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Innovative Pathways to STEM Teacher Preparation to Lead in High-Need, Rural School Districts

  • Year 2019
  • NSF Noyce Award # 1660632
  • First Name Valorie
  • Last Name Zonnefeld
  • Discipline Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Geosciences, Math, Physics
  • Presenters

    Valorie Zonnefeld, Dordt University, valorie.zonnefeld@dordt.edu

Need

High-need, rural districts face unique challenges as the districts are often smaller and need teachers with broad preparation that equips them to teach multiple STEM disciplines.

Goals

How can teacher preparation programs design majors that prepare teachers to teach the breadth of content often necessary in smaller, rural schools?

Approach

The process of designing these pathways involved communication and collaboration between the Iowa Department of Education, the NSF Noyce Scholars Program officer, as well as key professors from the physics, computer science, mathematics, engineering, biology, chemistry, and education departments.

Outcomes

The key outcomes of this project to date are the new programs that have been and are being designed. It is too early to know how successful these programs are in drawing students into STEM education.

Broader Impacts

These design of these programs are valuable to other teacher education programs.

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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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