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

支持怀俄明州的数学和科学（SWARMS）的进步达到认证七十（70）新的数学和科学教师在5年内（2014-2019）。SWARMS是Noyce的第一阶段合作项目，加入了四个不同的团体，以提高怀俄明州的数学和科学教师的人才库。这四个团体包括：1）怀俄明州大学（UW），其中包括艺术科学学院（A S），教育学院和UW科学与数学教学中心; 2）西北学院，3）军事合作伙伴，包括：退伍军人服务UW办公室，弗朗西斯沃伦空军基地，怀俄明州国民警卫队和怀俄明州空军国民警卫队;和4）高需求合作学区，包括：大角，弗里蒙特，歌珊，拉勒米，温泉，纳特罗纳，尤因塔和瓦沙基。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。响应怀俄明州的迫切需要，以显着提高科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教师的数量和质量在高贫困，低性能的学校，SWARMS正在扩大学士后课程，以吸引退伍军人和持有STEM研究生和本科学位。SWARMS面向数学、化学、地球科学和物理专业的毕业生，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，这些教师具有军事经验或STEM学科的学士学位，以及获得中学教师证书。SWARMS正在反复测试新的招聘策略，重新定位学士后教师认证课程，培养社区队列模型，并在针对不同候选人群体的早期职业指导计划中实施最佳实践。长达12个小时的学士学位后的工作，以实现认证可以应用于硕士课程和教学在华盛顿大学的教育学院。这七十诺伊斯学者是指导在他们的教学生涯的头几年由以前的诺伊斯学者。 此外，他们还得到年度群组会议、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。SWARMS的5年目标包括：1）参与和培养UW学者社区作为合作伙伴，以满足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）准备70名高素质的，怀俄明州认证的中学科学和数学教师，通过沉浸在综合STEM中的探究驱动方法教授严格的内容; 4.加强和扩大创新方案（后bac）和测试新的招聘技术，为有针对性的未来教师;第五章）通过发展学习型社区，在早期职业生涯最佳实践的基础上支持同龄群体，促进高需求学校的科学和数学教师留用率教师指导; 6）研究和迭代构建SWARMS以实现可持续性、复制和传播。SWARMS，Sustaining怀俄明州的Advancing Reach in Mathematics and Science，致力于认证怀俄明州未来的数学和科学教师，以维持增长并建立当地STEM人才，培养未来几代懂STEM的年轻人。

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.