DUE Robert Noyce: Building STEM Teachers through Cohorts, Communities and Math and Science Teacher Education Readiness Scholarships (MASTERS)

科学和技术学院、教育学院、萨凡纳-查塔姆公立学校系统(SCCPSS)和佐治亚州海岸的基督教青年会正在合作，招募、建立和支持STEM本科专业的队列社区成为教师：1)吸引和招聘一年级和二年级学生进入教学，2)为STEM教员举办讲习班，向他们提供专业知识，就教学生涯向学生提供建议，3)为计划成为教师的初级和高级STEM专业的学生提供奖学金，4)创建专注于STEM教育研究和最佳实践的未来教师专业学习社区(FTPLC)，以及5)支持通过数学或科学认证进入中学或中学阶段的加速高考年。这些学生在高需求学校任教长达6年(每一年的支持时间为2年)，并在阿姆斯特朗的学习社区和学校环境中担任同行领袖。该项目正在培养31名高素质的MAT准备科学和数学教师。更广泛的影响：佐治亚州数学和科学教师短缺是至关重要的。预计未来五年需要88名初中和91名高中科学/数学教师。该项目正在影响对高素质科学和数学教师的需求，以便在萨凡纳和佐治亚州东南部周边地区的高需求地区任教。

The College of Science and Technology, the College of Education, the Savannah-Chatham Public School System (SCCPSS) and the YMCA of Coastal Georgia are collaborating to recruit, build and support cohort communities of STEM undergraduate majors to become teachers using five strategies: 1) attracting and recruiting freshmen and sophomores into teaching, 2) holding workshops for STEM faculty to provide them with the expertise to advise students on the career of teaching, 3) providing scholarships for junior and senior STEM majors planning to become teachers, 4) creating future teacher professional learning communities (FTPLCs) focused on research and best practices in STEM education, and 5) supporting the accelerated MAT year leading to math or science certification at the Middle or Secondary level. The students teach in a high needs school for up to 6 years (2 years for each year of support) and serve as peer-leaders in learning communities at Armstrong and within their school environment. This project is producing 31 highly qualified MAT prepared science and math teachers. Broader Impacts: The shortage of math and science teachers in Georgia is critical. The projected need over the next five years is for 88 middle and 91 high school science/math teachers. This project is impacting the need for highly qualified science and math teachers to teach in high needs districts in Savannah and the surrounding areas of southeast Georgia.