Striking a STEM Teacher Pipeline: A Capacity Building Project

该项目旨在满足国家能力建设的需要，以制定有效的战略，在高需求的学校招聘和留住数学教师。该项目旨在加强，重新设想和发展大学教师和高需求学区之间的伙伴关系，以构建针对数学教育的必要教育管道。 要使用的一个关键战略依赖于这些伙伴关系的机会，以建立学生的兴趣，在中学数学教学的高需求的学校，并最终招收参与者在学士/硕士课程的途径，中学数学教学。基于基于标准的教学和对文化敏感的教学原则，学士/硕士课程途径将侧重于最能满足高需求学校教学复杂需求的教学实践考试。最终，这一途径可以通过培养经过认证的、具有文化敏感性的教师，为高需求学校及其当地社区做出积极贡献。佛罗里达农业和机械大学（FAMU）的这一项目包括与三个高需求学区的合作：FAMU发展研究学校K-12，加兹登县学区和杰斐逊县学校K-12。项目目标包括：1）进行需求评估，以更好地了解在邻近的高需求学校的优势和挑战，通过参与中学生，教师和管理人员，干本科专业，并在FAMU教师; 2）加强FAMU和邻近的高需求学校之间的伙伴关系，共同调查和共同设计有效的模式，纳入学士/硕士课程途径; 3）加强FAMU教师之间的合作，以建立大学教师的能力，提供支持副数学教师学习的指导和经验; 4）共同设计，与FAMU教师和邻近的高需求学区，教学任务和实地临床经验，纳入学士/硕士课程途径5）提高机构知识的方法招聘，准备，为高需求的学校保留STEM教师;以及6）系统地确定项目的成功，影响，挑战和成果，以制定更全面的项目来支持中学数学教师候选人。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 address effective strategies for recruiting and retaining mathematics teachers in high-need schools. The project aspires to strengthen, re-imagine, and develop partnerships between university faculty and high-need school districts to structure necessary educational pipelines specific to mathematics education. A key strategy to be used relies on these partnerships for opportunities to establish students’ interest in teaching secondary mathematics at high-need schools and eventually enroll participants in a Bachelor’s/Master’s curricular pathway to secondary mathematics teaching. Founded on standards-based instruction and tenets of culturally responsive teaching, the Bachelor’s/Master’s curricular pathway will focus on examinations of instructional practices that best address the complex demands of teaching in high-need schools. Ultimately, the pathway could make positive contributions to high-need schools and their local communities by developing certified, culturally responsive teachers with this unique preparation.This project at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) includes partnerships with three high-need school districts: FAMU Developmental Research School K-12, Gadsden County School District and Jefferson County Schools K-12. Project goals include: 1) conducting a needs assessment to better understand strengths and challenges at neighboring high-need schools by engaging secondary students, teachers, and administrators, STEM undergraduate majors, and faculty at FAMU; 2) strengthening partnerships between FAMU and neighboring high-need schools to co-investigate and co-design effective models to incorporate into a Bachelor’s/Master’s curricular pathway; 3) enhancing collaborations among FAMU faculty to build the capacity of university faculty members to offer instruction and experiences that support preservice mathematics teachers’ learning; 4) co-designing, with FAMU faculty and neighboring high-need school districts, instructional tasks and field clinical experiences for incorporation in a Bachelor’s/Master’s curricular pathway 5) enhancing institutional knowledge of methodologies for recruitment, preparation, and retention of STEM teachers for high-need schools; and 6) systematically identifying project successes, impacts, challenges, and outcomes to develop a more comprehensive project to support secondary mathematics teacher candidates. 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.