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

第二阶段项目是在前一阶段奖励的成功基础上开展的，第一阶段奖励招募和培养了四批新的科学和数学教师，为他们提供导师和1 150多个小时的城市和农村多样性教学经验，以及专门的讲习班和研讨会，旨在发展他们在高需求中有效教授科学和数学所需的知识和技能学校和地区。 指导由密歇根州立大学（MSU）教师提供，他们具有城市/农村教师教育的专业知识，城市/农村学区的硕士教师和MSU第一阶段诺伊斯学者。 该项目力求：（a）增加来自代表性不足背景、尚未进入教育轨道的数学和科学学生以及高需求科学领域（即，物理和地球科学），以及（B）在教师准备年和教学的第一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密歇根州立大学（MSU）诺伊斯计划：（1）招募和留住三批致力于在高需求学校和地区教学的MSU诺伊斯学者;（2）支持MSU诺伊斯学者发展他们需要的知识，技能和性格，以在高需求学校和地区脱颖而出并坚持教学实习;（3）与MSU教师教育入职培训项目合作并利用其强大的项目，为MSU诺伊斯学者提供机构和同行支持;及（4）确定密歇根州立大学诺伊斯学者计划在招聘、留住和支持新教师以实现高需求安置方面的有效性，以及研究计划对获首个奖项资助的学生在教师表现，教学要求的完成情况，以及他们在教师专业的留任情况等方面的影响。该项目正在提供诺伊斯奖学金，以招募和准备17个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.