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，中小学少数民族教师的存在与少数民族学生的表现之间存在显着的正相关关系。这个问题对于加州学校至关重要，该州招收了大约 72% 的少数族裔学生，但只雇用了大约 29% 的少数族裔教师。圣玛丽山大学 (MSMU) 诺伊斯项目将满足 STEM 学科对高素质教师的需求，缩小少数族裔和女性的性别差距，并最终增加代表性不足的群体对 STEM 的参与。该计划的目标是让来自代表性不足群体、对 STEM 充满热情的低收入、高成就的第一代女性能够在南加州的初中和高中高需求学校从事教师职业。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，她们将同时获得教学证书。 MSMU 正在与洛杉矶联合学区 (LAUSD) 和洛杉矶地区其他高需求学校合作实施该项目。 项目活动包括密集的校内和校外招聘以及项目修改和附加项目，例如诺伊斯项目定向、在校园数学实验室和加州科学中心进行基于 STEM 的实习、支持性队列环境、持续的教师指导季度会议、用于增强学者课堂资源的小额赠款，以及结合数学、教育学和加州教师考试 (CSET) 准备的新课程。该计划的一个独特方面是为职前教师提供包容性和响应式教学 (CIRT) 证书的培训，这将使他们做好准备，为高需求学校的学生提供成功的学习体验。该项目将通过提供一个有效实践模型来招募、留住和培养 STEM 教育中特别缺乏的人群（来自少数群体和低收入背景的女性），从而为知识体系做出贡献。该项目旨在培养这些学生对数学和科学教学的更大兴趣的活动和策略将受到跟踪和评估。我们将特别关注吸引以前从未考虑过从事教师职业的高成就女性的策略。该项目的评估将仔细跟踪每个项目组成部分对学生的教学实践、满意度和职业坚持的影响。