Hood College’s Noyce STEM Teacher Education Partnership (NSTEP) program is an NSF-funded partnership between Hood College (a four-year school), Frederick Community College (FCC, a two-year school), and Frederick County Public Schools (FCPS, the local school district). The goal of the program is to prepare high-quality secondary education STEM teachers and equip them to teach in high-needs schools. The program provides scholarships for students’ last two years of study towards a bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline (biology, chemistry, or mathematics) with a secondary education certification. Scholarships are significant, averaging $18,000 per year. The scholarships require a teaching commitment of two years in a high-needs school district for every year of support received. In addition to scholarships, the program provides workshops, field trips, and other educational experiences to prepare students for teaching in a high-needs school. The partnership with FCC includes funding for an FCC faculty member to be the point of contact for the partnership. Several recruiting activities are conducted at FCC each year, and educational workshops for students, faculty, and staff have been provided on FCC’s campus. So far, roughly one third of scholarship recipients have been transfer students from FCC. This talk will include details on the NSTEP program and lessons learned from developing and implementing such a partnership over the past three years.

Hood College’s NSTEP program:  Partnership between a two-year and a four-year college to prepare STEM teachers

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