Science Teacher and Researcher (STAR) National Pilot Proposal

科学教师和研究人员（STAR）项目通过在大学、K-12学区、联邦研究机构和工业界之间建立创新的合作伙伴关系，创造了一条享有声望的双重“教师-研究人员”职业道路，解决了科学和数学教师招聘和保留危机。STAR利用现有的联邦研究和开发资产，帮助培养新一代的科学和数学教师，这些教师具备的技能将激励我们国家更多的学生选择STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）职业道路。STAR计划为解决科学和数学教学危机有三个主要目标：1)加强对高素质教师的招聘；2)改善教师教育和专业发展；3)提高教师留任率。STAR于2007年在加州理工学院圣路易斯奥比斯波分校成立并实施，代表加州州立大学（CSU）系统，在早期关键时期为教师提供尖端的研究经验和职业发展。STAR项目的关键经验是在国家实验室或NASA研究中心的带薪暑期研究实习。实习包括每周的教育研讨会和工作坊，由硕士教师、科学教育教师和研究设施的教育人员主持。通过将职前教师固定在科学实践社区中，他们更好地理解成为一名研究人员以及一名科学或数学教师意味着什么。在加州项目成功的基础上，STAR项目的试点扩展将资助45名诺伊斯学者成为STAR研究员，其中20名在加州，25名在其他5个州的新试点STAR大学-实验室合作伙伴关系中。它正在增加作为诺伊斯学者的STAR研究员的数量，并允许对STAR项目的影响进行评估，将其作为诺伊斯项目在全国范围内的增值组成部分，并为为职前教师提供研究经验的影响做出贡献。

The Science Teacher and Researcher (STAR) program addresses the science and mathematics teacher recruitment and retention crisis by creating a prestigious dual "teacher-researcher" career path in an innovative partnership between universities, K-12 districts, federal research agencies, and industry. STAR leverages existing federal research and development assets to help prepare a new generation of science and math teachers equipped with the skills to inspire more of our nation's students to choose STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) career paths. The STAR program has three main goals for addressing the crisis in science and mathematics teaching: 1) enhanced recruitment of high quality teachers, 2) improved teacher education and professional development, and 3) improved teacher retention rates. Founded and implemented in 2007 at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo on behalf of the California State University (CSU) system, STAR provides cutting edge research experiences and career development for teachers during the early critical years. The key experience of the STAR program is a paid summer research internship in a national laboratory or at a NASA research center. The internship includes weekly education seminars and workshops conducted by master teachers, science education faculty, and education staff at the research facility. By anchoring preservice teachers in a community of scientific practice, they better understand what it means to be a researcher as well as a teacher of science or mathematics. This pilot expansion of the STAR program, based on the success of the program in California, is funding 45 Noyce Scholars to become STAR Fellows with 20 in California and 25 in new pilot STAR university-laboratory partnerships in up to five other states. It is increasing the pool of STAR Fellows who are Noyce Scholars and allowing evaluation of the impact of the STAR program as a value-added component of Noyce programs across the country and contributing to the research literature on the impact of providing research experiences for preservice teachers.