Recruiting, Preparing, and Retaining STEM Educators to Serve in High-Need Schools in Central Louisiana

招募、准备和留住 STEM 教育工作者为路易斯安那州中部的高需求学校服务

• 批准号: 2049992
• 负责人: Gerard Dumancas
• 金额: $ 120万
• 依托单位: Louisiana State University at Alexandria
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-04-01 至 2022-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2049992&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Recruiting; Preparing; Retaining; STEM; Educators

This project aims to serve the national need for highly effective STEM teachers. To do so, it will recruit undergraduate STEM majors to complete STEM degrees and obtain a secondary teacher certification. These STEM undergraduates will receive scholarships and other supports designed to enrich their STEM knowledge, as well as their teaching knowledge and skills. To expand their STEM content knowledge, the Noyce Scholars will have the opportunity to participate in collaborative mentor-scholar projects, summer computational workshops, and a chemometrics course. They will also benefit from faculty mentorships that include opportunities to reflect on their academic and career pursuits. Monthly workshops will include sessions related to interpersonal skill development, such as grit, and cultural and linguistic competence. Such skills are important for effective teaching in high-need school districts. The project expects these undergraduate Noyce Scholars will gain the knowledge, skills, and perspectives needed to help students in Central Louisiana high-need secondary schools learn mathematics and science. This project at Louisiana State University at Alexandria includes partnerships with seven high-need school districts (Allen, Avoyelles, Concordia, Evangeline, Grant, LaSalle, and Rapides Parish School Districts) and Central Louisiana Technical Community College. There are three specific projects goals. The first is to recruit, prepare, and graduate 21 qualified undergraduate biology, chemistry, and mathematics majors for secondary education certification over the five-year grant period. The second goal is to provide professional support for the long-term success of these STEM educators. The final goal is to place and retain a high percentage (90%) of these Scholars in teaching positions in high-need school districts upon graduation as they complete their teaching service requirement of two years of teaching for each one year of scholarship support. The project is based on a theoretical framing that proposes evidence-based and innovative strategies are needed to ensure the preparation of highly effective STEM teachers for service in high-need schools. The project expects to generate new knowledge about pathways that support Scholar success and strategies to increase interest of STEM undergraduates in pursuing teaching careers in high-need schools. A robust project assessment process, led by an independent evaluator, is intended to identify aspects of the program that are most effective in STEM teacher recruitment, retention, and preparation. The project intends to use results from this evaluation to improve the teacher education program and will disseminate the results locally and nationally via publications and presentations. This Track 1: Scholarships and Stipends Noyce project is supported through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program. The Noyce program supports talented STEM undergraduate majors and professionals to become effective K-12 STEM teachers and experienced, exemplary k-12 teachers to become STEM master teachers in high-need school districts. It also supports research on the persistence, retention, and effectiveness of K-12 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对高效STEM教师的需求。为此，它将招募本科生专业的茎学位并获得二级教师认证。这些STEM大学生将获得奖学金和其他旨在丰富其STEM知识以及他们的教学知识和技能的支持。 为了扩大他们的STEM内容知识，Noyce学者将有机会参加协作导师 - 策划项目，夏季计算研讨会和化学计量学课程。他们还将从教师指导中受益，其中包括反思其学术和职业追求的机会。每月研讨会将包括与人际技能发展有关的会议，例如勇气，文化和语言能力。 此类技能对于在高需求学区有效教学很重要。该项目预计，这些本科生的学者将获得所需的知识，技能和观点，以帮助路易斯安那州中部高需求中学的学生学习数学和科学。 该项目位于亚历山大市路易斯安那州立大学，包括与七个高需求学区（艾伦，阿沃耶尔，康科迪亚，伊万杰琳，格兰特，拉萨尔和拉皮德斯教区学区）和路易斯安那州中部技术社区学院的合作伙伴关系。有三个特定的项目目标。 首先是在五年的赠款期内招募，准备和毕业21名合格的本科生物学，化学和数学专业。第二个目标是为这些STEM教育者的长期成功提供专业支持。 最终的目标是毕业后，在毕业后，将这些学者中的高比例（90％）放在高需求学区的教学职位上，因为他们完成了每年一年的奖学金支持的两年教学要求。该项目基于一个理论框架，该框架提出了基于证据的和创新的策略，以确保为高需求学校的高效STEM教师准备高效的STEM教师。该项目预计将产生有关支持学者成功和策略的新知识，以提高STEM大学生在追求高需求学校的教学职业方面的兴趣。由独立评估者领导的强大项目评估过程旨在确定在STEM教师招募，保留和准备方面最有效的计划的各个方面。该项目打算使用本评估的结果来改善教师教育计划，并将通过出版物和演示在本地和全国范围内传播结果。该曲目1：Robert Noyce教师奖学金计划支持奖学金和津贴Noyce项目。 NOYCE计划支持有才华的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老师，成为高需求学区的STEM大师教师。它还支持有关K-12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获得支持。