Noyce Scholars: Science and Mathematics Teacher Scholarship Program

该项目正在为农村和多样化地区的高需求地区提供40名新的STEM教师，这些地区在招聘和留住高素质教师方面面临地理挑战。 这些需求是迫切的：北达科他州65%的学校被列为第一类学校，需要特殊资源来满足低收入和高危儿童的需求;北达科他州的九个地区在2007-08学年开始时没有科学教师或数学教师;对于该州的许多农村地区，一名教师代表整个科学或数学系。“除了为高年级学生提供奖学金外，吸引STEM专业学生从事教学工作的招聘工作还包括为一年级和二年级学生提供带薪暑期实习，以鼓励中学教学作为一种职业。这些实习生被安排在实验室或教室环境中，与参加北达科他州州长学校项目的模范高中三年级和四年级学生一起。相关项目研究的重点是吸引，准备和留住STEM个人在教学生涯中的有效性。这些包括分析STEM学者的人口背景，使用诺伊斯实习计划作为学者计划的关键招聘工具的成功/挑战，阻碍或加强学者在追求STEM学科专业的同时完成第二个教育专业的条件，以及该计划在指导下留住学者的成功/挑战，通过他们对高需求地区的承诺。该计划的成功要素有可能推动未来STEM教师招聘和保留的发展和实施，以满足高需求，农村和部落地区。

The project is providing forty new STEM teachers for high needs districts in a rural and diverse region that experiences geographic challenges to recruiting and retaining highly qualified teachers. The needs are compelling: 65% of North Dakota schools are classified as Title I, requiring special resources to meet the needs of low-income and at-risk children; nine districts in North Dakota started the 2007-08 academic year without either a science teacher or mathematics teacher; for many of the state's rural districts, one teacher represents an entire science or mathematics "department." In addition to scholarships for upperclassmen, the recruitment efforts to attract STEM majors to a teaching career include paid summer internships to first and second year students to encourage secondary teaching as a career. These interns are placed into laboratory or classroom environments alongside exemplary high school juniors and seniors who are participating in the North Dakota Governor's School program. Associated project research is focusing on the effectiveness in attracting, preparing, and retaining STEM individuals in teaching careers. These include analyses of the demographic backgrounds of the STEM Scholars, the successes/challenges of using the Noyce Internship program as a key recruitment tool for the Scholars program, the conditions impeding or enhancing the Scholars completion of a second major in education while pursuing a major in a STEM discipline, and the program's success/challenges in the mentored retention of scholars through their period of commitment to the high needs districts. The successful elements of the program have the potential to drive development and implementation of future STEM teacher recruitment and retention for high needs, rural, and tribal districts.