Recruitment. Recruiting teachers of color in STEM for high need schools: Lesson learned from the Robert Noyce teacher scholarship program

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Abstract

STEM educators in the United States remain largely White in an extremely diverse nation. This chapter focuses on efforts to recruit diverse students into teacher education programs through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (NTSP). The NTSP provides incentives, field-based learning opportunities, and supports that attract and prepare students of color to work in high-needs schools. 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. The thematic analysis revealed some critical observations that informed four essential lessons for NTSP and similar initiatives to support the recruitment and retention of 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