Creating a Grow-Your-Own Program for Recruiting and Supporting Computer Science Teacher Candidates in Rural Georgia

创建一个自己成长的计划，用于招募和支持佐治亚州农村地区的计算机科学教师候选人

• 批准号: 2344678
• 负责人: Susie Morrissey
• 金额: $ 13.42万
• 依托单位: Mercer University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-05-01 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2344678&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; Grow; Your; Own; Program

The project aims to serve the national need of building capacity to prepare high-quality computer science (CS) teachers. Thousands of CS positions remain unfilled, partly due to a shortage of CS teachers to educate students for future CS careers. This project intends to respond to the shortage by creating a pathway for high school students to become CS teachers, with scholarship funds as an incentive. The project team plans to develop a Grow-Your-Own (GYO) model for prospective CS teachers, focused on rural Georgia. The aim of the GYO model will be to recruit interested students from high school who intend to return to their hometown to teach CS. Dual enrollment courses (for high school and college credit), stipends for two-year college courses, and scholarship funds for two years at Mercer will combine to provide a college education for prospective CS teachers.This project at Mercer University includes partnerships with Wiregrass Georgia Technical College and eight rural Georgia high-need school districts (Clinch, Coffee, Dublin, Evans, Jeff Davis, Tattnall, Treutlen, and Wheeler). Project goals include identifying and adding new partners, developing a GYO model incorporating dual enrollment and community college pathways; and creating a recruitment plan. Informal interviews and surveys with district leaders, teachers, and prospective CS teachers will inform the development of a GYO model that meets the needs of the community. Although this specific project seeks to address the shortage of CS teachers in rural Georgia, the project team intends to share effective strategies at state and national conferences to promote transfer of the development process to other settings. An external evaluator and an advisory board will also support the project. 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 teachers to become STEM master teachers in high-need school districts. It also supports research on the effectiveness and retention 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.

该项目旨在满足建立高质量计算机科学（CS）教师的国家需求。成千上万的CS职位仍然没有填补，部分原因是CS老师短缺无法教育学生以后的CS职业。该项目打算通过为高中生成为CS老师的途径来应对短缺，并以奖学金作为激励。该项目团队计划为专注于佐治亚州农村的潜在CS教师开发一个成长的（​​GYO）模型。 GYO模型的目的是招募来自高中的感兴趣的学生，他们打算返回家乡教CS。 Dual enrollment courses (for high school and college credit), stipends for two-year college courses, and scholarship funds for two years at Mercer will combine to provide a college education for prospective CS teachers.This project at Mercer University includes partnerships with Wiregrass Georgia Technical College and eight rural Georgia high-need school districts (Clinch, Coffee, Dublin, Evans, Jeff Davis, Tattnall, Treutlen和Wheeler）。项目目标包括识别和添加新合作伙伴，开发一个结合双重入学和社区大学途径的GYO模型；并制定招聘计划。对地区领导者，教师和准CS教师进行的非正式访谈和调查将为满足社区需求的GYO模型的发展提供信息。尽管该特定项目旨在解决佐治亚州农村地区CS教师的短缺，但该项目团队打算在州和国家会议上分享有效的策略，以促进发展过程转移到其他环境。外部评估者和顾问委员会还将支持该项目。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 STEM教师在高需求学区的有效性和保留的研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准通过评估来支持的。