Building Capacity by Strengthening Pathways and Recruitment Strategies for Future STEM Teachers through a Community College and University Partnership

该项目旨在满足国家能力建设的需要，以应对高需求学区，特别是STEM区教师短缺的挑战。这项建议的目的是开发从社区学院到大学主校园的明确路径，并了解学生对STEM和教师职业的看法，以更好地招聘和准备STEM教师。多纳安娜社区学院(DACC)和新墨西哥州立大学(NMSU)之间的预期合作将对建立可持续的STEM教育者途径至关重要。这些合作伙伴将共同创建实践，解决STEM本科生成为有效STEM教师所需的问题。为了实现这些目标，两所院校都将发展STEM学位集中，以支持未来Noyce Track 1的提案。此外，将利用数据分析来了解STEM学生在两所大学同时攻读STEM学科主修和辅修中等教育的兴趣，以制定Noyce学者的招聘计划。作为六个少数族裔占多数的州之一，新墨西哥州的学校环境展示了整个美国正在发生的复杂的教育、文化和经济挑战。NMSU位于美墨边境的三个学区内，只培养出少量的数学或科学职前教师，这一地区呼应了全国教师培养的下降趋势。与此同时，全州范围内都需要军事、航天和农业行业的STEM培训人员。多纳安娜社区学院的这个项目包括与新墨西哥州立大学的合作。项目目标包括开发教师教育途径，使STEM专业的学生能够学习辅修教育，并制定招聘计划。我们将利用关于拥有高水平教学内容和教学知识的教师的重要性的研究，并打算考虑到这两所学校的学生的人口结构，将我们的招聘计划的重点放在少数族裔学生的需求上。此外，我们将借鉴促进跨越组织边界的活动的协作方法，从而产生新的机构间规范。我们将通过调查研究收集学生对STEM教学兴趣水平的数据，以设计招聘计划。该项目将使这两个机构为教师做好准备，使他们能够在社会经济支持紧张的情况下，成功地让学生为STEM学习做好准备。本项目实施和记录的成功战略可作为类似机构复制的模式。这一能力建设项目的独立评价方法由西南外联学术研究评价和政策中心进行，既是形成性的，也是终结性的。项目成果将通过地方、州和国家会议传播。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 address the challenge of teacher shortages in high-need school districts particularly in STEM areas. The intention of this proposal is to develop clear pathways from the community college into the main university campus, and to develop an understanding of student perceptions about STEM and the teaching profession to better recruit and prepare STEM teachers. The intended collaboration between Dona Ana Community College (DACC) and New Mexico State University (NMSU) will be essential for building sustainable STEM educator pathways. These partners will work together to create practices that address what STEM undergraduates need to become effective STEM teachers. To accomplish these aims, both institutions will develop STEM degree concentrations to support a future Noyce Track 1 proposal. Additionally, data analysis aimed at understanding STEM student interest in simultaneously pursuing a major in a STEM discipline and a minor in Secondary Education at both institutions will be used to develop a recruitment plan for Noyce Scholars. As one of six minority-as-majority states, New Mexico’s schooling environment exhibits the complex educational, cultural, and economic challenges occurring throughout the United States. With NMSU located within three school districts along the US-Mexico border and producing only a small number of mathematics or science pre-service teachers, this region echos the national declining trend in teacher production. At the same time, there is a state-wide need for STEM prepared employees in military, space, and agriculturally based industries. This project at Dona Ana Community College includes a partnership with New Mexico State University. Project goals include the development of teacher education pathways that allow STEM majors to minor in Education, and the development of a recruitment plan. We will draw on research about the importance of teachers having high levels of content and pedagogical knowledge and intend on centering our recruitment plans on the needs of students from underrepresented minority groups given the demographics of the students at both institutions. Additionally, we will draw on approaches to collaboration that foster organizational boundary-spanning activities that lead to new inter-institutional norms. We will collect data from students through survey research about levels of interest in STEM teaching to design a recruitment plan. This project will allow both institutions to prepare teachers so they can successfully prepare their students for STEM learning despite strained socio-economic supports. Successful strategies implemented and documented from this project can be a model for replication at similar institutions. The independent evaluation approach for this capacity-building project, conducted by the Southwest Outreach Academic Research Evaluation and Policy Center, will be both formative and summative. Project outcomes will be disseminated through local, state, and national conferences. 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.