Enhancing the 5 YR Math and Science Education Programs at SJU

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。圣约瑟夫大学（SJU）正在增加在高需求学区工作的高素质数学和科学中学教师的数量。该项目与费城学区合作，招募当前和即将入学的本科生参加SJU五年制数学和科学中等教育BS/MS课程，为本科生提供前两年的教育推广机会和第四年和第五年的学费奖学金。作为这些奖学金的回报，该计划的毕业生承诺在费城和其他高需求的公立高中任教。奖学金获得者通过城市教师协作组织在他们开始教学的几年里得到指导，该组织每月举办研讨会，探讨城市高中数学和科学教学的具体问题。该补助金还支持数学和科学教育的暑期课程，该课程结合了五年制课程学生的研究生课程，针对该地区初中和高中学生的数学和科学教育推广计划，并为SJU的新生和学生提供带薪暑期实习机会，以从事数学和科学教学作为一种策略，使他们对教学感兴趣。该项目的长期目标是毕业更多的中学教师在数学，生物学，化学和物理谁是致力于教学在费城和周边社区的学生不足的背景。该项目在项目期间为至少19名诺伊斯学者提供学费支持。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Saint Joseph's University (SJU) is increasing the number of highly qualified math and science secondary school teachers who work in high-need school districts. Collaborating with the School District of Philadelphia, the project recruits current and incoming undergraduate students to the SJU five-year BS/MS program in mathematics and science secondary education by providing support in the form of educational outreach opportunities for undergraduates in their first two years and tuition scholarships during their fourth and fifth years. In return for these scholarships, graduates of the program commit to teaching in Philadelphia and other high-need public high schools. Scholarship recipients are mentored in their beginning teaching years through the Urban Teacher Collaborative, which provides monthly workshops for exploring issues specific to teaching math and science in urban high schools. The grant also supports a summer program in mathematics and science education that combines a graduate level class for students in the five-year programs, a math and science educational outreach program targeting junior high and high school students in the area and paid summer internships for freshmen and sophomores at SJU to engage in mathematics and science teaching as a strategy to interest them in teaching as a career. The long term goal of the project is to graduate more secondary teachers with strong backgrounds in mathematics, biology, chemistry and physics who are committed to teaching underserved students in Philadelphia and the surrounding communities. The project provides tuition support to a minimum of 19 Noyce scholars during the project years.