- Year 2024
- NSF Noyce Award # 1821710, 1821462, & 2243554
- First Name Dawson
- Last Name Lang
- Institution Colorado School of Mines
- Role/Position Former Noyce Scholar
- Proposal Type Workshop
- Workshop Category Track 1: Scholarships and Stipends
- Workshop Disciplines Audience Engineering
- Target Audience Co-PIs, Evaluators/Education Researchers, Noyce Master Teachers, Noyce Teaching Fellows, Other Faculty/Staff, Project PIs, Undergraduate and/or Graduate Noyce Scholars
- Topics Recruiting with Retention in Mind
- Additional Presenter(s)
Wendy Adams
Goals
1. Gain an understanding of the current perceptions and misconceptions surrounding teaching as a career option within STEM majors. 2. Explore surprising data about the teaching profession, including its prospects, opportunities, and potential impact on career trajectories for STEM graduates. 3. Acquire recruitment strategies and resources that provide accurate information about career prospects in teaching, empowering students to make informed decisions about their future in STEM fields.
Evidence
Research Results: The research efforts have likely involved data collection, analysis, and interpretation to provide insights into the perceptions and realities of teaching as a career option within STEM fields. Pre-Post Student Assessment: Pre- and post-assessments have probably been used to measure the effectiveness of the presented content in changing participants’ understanding and perceptions regarding teaching as a career option in STEM. These assessments may include questions about participants’ knowledge, attitudes, and intentions related to pursuing teaching careers before and after the session. Extensive User Testing: The materials and resources shared in the session have undergone extensive user testing, ensuring their quality, relevance, and usability for the target audience. Feedback from users may have been collected and incorporated into refining the content to meet participants’ needs better.
Proposal
If we want these students to consider majoring in STEM, we must let prospective students know that teaching is a career option for their major. Participants will dig into some surprising data about the teaching profession in this presentation. Recruitment strategies and resources will also be shared and designed to give students accurate information about their career prospects. All materials are professional quality, research-based, and have been extensively user-tested. Get the Facts Out is a partnership between the American Physical Society, the American Chemical Society, the American Mathematics Teacher Educators, and the American Association of Physics Teachers led by the Colorado School of Mines.
