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The Pathway from Community College into a Noyce Program: Challenges and Opportunities

  • Year 2016
  • NSF Noyce Award # 1339956
  • First Name Sandra
  • Last Name Adams
  • Discipline Teacher Education
  • Co-PI(s)

    Douglas Larkin, Montclair State University, larkind@mail.montclair.edu
    John Berger, County College of Morris, jberger@ccm.edu

  • Presenters

    Douglas Larkin, Montclair State University, larkind@mail.montclair.edu

Need

The number of students in science teacher certification programs in the state of NJ remains quite low. The assumption of this project was that enrollment could be increased by easing the pathway for community college science majors into a science teacher education program.

Goals

The goal for this project was to recruit science majors into the MSU Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program. To this end, we established a position for a community college recruitment coordinator and two additional recruiters at a total of three community colleges.

Approach

These efforts supplemented our overall recruitment efforts, which included a website, brochures, and multiple personal presentations and appeals in undergraduate science courses and clubs.

Outcomes

The key finding from this project is that community college recruitment efforts were largely unsuccessful for a number of reasons: the fact that many high achieving community college students simply did not choose teaching as a career, the long trajectory of course planning and advisement that was necessary to gain admission into the MSU teacher education program, and structural impediments between community colleges and 4 year institutions that went beyond what could be ameliorated by the program.

Broader Impacts

This project has influenced the overall discussion about recruitment of STEM majors into teacher education through the undergraduate route at our university. Currently, dissemination of these findings has occurred in meetings at the department and college level.

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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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