Blazing the Trail for STEM Teachers: A Noyce Capacity Building Project

为 STEM 教师开辟道路：诺伊斯能力建设项目

基本信息

批准号：
1758227
负责人：
Kelly Demers
金额：
$ 7.48万
依托单位：
Saint Anselm College
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-07-01 至 2020-05-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1758227&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Blazing Trail STEM Teachers Noyce

项目摘要

The "Blazing the Trail for STEM Teachers: A Noyce Capacity Building Project" aims to address the demand for qualified STEM teachers in the high-need school district of Manchester, New Hampshire. The long-term goal of the project team is to create a comprehensive program at Saint Anselm College (SAC) that will recruit, prepare, and support an increased number of STEM majors skilled at teaching in high-needs urban schools. This goal is relevant to resolving the critical shortage of qualified secondary STEM teachers in Manchester and across New Hampshire. In this project, the PI and Co-PI will work with other members of the SAC community to determine whether an innovative semester-long after-school teaching experience is effective for recruiting SAC STEM majors to pursue a joint degree in education. This project will lay the foundation for a future Noyce Teacher Scholarships and Stipends (Track 1) proposal.The project has three primary goals: (1) gauge the interest of STEM majors in STEM teaching as a profession; (2) improve the perception of STEM students and faculty regarding a teaching career; and (3) increase the number of STEM students pursuing a joint education degree and a degree in a STEM discipline. The project will be driven by two interrelated objectives: (1) determine whether a semester-long after-school teaching experience can attract STEM majors to consider a career in teaching; and (2) identify the root cause(s) of the current low interest in STEM education, so that interventions can be designed. Research approaches include assessment of STEM major interest via the STEM Career Interest Survey (STEM-CIS) taken by all first year SAC STEM majors. Attitudes about urban schools and students will be measured with a pre-/post-questionnaire and an exit interview. The interest in STEM education across campus will be measured with a survey developed by the project team, the "STEM Faculty Attitudes about Teaching as a Career Survey." This project will expand the Noyce portfolio by adding the perspective of a small, urban, liberal-arts college and by impacting Manchester, NH, a community with a large refugee population.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.

“为STEM教师的小径开拓：一个Noyce能力建设项目”旨在满足新罕布什尔州曼彻斯特高需求学区合格STEM教师的需求。项目团队的长期目标是在圣安塞尔姆学院（SAC）创建一个全面的计划，该计划将招募，准备和支持越来越多的STEM专业熟练的STEM专业，从而在高需求的城市学校教学。这个目标与解决曼彻斯特和整个新罕布什尔州合格的二级教师的严重短缺有关。在该项目中，PI和Co-Pi将与SAC社区的其他成员合作，以确定创新的学期课后教学经验是否对招募SAC STEM专业的专业有效地攻读教育学位。该项目将为未来的Noyce教师奖学金和津贴（Track 1）提案奠定基础。该项目具有三个主要目标：（1）衡量STEM专业对STEM教学的兴趣；（2）提高STEM学生和教师对教学职业的看法；（3）增加攻读联合教育学位的STEM学生的数量和STEM学科学位。该项目将由两个相互关联的目标驱动：（1）确定长期的课后教学经验是否可以吸引STEM专业的专业来考虑教学职业；（2）确定当前对STEM教育的低兴趣的根本原因，以便设计干预措施。研究方法包括通过所有第一年SAC STEM专业的STEM职业兴趣调查（STEM-CI）评估STEM的主要兴趣。对城市学校和学生的态度将通过询问前/提问和退出访谈来衡量。将通过项目团队进行的一项调查来衡量对整个校园STEM教育的兴趣，即“ STEM教师对教学作为职业调查的态度”。该项目将通过添加小型，城市，自由派学院的观点以及对NH曼彻斯特的影响，这将扩大Noyce的投资组合，这是一个拥有庞大难民人口的NH曼彻斯特社区。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子的知名度和广泛的影响来评估Criteria criteria criteria criteria criteria。