Retaining the Math & Science Teachers We Need: High Quality STEM Teachers in High Schools

加州大学圣克鲁斯分校的Noyce教师奖学金二期项目正在研究高需求学校数学和科学教师的保留和流失情况，以便更好地为改善公立学校STEM教师的供应和质量的策略提供信息。第一阶段项目的结果表明，仅靠学术和教学培训不足以确保服务不足的学校留住教师。具体来说，最初的数据表明，工作条件，尤其是招聘和课堂作业的做法，可能会迫使Noyce学者教师离开他们的学校，甚至离开这个职业。该项目具体说明了在学校和教师中制定的政策和做法，这些政策和做法导致高需求学校保留高素质教师。该研究项目采用嵌套案例设计，跟踪研究了在三个不同地区工作的32名Noyce学者教师，从第一阶段项目开始，到他们未来三年的教学。教师的职业决定和轨迹正在其就业地点的背景下进行跟踪和审查。目前正在深入了解吸引高素质教师的组织环境，以及导致在最初几年的教学之后保留教师的战略和做法。教师个人承诺、职业轨迹和决策与学校和地区人力资源政策和实践以及学校层面的工作条件之间的相互作用正在被描述。这项研究为当地和全国Noyce学者社区提供了有关确保稳定教师队伍的信息。调查结果将与师范生分享，以更好地指导他们找工作和选择机会。案例研究的结果被总结成一本专业手册，供教师和人力资源人员使用，内容涉及成功引导教师就业选择、安置和确保教师留任的工作条件的策略。

The Noyce Teacher Scholarship Phase II project at University of California-Santa Cruz is researching math and science teacher retention and attrition in high needs schools so as to better inform strategies to improve the supply and quality of STEM teachers in public schools. Results from the Phase I project demonstrated the insufficiency of academic and pedagogical training alone to ensure teacher retention in underserved schools. Specifically, the initial data suggested that working conditions, and especially hiring and class assignment practices, might be driving Noyce Scholar Teachers out of their schools and even the profession. This project is specifying the enacted policies and practices in the schools and of the teachers that result in the retention of highly qualified teachers in high-needs schools.The research project is using a nested case design to follow the thirty-two Noyce Scholar Teachers working in three unique districts, from the Phase I project, through the next three years of their teaching. Teachers' career decisions and trajectories are being tracked and examined within the context of their sites of employment. Insight is being obtained on the organizational contexts that attract high-qualified teachers and the strategies and practices that lead to retention beyond the first few years of teaching. The interplay between individual teacher commitment, career trajectory and decision making, with school and district human resource policy and practices, and with school-level working conditions, is being characterized.This research is informing the local and national Noyce Scholar community about ensuring a stable teacher workforce. The results are being shared with teacher education students to better guide their job search and opportunity selection process. The case study findings are being summarized in a professional handbook for teachers and human resource personnel on strategies that lead to successful navigation of teacher employment selection, placement, and working conditions that ensures teacher retention.