaluator will review institutional and survey data to monitor progress in objectives attainment and inform improvements. ASU will disseminate findings via its website, a regional educator newsletter, conferences, and journal publication. This Track 1: Scholarships and Stipends 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.