Preparing Highly Qualified Women STEM Majors to Become Successful Teachers

培养高素质 STEM 专业女性成为成功教师

• 批准号: 1557211
• 负责人: Carol Johnston
• 金额: $ 118.3万
• 依托单位: Mount Saint Mary's University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-07-01 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1557211&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Preparing; Highly; Qualified; Women; STEM

Studies show that there is a significant positive relationship between the presence of minority teachers in primary and secondary schools, and minority student performance. This issue is critically important to California schools, which enroll about 72% minority students but only employ about 29% minority teachers. Mount Saint Mary's University (MSMU) Noyce program will address the need for highly qualified teachers in the STEM disciplines, decrease the minority and female gender gap, and ultimately increase underrepresented groups participation in STEM. The goal of the program is to enable low-income, high-achieving, first generation women from underrepresented groups who have a passion for STEM to pursue teaching careers in middle and secondary high-need schools in Southern California. This program will recruit, prepare and support 17 women majoring in mathematics, biochemistry, biological sciences, or chemistry, who will concurrently pursue a teaching credential. MSMU is implementing the project in collaboration with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and other high-need schools in the Los Angeles area. Project activities include intensive on- and off-campus recruitment as well as program modifications and add-ons, such as Noyce program orientation, STEM-based internships with the campus Math Lab and the California Science Center, a supportive cohort environment, continuing faculty mentoring and quarterly meetings, mini-grants to enhance scholars' classroom resources, and a new course that combines mathematics, pedagogy and California Subject Examinations for Teachers (CSET) preparation. A unique aspect of the program will be training that will provide the pre-service teacher with a certificate in inclusive and responsive teaching (CIRT), which will prepare them to provide successful learning experiences for students in high need schools. The project will contribute to the body of knowledge by providing a model of effective practices in recruiting, retaining, and preparing a population that is especially absent in STEM education -- women from minority and low-income backgrounds. The project's activities and strategies for fostering greater interest in teaching mathematics and science among these students will be tracked and evaluated. Particular attention will be paid to strategies for attracting high-achieving women who have not previously considered a career in teaching. The evaluation of the project will carefully track the impact of each program component on the students' teaching practice, satisfaction and persistence in the profession.

研究表明，少数族裔教师在中小学中的存在与少数族裔学生的绩效之间存在显着的积极关系。对于加利福尼亚学校来说，这个问题至关重要，加州学校约有72％的少数民族学生，但仅雇用约29％的少数民族教师。圣玛丽山大学（MSMU）NOYCE计划将满足STEM学科中高素质教师的需求，减少少数群体和女性性别差距，并最终增加代表性不足的团体参与STEM。该计划的目的是使来自代表性不足的团体的低收入，高成就的第一代女性对STEM充满热情，他们热衷于STEM在南加州的中间和中等高需求的学校从事教学职业。该计划将招募，准备和支持17名数学，生物化学，生物科学或化学专业的女性，她们将同时追求教学证书。 MSMU正在与洛杉矶统一学区（LAUSD）和洛杉矶地区的其他高需求学校合作实施该项目。 项目活动包括密集的校园和校外招聘以及计划的修改和附加组件，例如NOYCE计划取向，基于STEM的实习，与校园数学实验室和加利福尼亚科学中心，一个支持性的队列环境，持续的教师指导和教师指导和季度会议，以增强Scholars教师的课堂资源，并为Scholars的课堂资源和访问者提供新的数学学会，以使其成为数学的习惯，使得数学学院的数学学会，组合，组合，组合，组合，组合，组合学会， （CSET）准备。该计划的一个独特方面将是培训，该培训将为职前教师提供包容性和响应式教学证书（CIRT），这将使他们准备为高需求学校中的学生提供成功的学习经验。该项目将通过提供有效的实践模型来招募，保留和准备尤其是在STEM教育中不存在的人群（来自少数族裔和低收入背景的妇女），从而为知识体系做出贡献。将跟踪和评估该项目的活动和策略，以促进这些学生对数学和科学的更大兴趣。将特别注意吸引以前从未考虑过教学职业的高成就女性的策略。对项目的评估将仔细跟踪每个计划组成部分对学生在专业中的教学实践，满意度和持久性的影响。