Promoting Undergraduate Licensure in Science Education (PULSE)

PULSE(促进科学教育本科许可)计划招收有学术天赋和经济需求的本科科学专业学生，并以模范的方式为他们在最需要优秀教师的环境中从事中学科学教学工作做好准备：高需求的当地学区。PULSE支持25名致力于在高需求环境中服务的中学理科教师的准备、执照发放、安置和成功入职。Pulse Noyce奖学金获得者有资格获得最长两年的奖金，金额为每年12,000美元。招聘目标是科罗拉多大学丹佛分校(UCD)表现最好的STEM学生。特别努力从STEM教育中代表性不足的人群中招聘，其中包括亚裔、西班牙裔、黑人和美洲原住民学生以及残疾学生。PULSE致力于在每个学者队列中包括一名残疾人，并与UCD残疾服务和资源部门合作实现这一目标。PULSE计划使学生能够获得生物、化学、物理或地理/环境科学的学士学位，同时完成UCD科学教育独立结构专业(ISM)的课程或完成学士学位后的执照。PULSE提供招聘活动、正式的执照准备计划、高需求学校的实地经验、各种正式和非正式的教学和职业探索机会、STEM或STEM教育研究经验，以及新开发的实习和课程，以增加从事中学科学教学的STEM专业学生的数量和准备工作的质量。为了实施该计划，UCD与Aurora公立学校(APS)合作。APS是通过PULSE提供的许多实地和其他学习经验的网站，也是未来可能雇用成为认证科学教师的诺伊斯学者的网站。诺伊斯学者通过城市社区教师教育(UCTE)计划获得许可，该计划由加州大学教育与人类发展学院重新设计，以反映在为城市课堂教学准备教师候选人方面的研究和最佳实践。诺伊斯学者项目参与特定项目的学习体验，利用现有的机构优势(例如，科学和科学教育研究和城市教师教育)，并与APS建立强大的合作伙伴关系，提供从大一到诺伊斯学者入职年的多方面和发展性的体验。诺伊斯学者项目的学习经验是将本科生科学教育、科学研究、在城市环境中的教学准备和对教师的强有力的入职支持相结合的典范。这一模式的开发、部署和评估有助于STEM教育界对城市科学教师培养和支持的理解。PULSE Noyce奖学金方案系统地回应了培养准备在高需求环境中有效工作的中学科学教师这一国家挑战。它将ISM与传统STEM课程中有针对性地招收学生相结合，以培养从传统上在K-12科学教育中代表性较低的群体中挑选出来的中级科学教育人员。该计划与APS和结构化入职支持的合作伙伴关系为其他教师培训计划以及高需求地区的STEM招聘和保留工作提供了一个强有力的模式。

The PULSE (Promoting Undergraduate Licensure in Science Education) Program recruits undergraduate science majors with academic talent and financial need and prepares them in an exemplary manner to pursue a secondary science teaching career in settings that have the greatest need for excellent teachers: high-needs local school districts. PULSE supports the preparation, licensure, placement, and successful induction of twenty-five secondary science teachers who are committed to serving in high-needs settings. PULSE Noyce Scholars are eligible to receive awards for up to two years in the amount of $12,000/year. Recruitment targets the highest performing STEM students at the University of Colorado at Denver (UCD). Special efforts are made to recruit from underrepresented populations in STEM education, which include Asian, Hispanic, Black, and Native American students, as well as students with disabilities. PULSE is committed to including one individual with disabilities in each cohort of scholars and works with UCD Disability Services and Resources to achieve this end. The PULSE Program enables students to earn a baccalaureate degree in Biology, Chemistry, Physics or Geography/ Environmental Sciences while simultaneously completing coursework in UCD's science education Individually Structured Major (ISM) or by completing post-baccalaureate licensure. PULSE provides recruitment activities, a formal program of preparation for licensure, field-based experiences in high-needs schools, a variety of formal and informal teaching and career exploration opportunities, STEM or STEM education research experiences, and newly developed internships and coursework to increase both the number of STEM majors who pursue secondary science teaching and the quality of their preparation. To implement the program, UCD partners with Aurora Public Schools (APS). APS serves as the site for many field and other learning experiences provided through PULSE, as well as a site for potential future employment of the Noyce Scholars who become certified science teachers. The Noyce Scholars are licensed through the Urban Community Teacher Education (UCTE) program, which was redesigned by the UCD School of Education and Human Development to reflect research and best practice in preparing teacher candidates for teaching in urban classrooms. The Noyce Scholars participate in program-specific learning experiences that leverage existing institutional strengths (e.g., science and science education research and urban teacher education) and a strong partnership with APS to provide a multi-faceted and developmental set of experiences that span from freshman year through the Noyce scholars' induction years. The learning experiences of the Noyce Scholars serve as a model for integrating undergraduate science education, science research, preparation to teach in urban settings, and strong induction-years support for teachers. The development, deployment, and evaluation of this model are contributing to the STEM education field's understanding of urban science teacher preparation and support. The PULSE Noyce Scholarship Program responds in a systematic way to the national challenge of preparing secondary science teachers who are prepared to function effectively in high-needs settings. It combines the ISM with targeted recruiting of students in traditional STEM courses to prepare secondary science educators drawn from groups traditionally underrepresented in K-12 science education. The program's partnership with APS and structured induction support offers a strong model for other teacher preparation programs and for STEM recruitment and retention efforts in high-needs districts.