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Building Capacity for the Engineers to Teachers Program

  • Year 2017
  • NSF Noyce Award # 1660814
  • First Name Philip
  • Last Name Parker
  • Discipline Engineering
  • Co-PI(s)

    Andrew Pawl
    , UW-Platteville, pawla@uwplatt.edu

  • Presenters

    Philp Parker
    , UW-Platteville
    , parkerp@uwplatt.edu

Need

The state of Wisconsin has shortages of qualified STEM teachers, especially in physics, technology education, and mathematics. In this Capacity Building project, we propose to design a teacher education model that will help address these shortages while simultaneously improving the engineering background of STEM teachers in Wisconsin.

Goals

Goal: To plan the implementation of a successful Noyce Scholarship program (‘Engineers to Teachers,’ or ‘E2Teach’) at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville (UW-Platteville) to meet the significant and growing need for STEM teachers in high-need and underserved rural districts.
Objective 1 Solicit input from constituents and stakeholders
Objective 2 Conduct a comprehensive assessment of the demand for STEM teachers in the Tri-State region (Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa)
Objective 3 Examine and streamline curricula to create accessible pathways for engineering students into STEM education degrees, including a new applied physics degree
Objective 4 Design the Noyce Scholarship program (E2Teach)
Objective 5 Create a marketing plan
Objective 6 Investigate an efficient pathway for post-BS engineers to acquire a secondary education license to teach secondary STEM courses

Approach

The following tasks will be carried out:
1. Solicit input from constituents through internal and external advisory boards
2. Perform a market analysis
3. Examine and streamline curricula
4. Design the Engineers to Teachers (E2Teach) program
5. Create a marketing plan
6. Investigate a pathway for post-BS engineers to acquire educator’s licenses

Outcomes

This project has just been awarded.

Broader Impacts

At the regional level, this proposal would impact the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa by increasing the supply of highly qualified teachers in three licensure areas that are currently experiencing shortages. These teachers would additionally have deep exposure to an engineering discipline, including upper division coursework, providing local schools with teachers who are highly qualified to teach innovative and popular engineering curricula like Project Lead the Way.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant Numbers DUE-2041597 and DUE-1548986. Any opinions, findings, interpretations, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of its authors and do not represent the views of the AAAS Board of Directors, the Council of AAAS, AAAS’ membership or the National Science Foundation.

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