Building the Capacity to Address the Urban STEM Teacher Shortage in Massachusetts

建设解决马萨诸塞州城市 STEM 教师短缺问题的能力

• 批准号: 1950131
• 负责人: Katherine Chen
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-15 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1950131&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Capacity; Address; Urban; STEM

This project aims to serve the national need of building capacity to increase the number of high-quality secondary school STEM teachers in urban, high-need schools. The project will explore factors that promote the decision of STEM majors at Worcester Polytechnic Institute to become teachers. It will identify these factors through surveys, interviews, and focus groups. The project also aims to understand mechanisms to diversify the pool of potential Noyce Scholars. The project also plans to build strong partnerships with local, high-need schools that will supervise, mentor, and hire Noyce Scholars who complete the program.This project at Worcester Polytechnic Institute includes a partnership with the Worcester Public School district. The goals of this Capacity Building Noyce project are to establish research-informed plans for a successful Noyce Track 1 program that will support undergraduate STEM majors to become certified teachers. The project plans include development of a Teacher Preparation Program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute that better serves both the needs of teacher candidates and the needs of secondary schools that could hire these graduates. The intention is that local, high-need secondary schools will place students into early field work and practicums, which can help to solidify their intention to pursue a teaching career. Another goal is to better understand the value proposition of the teacher preparation program. Research will be conducted using human-centered design tools to develop insight and evidence so that more STEM secondary teachers trained at Worcester Polytechnic Institute are teaching in urban, high-need schools. Answers to two research questions are needed to understand how to build capacity and reduce barriers limiting the number of STEM majors becoming teachers: Do teacher candidates have unmet needs and what are the barriers preventing them from becoming secondary STEM teachers? How do local secondary schools, teachers, and hiring managers assess the teacher candidates and graduates, and what specifically is required for their high-need schools? This Capacity Building 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 STEM teachers to become STEM master teachers in high-need school districts. It also supports research on the persistence, retention, and effectiveness of K-12 STEM teachers 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.

该项目旨在满足国家建立能力的需求，以增加城市高需求学校中高质量的中学茎教师的数量。 该项目将探索沃斯特理工学院成为教师的茎专业决定的因素。 它将通过调查，访谈和焦点小组来确定这些因素。 该项目还旨在了解能够多样化潜在的Noyce学者的机制。 该项目还计划与当地高需求的学校建立牢固的合作伙伴关系，这些学校将监督，导师和雇用完成该计划的Noyce学者。伍斯特理工学院的该项目包括与伍斯特公立学区的合作伙伴关系。该能力建设项目的目标是为成功的Noyce Track 1计划建立研究知识的计划，该计划将支持本科生的专业学生成为认证的教师。 该项目计划包括在伍斯特理工学院制定一项教师准备计划，该计划更好地满足了教师候选人的需求以及可以聘请这些毕业生的中学需求。 目的是，地方高需求的中学将使学生进入早期的现场工作和实践，这可以帮助巩固他们从事教学职业的意图。 另一个目标是更好地了解教师准备计划的价值主张。研究将使用以人为中心的设计工具来开发洞察力和证据，以便在伍斯特理工学院接受培训的更多STEM中学教师正在城市高需求的学校任教。需要两个研究问题的答案，以了解如何建立能力并减少障碍，以限制STEM专业的数量成为教师：教师候选人是否有未满足的需求？什么障碍阻止他们成为次要的STEM老师？当地中学，教师和招聘经理如何评估教师候选人和毕业生，以及他们的高需求学校需要什么？ 罗伯特·诺伊斯（Robert Noyce）教师奖学金计划（NOYCE）支持该能力建设项目。 NOYCE计划支持才华横溢的STEM本科专业和专业人士成为有效的K-12 STEM老师，并经验丰富的K-12 STEM老师成为高需求学区的STEM大师教师。它还支持有关K-12 STEM教师在高需求学区的持久性，保留和有效性的研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，认为值得通过评估来支持。

项目成果

Utilizing an Engineering Design-Based Research Approach to Study and Strengthen a Teacher Preparation Program in STEM at the Secondary Level (Work in Progress)

利用基于工程设计的研究方法来研究和加强中学 STEM 教师准备计划（正在进行中）

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
• 作者: Chen, Katherine C.;Weaver, Shari;Fougere, Gretchen
• 通讯作者: Fougere, Gretchen