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

维持怀俄明州在数学和科学方面的领先地位（swarm）将在5年期间（2014-2019年）认证70（70）名新的数学和科学教师。SWARMS是Noyce的第一阶段合作项目，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）文理学院（A&amp；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：华盛顿大学退伍军人服务办公室、弗朗西斯·沃伦空军基地、怀俄明州国民警卫队和怀俄明州空军国民警卫队；4)高需求合作学区，包括：Big Horn， Fremont, Goshen, Laramie, Hot Springs, Natrona， unta和Washakie。SWARMS利用并扩展了威斯康星大学与怀俄明州教育部、社区学院、军事合作伙伴和高需求合作伙伴学区的现有合作。怀俄明州迫切需要大幅提高高贫困、低绩效学校的科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教师的数量和质量，为了响应这一需求，SWARMS正在扩大学士后项目，吸引退伍军人和STEM研究生和本科学位的持有者。swarm的目标是数学、化学、地球科学和物理专业的毕业生。SWARMS为本科生和毕业生提供Noyce奖学金或津贴，以支持70名具有强大STEM背景的教师的发展，这些教师有军事经验或STEM学科的学士学位，并获得二级教学证书。SWARMS正在反复测试新的招聘策略，重新定位学士学位后的教师认证课程，培育社区队列模型，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。学士学位后最多12个小时的认证工作可以应用于西澳大学教育学院的课程与教学硕士课程。这70位诺伊斯学者在他们教学生涯的头几年由以前的诺伊斯学者指导。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时事通讯聚光灯和分发的支持。swarm的5年目标包括：1)吸引和培养西澳大学的学者社区作为合作伙伴，以填补STEM管道对高需求中学高素质科学和数学教师的需求；2)招募有才华的退伍军人和拥有STEM研究生和本科学位的个人；3)准备70名高素质，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)加强和扩大创新项目（post-bac），并测试针对潜在目标教师的新招聘技术；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，促进高需求学校的科学和数学教师留任；6)研究和迭代构建可持续性、复制和传播的swarm。swarm，维持怀俄明州在数学和科学方面的领先地位，致力于认证怀俄明州未来的数学和科学教师，以维持增长并建立在当地STEM人才的基础上，培养未来几代具有STEM素养的青年。

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.