Talented Teachers in Training for Texas (T4)

德克萨斯州天才教师培训(T4)是由斯蒂芬·F·奥斯汀州立大学(SFA)与安吉丽娜学院(AC)和德克萨斯州第七区教育服务中心合作领导的一项努力。T4努力支持20名数学、化学、生物或物理中学教师的发展。T4的目标有两个：(1)提高STEM教学专业的能力，(2)研究开发一种以研究为基础的模式，以加强STEM教师队伍，为STEM教师提供支持，无论他们身处偏远的农村环境。T4从STEM专业的SFA和AC大一和大二学生中挑选55名Noyce新兵作为候选者。每位新兵参加为期两周的暑期体验，包括数学/科学夏令营和STEM课堂观察。从这一组中，20名致力于教学事业的才华横溢的新人被选为诺伊斯学者，每个人在三年级和四年级期间每年获得15,000美元的奖学金。此外，诺伊斯奖学金获得者将接受密集的学术指导，从他们被介绍到作为一名新兵从事STEM教学职业的可能性开始，一直持续到他们的奖学金年限，最后是三年积极的课堂入职。T4诺伊斯奖学金获得者获得数学、生物、化学或物理学士学位以及教学证书。T4诺伊斯奖学金获得者由STEM教职员工与现有的SFA诺伊斯硕士教学研究员和硕士教师合作指导，明确负责在学者成功通过STEM渠道期间为他们提供支持。研究教师的质量和有效性是SFA新成立的STEM研究和学习中心的首要重点。通过这个STEM中心，T4审查项目数据，以发现有效的招聘策略，记录协作培养高素质STEM教师的纵向影响，探索在农村环境中持续的入职体验，发展与文化相适应的教学方法，最后，了解这些教师如何影响学生的成功。通过T4，SFA的努力增加了关于招聘、装备和留住STEM教师的知识库，调查了以下方面：夏令营/跟踪经验在招聘方面的有效性；与STEM专业人员和大师教师互动的有效性；队列设计的效果；以及队列年份之间同行招聘的效果。通过解决这些主题，T4有助于为STEM专业和教师的招聘、入职和保留方面的最佳实践提供知识库。

The Talented Teachers in Training for Texas (T4) is an effort led by the Stephen F. Austin State (SFA) University in partnership with Angelina College (AC) and the Texas Region 7 Education Service Center. The T4 endeavor supports development of twenty secondary teachers of mathematics, chemistry, biology, or physics. The goals of T4 are two-fold: (1) to increase capacity of STEM teaching majors, and (2) to study the development of a research-based model for strengthening the STEM teacher pipeline that provides support for STEM teachers, regardless of the remoteness of their location in rural settings. T4 recruits from the robust SFA and AC freshman and sophomore population of STEM majors to choose a select candidate pool of fifty-five Noyce Recruits. Each Recruit participates in a two-week summer experience involving a math/science camp and STEM classroom observation. From this group, twenty highly-talented Recruits, committed to a career in teaching, are chosen to become Noyce Scholars, each receiving a $15,000 annual scholarship during his/her junior and senior years. In addition, the Noyce Scholars receive intensive academic mentoring, beginning when they are introduced to the possibility of a STEM teaching career as a Recruit, continuing through their scholarship years, and culminating with three years of active classroom induction. T4 Noyce Scholars earn a baccalaureate degree in mathematics, biology, chemistry or physics, as well as a Teaching Certificate.T4 Noyce Scholars are mentored by STEM faculty collaborating with the existing SFA Noyce Master Teaching Fellows and Master Teachers, which is explicitly tasked with supporting Scholars during their successful passage through the STEM pipeline. Researching teacher quality and effectiveness is a prime focus of SFA's newly established STEM Research and Learning Center. Through this STEM Center, T4 examines project data to discover effective recruitment strategies, to document longitudinal effects of collaborative preparation of highly qualified STEM teachers, to explore sustained induction experiences in a rural environment, to develop culturally responsive pedagogy, and finally, to learn how these teachers impact student success. Through T4, SFA's effort adds to the knowledge base on recruiting, equipping, and retaining STEM teachers by investigating the following: the effectiveness of the summer camp/ shadowing experiences in recruiting; the effectiveness of interaction with STEM professionals and master teachers; the effect of the cohort design; and the effect of peer recruitment between cohort years. By addressing these topics, T4 contributes to the knowledge base for best practices in recruitment, induction, and retention of STEM majors and teachers.