Recruiting and Preparing STEM Majors as Secondary Teachers for High-Need School Districts in New Jersey

为新泽西州高需求学区招募和培养 STEM 专业的中学教师

• 批准号: 1557358
• 负责人: Beimnet Teclezghi
• 金额: $ 144.47万
• 依托单位: New Jersey City 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 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1557358&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Recruiting; Preparing; STEM; Majors; Secondary

The need for teachers of STEM disciplines with considerable depth of content and pedagogical skill, as well as strategies for engaging students from diverse backgrounds to achieve success, is well documented. This project, in which the New Jersey City University (NJCU) engages Hudson County Community College, Bergen Community College, and Middlesex County College, will recruit, prepare, and support a minimum of 20 undergraduate STEM majors in their junior and senior year and 7 STEM professionals who are committed to teach in high-need school districts. The Noyce scholars will be supported by an organized program of supplemental instruction, hands-on experiential learning, mentoring, social and academic networking, professional development, and community building activities that will enhance and strengthen the content and pedagogical knowledge of the scholarship recipients, provide them with a skill set to serve students from diverse backgrounds, and increase the retention of these highly qualified teachers in high-need districts. As a minority serving institution, NJCU is well-positioned to prepare individuals from groups underrepresented in STEM to become teachers. This will provide role models to classrooms with diverse students and will strengthen the teaching and learning of STEM courses in high-need school districts.The project will have multi-layered recruitment efforts that target several groups of potential students: NJCU STEM majors, community college STEM majors, and undecided majors. Recruitment will start early when freshman and sophomore students are offered summer internships to expose them to what it means to teach STEM. Community college STEM majors will be recruited through partnerships with three local community colleges. Participation in early field experience and mentoring by NJCU faculty and K-12 teachers will provide Noyce Scholars with a strong foundation for developing their pedagogical and discipline specific knowledge. In addition to providing opportunities for learning from experts in the different STEM and education fields, the project will develop communities of practice among the different cohorts of Noyce scholars through workshops which create a venue for interaction of the pre-service scholarship recipients learning from and with the in-service scholarship recipients. Noyce Scholars as professionals will have the opportunity to participate in regional and national educational conferences and site visits to high-need schools, further engaging them in authentic teaching-related experience. Noyce Scholars will continue their development during their student teaching course in which they will at one point take full responsibility for a classroom. They will benefit from three different types of mentors: STEM faculty mentors, Education faculty mentors, and in-service teacher mentors. In order to affect persistence of the Noyce Scholars as effective teachers in high-need school districts, the project will provide professional development activities offered by the NJCU College of Education through the first four years of the last cohort of Noyce Scholars' teaching careers. Ultimately, New Jersey public schools will benefit from 27 new committed, confident, and well-prepared STEM teachers who have a major in a STEM discipline and who are equipped with pedagogical approaches specifically designed to provide learning experiences to students from diverse backgrounds which lead to success.

STEM 学科教师需要具有相当深度的内容和教学技能，以及吸引来自不同背景的学生取得成功的策略，这是有据可查的。 该项目由新泽西城市大学 (NJCU) 与哈德逊县社区学院、卑尔根社区学院和米德尔塞克斯县学院合作，将招募、准备和支持至少 20 名大三和大四的 STEM 专业本科生以及 7 名学生。致力于在高需求学区教学的 STEM 专业人士。 诺伊斯学者将得到有组织的补充指导、实践体验式学习、指导、社交和学术网络、专业发展和社区建设活动计划的支持，这些活动将增强和加强奖学金获得者的内容和教学知识，提供使他们具备为来自不同背景的学生提供服务的技能，并增加高需求地区这些高素质教师的保留率。 作为一所少数族裔服务机构，NJCU 处于有利地位，可以帮助 STEM 中代表性不足的群体中的个人成为教师。 这将为多元化学生的课堂提供榜样，并加强高需求学区 STEM 课程的教学。该项目将针对多个潜在学生群体进行多层次的招生工作：NJCU STEM 专业、社区学院STEM 专业和未定专业。招聘工作将提前开始，为一年级和二年级学生提供暑期实习机会，让他们了解 STEM 教学的意义。 社区大学 STEM 专业的学生将通过与三所当地社区大学的合作来招募。参与早期的现场经验以及新泽西大学教师和 K-12 教师的指导将为诺伊斯学者提供坚实的基础，以发展他们的教学和学科特定知识。除了提供向不同 STEM 和教育领域的专家学习的机会外，该项目还将通过研讨会在不同的诺伊斯学者群体中建立实践社区，为职前奖学金获得者提供一个相互学习和交流的场所。在职奖学金获得者。诺伊斯学者作为专业人士将有机会参加地区和国家教育会议以及对高需求学校的实地考察，进一步让他们获得真实的教学相关经验。诺伊斯学者将在学生教学课程中继续发展，他们将在某一时刻对课堂承担全部责任。 他们将受益于三种不同类型的导师：STEM 教师导师、教育教师导师和在职教师导师。 为了影响诺伊斯学者在高需求学区继续担任高效教师，该项目将在最后一批诺伊斯学者教学生涯的前四年提供由新泽西州大学教育学院提供的专业发展活动。 最终，新泽西州公立学校将受益于 27 名新的忠诚、自信、准备充分的 STEM 教师，他们主修 STEM 学科，并配备专门为来自不同背景的学生提供学习体验的教学方法，从而使他们能够成功。