Recruiting, Preparing, and Supporting STEM Professionals as Secondary STEM Teachers in High-Need School Districts in Ohio

招募、准备和支持 STEM 专业人员作为俄亥俄州高需求学区的中学 STEM 教师

• 批准号: 2345067
• 负责人: Angela Thomas
• 金额: $ 106.25万
• 依托单位: Bowling Green State University
• 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: 2024-05-01 至 2028-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2345067&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Recruiting; Preparing; Supporting; STEM; Professionals

This project aims to serve the national need of preparing effective STEM teachers for high-need schools. To address the critical shortage of teachers, the state of Ohio approved an accelerated preparation pathway for college-educated individuals to earn teacher licensure. This project would recruit STEM professionals from across the state and support their career transitions into secondary STEM teaching careers in high-need school districts. These prospective teachers would participate in specialized teacher preparation coursework, virtual one-on-one mentoring, in-person field placements in STEM classrooms, and networking opportunities. Over four years, this project aims to increase the number of qualified STEM teachers serving in the region’s high-need school districts. This project at Bowling Green State University, in partnership with Washington Local Schools and the 6,000+ members of the Rotary International Northern Ohio Districts #6600, #6630 and #6650, aims to recruit 32 new STEM professionals to secondary STEM teaching in high-need school districts over four years. This project leverages Ohio’s new alternative pathway to teacher licensure. Recruitment will target STEM professionals who live and work in communities where schools have STEM teacher shortages, as well as STEM professionals from populations underrepresented in STEM. These STEM professionals would experience an accelerated, alternative licensure pathway that uses intensive one-on-one mentoring, targeted accelerated coursework, new teacher preparation technologies, enriched field experiences, and long-term partnerships. To prepare STEM professionals for high-need school district contexts, their preparation would include studies of cultural competence, professional dispositions, and pedagogical content knowledge. This project aims to investigate how the different elements of this accelerated program may be effective in recruiting and preparing STEM professionals for secondary STEM teaching careers in high-need settings.This Track 1: Scholarships & Stipends 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.

该项目旨在满足国家对高需求学校培养有效 STEM 教师的需求。为了解决教师严重短缺的问题，俄亥俄州批准了一项针对受过大学教育的学生获得教师执照的加速准备途径。来自全州的 STEM 专业人士，支持他们在高需求学区的职业转型，进入中学 STEM 教学职业。这些未来的教师将参加专门的教师准备课程、虚拟一对一辅导、STEM 课堂的现场实习。 ,该项目旨在在四年内增加在该地区高需求学区服务的合格 STEM 教师的数量。该项目在鲍灵格林州立大学与华盛顿当地学校和 6,000 多名成员合作。国际扶轮社北俄亥俄地区 #6600、#6630 和 #6650 旨在在四年内招募 32 名新的 STEM 专业人员到高需求学区进行中学 STEM 教学。俄亥俄州新的教师执照招聘替代途径将针对在学校 STEM 教师短缺的社区中生活和工作的 STEM 专业人员，以及来自 STEM 领域代表性不足的人群的 STEM 专业人员。密集的一对一指导、有针对性的加速课程、新的教师准备技术、丰富的现场经验以及长期合作伙伴关系，为满足高需求学区的需要，他们的准备工作将包括：该项目旨在研究该加速计划的不同要素如何有效地招募和准备高需求环境中的中学 STEM 教学职业。本轨道 1：奖学金和津贴项目由罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划 (Noyce) 支持。诺伊斯计划支持有才华的 STEM 本科专业和专业人士成为有效的 K-12 STEM 教师和经验丰富、堪称典范的 K-12 教师。成为高需求学区的 STEM 大师级教师。 它还支持对高需求学区 K-12 STEM 教师的有效性和保留率进行研究。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。