Recruitment, Readiness, and Retention of Engineering, Mathematics, and Science Teachers

工程、数学和科学教师的招聘、准备和保留

• 批准号: 2345066
• 负责人: Colleen Eddy
• 金额: $ 247.74万
• 依托单位: University of North Texas
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-06-01 至 2030-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2345066&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Recruitment; Readiness; Retention; Engineering; Mathematics

The project aims to serve the national need of preparing high-quality STEM teachers by recruiting professionals with degrees in STEM and supporting them to become grades 6-12 STEM teachers and leaders in high-need schools. This project will prepare two cohorts of STEM teachers and leaders as teaching fellows (TFs) and will target TFs from groups that reflect the diversity of the high-need school districts in which they will teach. TFs will lead a STEM Summer Camp for secondary students, complete a Master of Education in Teaching in Secondary Education, and four years of teaching in a high-need school. To support retention in the teaching profession, the project will implement a four-year supplementary induction program for TFs that includes university STEM faculty as mentors and strategically placing two or more TFs at the same school when possible. The expected outcomes include highly qualified STEM teachers who are well prepared and supported to teach and be leaders in high-need schools. The project at the University of North Texas includes partnerships with Denton ISD, Gains in the Education of Mathematics and Science (GEMS) program, and non-profit partners, talkSTEM, Communities in Schools North Texas (CISNT), and the National Society of Black Engineers – Dallas-Fort Worth (NSBE-DFW). The project goals include: 1) Building knowledge about recruiting, readiness, and retaining engineering majors as STEM teachers. 2) Building 16 STEM post-baccalaureate leaders and community between engineering, mathematics, and science majors in the project, the field, and the profession with this project's collaborators, and 3) Strengthening partnerships between UNT College of Education, the College of Engineering, the College of Science, district/school partner, and non-profit partners to recruit, prepare, and retain STEM teachers. The project has the potential to serve as a model for universities seeking to address STEM teacher shortages, offering a replicable blueprint for supporting STEM TFs thereby establishing a sustainable teacher pipeline. This Track 2: Teaching Fellowships 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.

该项目旨在通过招募具有STEM学位的专业人士来准备高质量的STEM教师的国家需求，并支持他们成为6至12年级的STEM教师和高需求学校的领导者。该项目将为两名STEM教师和领导者作为教学研究员（TFS）做好准备，并将针对反映他们将要教授的高需求学区多样性的小组的TF。 TFS将为中学学生带领一个STEM夏令营，完成中学教育教学硕士，并在一所高中的学校任教四年。为了支持在教学专业中的保留，该项目将针对TFS实施四年的补充归纳计划，其中包括大学STEM教师为导师，并在可能的情况下在同一学校中策略性地将两个或更多TF放置在同一学校。预期的结果包括高素质的STEM教师，他们为教授和成为高需求学校的领导者提供了充分的准备。北德克萨斯大学的项目包括与登顿ISD的合作伙伴关系，数学和科学教育（GEMS）计划的收益以及非营利性合作伙伴，谈话系统，北德克萨斯州北德克萨斯州（CISNT）的社区以及国家黑人工程师学会 - 达拉斯 - 福特·沃思（Dallas-Fort Worth）（NSBE-DFW）。项目目标包括：1）建立有关招聘，阅读和保留工程专业的知识，为STEM教师。 2）该项目的工程，数学和科学专业的领导者和社区在该项目，领域和该项目的职业之间与该项目的合作者以及3）加强UNT教育学院，工程学院，科学学院/学院/学院/学校合作伙伴以及非营利合作伙伴以及招募型词干老师和维持人员的合作伙伴之间的合作伙伴关系。该项目有潜力作为寻求解决STEM教师短缺的大学的典范，提供可复制的蓝图来支持STEM TF，从而建立可持续的教师管道。这首歌2：通过罗伯特·诺伊斯（Robert Noyce）教师奖学金计划（NOYCE）支持教学奖学金项目。 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教师，成为高需求学区的STEM大师教师。它还支持对高需求学区K-12 STEM教师的有效性和保留的研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估被认为是宝贵的支持。