Building a Culturally-Competent STEM Teacher Workforce in Northeast Ohio

该项目旨在满足当地、地区和国家的需求，在K-12学校招募、培训和毕业更多的STEM教育工作者，并确保这些学生接受必要的培训，以便在多样化的课堂上取得成功。为了满足这些需求并建立实施诺伊斯计划所需的能力，鲍德温华莱士大学将开发一个新的STEM锚定教育计划;与地区K-12学校和社区学院建立更强大的招生渠道，包括创建一个新的双招生计划，重点是STEM教育;并提高学生在文化能力实践（CCP）中接受的培训质量，以更好地为毕业生做好准备，成为STEM教育工作者。 鲍德温华莱士大学（BWU）的这个项目包括与克利夫兰大都会学区、费尔维尤公园市学区、凯霍加社区学院和洛兰县社区学院的合作。该项目的目标是：（1）设计和启动一个新的STEM教育学士学位课程，将生物学或数学专业与满足俄亥俄州教师执照要求所需的课程结合起来;（2）提高教育和STEM教师的知识和能力，将使用文化能力实践的教学纳入课程;（3）通过建立STEM教育计划的招生渠道，加强与地区高中的现有合作关系;（4）加强与地区社区学院的现有合作关系，重点是在STEM教育计划中招收转学生。这些活动将提高BWU的能力，以满足日益增长的地方，区域和国家需要额外的，训练有素的，文化能力的STEM教育工作者。此外，作为最终轨道1提案的一部分，项目负责人将研究如何将文化能力实践融入课程，以拓宽年轻STEM教育工作者的视野并提高他们的适应力。方案评价将依靠对项目小组和合作伙伴的访谈，以确定对拟议项目活动的忠诚度以及这些活动实现拟议产出的程度。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 STEM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智力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 local, regional, and national needs of recruiting, training, and graduating more STEM educators in K-12 schools and ensuring those students have the training necessary to succeed in diverse classrooms. To address these needs and build the capacity necessary to implement a Noyce program, Baldwin Wallace University will develop a new STEM-anchored education program; establish stronger recruitment pipelines for that program with area K–12 schools and community colleges, including the creation of a new dual enrollment program focused on STEM education; and improve the quality of training that students receive in culturally competent practices (CCP) to better prepare graduates to succeed as STEM educators. This project at Baldwin Wallace University (BWU) includes partnerships with Cleveland Metropolitan School District, Fairview Park City School District, Cuyahoga Community College, and Lorain County Community College. The project objectives are to (1) design and launch a new STEM education bachelor’s program that couples a major in biology or mathematics with the courses necessary to meet the teacher licensure requirements in the State of Ohio; (2) improve the education and STEM faculty’s knowledge of and capacity to integrate instruction in the use of culturally competent practices into the curriculum; (3) strengthen existing partnerships with area high schools by establishing a recruitment pipeline into the STEM education program; and (4) strengthen existing partnerships with area community colleges with a focus on recruiting transfer students in the STEM education program. These activities will improve BWU’s capacity to meet the growing local, regional, and national need for additional, well-trained, culturally competent STEM educators. Additionally, as part of the eventual Track 1 proposal, the project leaders will study how the integration of culturally competent practices into the curriculum might broaden the perspectives of and increase the resilience of young STEM educators. The program evaluation will rely on interviews of the project team and partners to establish the fidelity to proposed project activities and the extent to which those activities achieved the proposed outputs. 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 STEM teachers to become STEM master teachers in high-need school districts. It also supports research on the persistence, 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.