Robert Noyce Scholarships Phase II: Preparing Teachers for a New Era

这一第二阶段项目是在前一阶段的成功的基础上开展的，该阶段招聘和培养了四批新的科学和数学教师，为他们提供了导师和超过1150小时的城乡实地学习多样化教学经验，并举办了专门的讲习班和研讨会，旨在培养他们在高需求学校和学区有效教授科学和数学所需的知识和技能。导师由密歇根州立大学(MSU)的教师提供，他们在城市/农村教师教育、城市/农村学区的硕士教师和密歇根州立大学第一阶段诺伊斯学者方面拥有专业知识。该项目力求：(A)增加来自任职人数不足的背景、尚未进入教育轨道的数学和理科学生以及迫切需要的科学领域(即物理和地球科学)学生的教师候选人人数，(B)在教师准备年和教学的头几年提供更大的支持网络。第二阶段项目通过以下四个目标扩展了密歇根州立大学(MSU)诺伊斯计划：(1)招募和保留三批致力于在高需求学校和地区任教的密歇根州立大学诺伊斯学者；(2)支持密歇根州立大学诺伊斯学者发展他们所需的知识、技能和性格，并坚持在高需求学校和地区的教学安置；(3)与密歇根州立大学在教师教育入职计划方面合作并利用现有的强大计划，以便为密歇根州立大学诺伊斯学者提供机构和同行支持；以及(4)确定密歇根州立大学诺伊斯学者计划在招聘、留住和支持新教师获得高需求安置方面的有效性，并调查该计划对获得一等奖支持的学生在教师表现、完成教学要求和留住教师专业方面的影响。该项目正在提供诺伊斯奖学金，以招聘和准备17名STEM专业的学生在包括底特律和芝加哥公立学校在内的城市学区任教。

This Phase II project builds on the successes of the previous Phase I award which recruited and prepared four cohorts of new science and mathematics teachers, providing them with mentors and over 1,150 hours of field-based urban and rural experiences in learning to teach for diversity, and with special workshops and seminars geared towards developing the knowledge and skills they need to teach science and math effectively in high needs schools and districts. Mentoring is provided by Michigan State University (MSU) faculty with expertise in urban/rural teacher education, Master teachers in urban/rural school districts, and MSU Phase I Noyce Scholars. The project seeks to: (a) increase the number of teacher candidates from underrepresented backgrounds, from among those mathematics and science students not already in the education track, and from students in high-need science areas (i.e., physical and geosciences), and (b) provide a greater network of support across the teacher preparation years and the first years of teaching. The Phase II project expands the Michigan State University (MSU) Noyce Program through the following four objectives: (1) To recruit and retain three cohorts of MSU Noyce Scholars who are committed to teaching in high needs schools and districts; (2) To support MSU Noyce Scholars in developing the knowledge, skills and dispositions they need to excel and persist in teaching placements in high needs schools and districts; (3) To collaborate with and leverage powerful programs in place at MSU in teacher education induction programs in order to provide MSU Noyce Scholars with institutional and peer support; and (4) To determine the effectiveness of the MSU Noyce Scholars program in recruiting, retaining and supporting new teachers in attaining high needs placements, and to investigate the impact of the project on students supported under the first award in terms of their performance as teachers, their completion of the teaching requirement, and their retention in the teaching profession. The project is providing Noyce Scholarships to recruit and prepare 17 STEM majors to teach in urban school districts including Detroit and Chicago Public Schools.