Promoting STEM Education Access through Scholarships, Engineering Education Microcredentials, and a Community College Partnership

该项目旨在满足国家招聘，准备和支持7-12年级高效数学，科学和工程教育工作者的需求。该项目将继续并在先前努力的基础上，招募和支持本科数学和科学专业的学生，以获得职前教师教育证书。该项目将加强与一所社区学院的伙伴关系，以鼓励更多的学生将数学或科学教学作为一种职业，包括来自不同种族背景的学生。全国各地的初中和高中对工程的兴趣越来越大。为了回应这种兴趣，该项目将通过补充课程为学生提供工程教育经验，并有机会获得工程教育微证书。最后，该项目通过夏桥计划为新毕业生提供支持，该计划旨在鼓励第一年的教学准备，促进持续增长和合作网络。该项目在北方亚利桑那大学（NAU），包括与可可尼诺社区学院（CCC），弗拉格斯塔夫城市学区和Sinagua中学的合作。若干项目目标将指导调查人员今后5年的工作。首先是为30名数学/科学专业的本科生提供长达两年的奖学金，以获得教师资格证书。其次是支持与CCC的伙伴关系，以增加来自不同背景的潜在STEM专业的招聘。第三是每年支持多达48名学生（第一年后）参加工程教育微证书计划。第四个也是最后一个目标是通过一个夏桥计划为新毕业生提供支持，为他们第一年的教学做准备。所有这些努力都将有助于数学和科学教师的长期保留和成功，以有效地教育来自不同背景的学生，并通过在高需求地区纳入工程教育来提供扩展的STEM经验。吸引，发展和留住有效的科学和数学教师的计划效力将通过确定学者在多大程度上参与STEM招聘和教学/学习活动来衡量，例如工程教育微证书和夏桥计划，以及大学/社区学院合作伙伴关系在多大程度上扩大了数学/科学教学职业的参与。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。

This project aims to serve the national need for recruiting, preparing, and supporting highly effective mathematics, science, and engineering educators in grades 7-12. The project will continue and build on prior efforts to recruit and support undergraduate mathematics and science majors to pursue pre-service teacher education certification. The project will strengthen a partnership with a community college to encourage more students to consider mathematics or science teaching as a profession, including those from ethnically diverse backgrounds. There is increased interest in engineering at middle and high schools around the country. Responding to this interest, the project will provide students with experiences in engineering education through supplemental coursework and the opportunity to earn an engineering education microcredential. Finally, this project provides new graduates support via a summer bridge program designed to encourage first-year teaching readiness and promote continued growth and collaborative networking.This project at Northern Arizona University (NAU) includes a partnership with Coconino Community College (CCC), Flagstaff Urban School District, and Sinagua Middle School. Several project goals will guide the work of the investigators for the next 5 years. First is to provide 30 undergraduate mathematics/science majors with up to two years of scholarships to pursue teacher certification. Second is to support a partnership with CCC to increase recruitment of potential STEM majors from diverse backgrounds. Third is to support up to 48 students per year (after year 1) in an engineering education microcredential program. The fourth and final goal is to provide new graduates support in preparing for their first year of teaching through a summer bridge program. All of these efforts will contribute to the long-term retention and success of mathematics and science teachers to effectively educate students from diverse backgrounds and provide expanded STEM experiences through incorporation of engineering education in high-need districts. Program efficacy for attracting, developing, and retaining effective science and mathematics teachers will be measured by determining to what extent scholars participate in STEM recruitment and teaching/learning activities, such as the engineering education microcredential and summer bridge programs, and to what extent the university/community college partnership broadens participation in the mathematics/science teaching careers. 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 teacher 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.