Sustaining Wyoming's Advancing Reach in Mathematics and Science (SWARMS)

为了维持怀俄明州在数学和科学方面不断进步的影响力(SARMS)，在5年内(2014-2019年)，正在认证70名新的数学和科学教师。Swarms是一个Noyce第一阶段的合作项目，加入了四个不同的小组，以增强怀俄明州的数学和科学教师队伍。这四个小组包括：1)怀俄明大学(UW)，其中包括艺术与科学学院(A&A；S)、教育学院和华盛顿大学科学与数学教学中心；2)西北学院，3)军事合作伙伴，包括：华盛顿大学退伍军人服务办公室、弗朗西斯·沃伦空军基地、怀俄明国民警卫队和怀俄明空军国民警卫队；以及4)高需求合作伙伴学区，包括：大角、弗里蒙特、戈申、拉勒米、温泉、纳特罗纳、乌伊塔和瓦沙基。Swarms利用并扩展了与怀俄明州教育部、社区学院、军事合作伙伴和高需求合作伙伴学区的现有UW合作。为了响应怀俄明州大幅提高高贫困、低绩效学校科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)教师数量和质量的迫切需求，Swarms正在扩大学士学位后计划，以吸引退伍军人和STEM研究生和本科生学位持有者。SWARMS面向数学、化学、地球科学和物理毕业生。SWARMS为本科生和研究生提供诺伊斯奖学金或津贴，以支持70名具有强大STEM背景的教师的发展，这些教师具有STEM学科的军事经验或学士学位，并获得二级教学证书。Swarms正在反复测试新的招聘策略，重新定位毕业后教师认证课程，培育社区队列模式，并在早期职业指导计划中实施最佳实践，同时针对不同的候选人群体。威斯康星大学教育学院的课程与教学硕士课程可以申请长达12个小时的毕业后认证工作。这70名诺伊斯学者在他们教学生涯的头几年都是由以前的诺伊斯学者指导的。此外，他们还得到了年度队列会议、现场访问、基于社区的博客互动、面对面互动以及电子通讯聚光灯和分发的支持。SARMS的5年目标包括：1)吸引和培养华盛顿大学的学者社区，作为合作伙伴，满足STEM管道对高需求中学高素质科学和数学教师的需求；2)招募多样化的有才华的退伍军人和持有研究生和本科STEM学位的个人；3)培养70名高素质的怀俄明州认证中学科学和数学教师，通过浸泡在综合STEM的探究驱动方法教授严格的内容；4)加强和扩大创新项目(后BAC)，并测试针对目标未来教师的新招聘技术；5)通过发展学习社区来支持基于早期职业教师指导最佳实践的队列小组，以促进高需求学校的科学和数学教师留任；以及6)研究和迭代地建立可持续发展、复制和传播的群体。SWARMS保持了怀俄明州在数学和科学领域不断向前推进的影响，致力于认证怀俄明州未来的数学和科学教师，以持续增长并培养当地STEM人才，以培养下一代懂STEM的青年。

Sustaining Wyoming's Advancing Reach in Mathematics and Science (SWARMS) is certifying seventy (70) new mathematics and science teachers over a 5-year period (2014-2019). SWARMS is a Noyce, Phase I, collaboration project joining four distinct groups to enhance Wyoming's pool of mathematics and science teachers. The four groups include: 1) The University of Wyoming (UW) among the College of Arts & Sciences (A&S), College of Education, and the UW Science and Mathematics Teaching Center; 2) Northwest College, 3) Military partners including: UW Office of Veteran Services, Francis Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming National Guard, and Wyoming Air National Guard; and 4) High-need partner school districts including: Big Horn, Fremont, Goshen, Laramie, Hot Springs, Natrona, Uinta, and Washakie. SWARMS leverages and extends existing UW collaborations with the Wyoming Department of Education, community colleges, military partners, and high-need partner school districts. Responding to Wyoming's critical need to dramatically enhance the number and quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teachers in high-poverty, low-performing schools, SWARMS is expanding the post-baccalaureate program to engage military veterans and holders of STEM graduate and undergraduate degrees. SWARMS targets mathematics, chemistry, earth science, and physics graduates.SWARMS provides Noyce scholarships or stipends to undergraduates and graduates to support the development of seventy teachers with strong STEM backgrounds as a result of military experience or baccalaureate degrees in a STEM discipline, as well as obtainment of a secondary teaching certificate. SWARMS is iteratively testing new recruitment strategies, reorienting post-baccalaureate teacher certification classes, nurturing a community cohort model, and implementing best practices in early career mentoring programs while targeting a diverse candidate population. Up to twelve hours of post-baccalaureate work towards certification can be applied to a master's program in Curriculum and Instruction in UW's College of Education. These seventy Noyce Scholars are mentored in the first few years of their teaching careers by previous Noyce Scholars. In addition, they are supported by yearly cohort meetings, on-site visitations, community-based blog interactions, face-to-face interactions, and electronic newsletter spotlights and distribution. The 5-year goals of SWARMS include: 1) Engage and nurture the UW community of scholars as partners in filling the STEM pipeline's demand for highly qualified science and mathematics teachers in high need secondary schools; 2) Recruit a diverse group of talented military veterans and individuals who hold graduate and undergraduate STEM degrees; 3) Prepare 70 highly qualified, Wyoming certified, secondary science and mathematics teachers to teach rigorous content through inquiry-driven approaches steeped in integrated STEM; 4) Strengthen and expand innovative programs (post-bac) and test new recruitment techniques for targeted prospective teachers; 5) Promote science and mathematics teacher retention in high need schools by developing learning communities to support cohort groups based on best practices in early career teacher mentoring; and 6) Study and iteratively build SWARMS for sustainability, replication, and dissemination.SWARMS, Sustaining Wyoming's Advancing Reach in Mathematics and Science, is committed to certifying future mathematics and science teachers of Wyoming in order to sustain growth and build upon local STEM talent to develop future generations of STEM-literate youth.