Recruitment. Recruiting Teachers of Color in Science and Mathematics for High-Need Schools: Lesson Learned From the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program

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Abstract

Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) educators in the United States remain largely White in a nation experiencing unprecedented cultural and linguistic diversification. This chapter focuses on efforts to recruit diverse students into traditional teacher education programs through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (NTSP). The NTSP provides incentives, field-based learning opportunities, and support structures that attract and prepare students of color to work in high-needs schools. Additionally, many recently funded NTSPs explicitly seek out diverse participants despite the absence of a mandate for teacher diversity as a Noyce program requirement. To better understand this phenomenon, the present research undertook a systematic review of literature from NTSPs to explore how and why they were able to recruit underrepresented students of color into STEM education.

Authors

• Jamaal Young, Texas A&M University

• Alana Tholen, University of Iowa

• Nickolaus Alexander Ortiz, Georgia State University

• Willie C.J. Harmon, Jr., Texas A&M University - College Station

• Marlon C. James, Texas A&M University - College Station