USM Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program

南缅因州大学（USM）正在招聘和准备41名新的科学和数学教师，为本科STEM专业的初始教师准备计划提供奖学金，并为研究生水平的初始教师准备中的STEM职业转换者提供奖学金和/或津贴，重点是招聘来自不同语言和文化背景的个人。该计划还为所有学者提供专业发展支持，从服务前到他们与四个学区（戈勒姆，波特兰，刘易斯顿和桑福德公立学校）合作的教学开始几年。该项目包括使用同侪领导的团队学习（PLTL），以增加本科生在化学和数学方面的学习，提高职前STEM教师的保留率，并招募新的STEM学生参加教师准备计划。 一个新来的模式是在地方招聘具有不同语言，种族和文化背景的永久居民外国人进入教学通过建立一个学术和社会支持计划，以促进他们过渡到美国教育系统，因为他们追求他们的教师准备。 认证后的教学和学习硕士学位完成计划聘请硕士教师作为临床教师，并聘请大学教师作为“虚拟居住”的内容专家。毕业的罗伯特·诺伊斯教学（RNT）学者的网络提供同行在诱导年的支持。 该项目使用真实的K-16合作伙伴关系，为参与USM南部缅因州合作伙伴关系的36个地区的STEM教师提供外展服务，并宣传USM专业发展中心为在职教师提供的众多产品的可用性。 招聘策略包括在社交网站上使用广告，如MySpace.com和facebook.com，招聘传统年龄的学生参加教师准备计划。一个教育技术借阅图书馆可供RNT学者和其他USM毕业生在他们的K-12 STEM教室使用，使他们能够成为技术上有能力的从业者和现场和实验室教学的领导者。

The University of Southern Maine (USM) is recruiting and preparing 41 new science and mathematics teachers by offering scholarships to undergraduate STEM majors in initial teacher preparation programs, and scholarships and/or stipends for STEM career changers in graduate-level initial teacher preparation, with an emphasis on recruiting individuals from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. The program also provides professional development support for all scholars from pre-service through their beginning years of teaching in partnership with four school districts (Gorham, Portland, Lewiston, and Sanford Public Schools). The project includes the use of Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) to increase undergraduate student learning in chemistry and mathematics, improve retention of pre-service STEM teachers, and recruit new STEM students into teacher preparation programs. A Newcomer model is in place for recruiting permanent resident aliens with diverse linguistic, racial, and cultural backgrounds into teaching by building a program of academic and social supports to facilitate their transition to the U.S. educational system as they pursue their teacher preparation. A post-certification Master of Teaching and Learning degree completion program employs master teachers as clinical faculty and engages University faculty as content experts for a "virtual residency". A network of graduated Robert Noyce Teaching (RNT) Scholars provides peer support during the induction years. The project uses authentic K-16 partnerships to provide outreach to beginning STEM teachers in the 36 districts participating in USM's Southern Maine Partnership and to advertise the availability of USM's Professional Development Center's numerous offerings for in-service teachers on a wide range of topics, including content-based seminars and strategies of particular interest to STEM teachers in high-needs settings. Recruitment strategies include the use of advertisements on social networking internet sites, such as MySpace.com and facebook.com, to recruit traditional-aged students into teacher preparation programs. An educational technology lending library is available for RNT Scholars and other USM graduates to use in their K-12 STEM classrooms to enable them to become technically competent practitioners and leaders of field and laboratory instruction.