Noyce Scholarship Support for Community College Transfer Students

德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校(UTSA)正在为阿拉莫社区学院区39名有学术天赋的转学学生提供奖学金，这些学生准备成为科学和数学教师。这项努力将涉及科学学院、教育与人类发展学院、阿拉莫社区学院区内的学校以及德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥及其周围的几个当地高需求学区的合作伙伴关系。该项目遵循了UTSA以前建立的模式，在UTSA内主修STEM的学生被证明是成功的。创造卓越数学与科学教育(GE2MS)计划为职前教师提供指导和学术支持，使学生有效地融入UTSA的职前活动(包括暑期衔接学院)，同时为学生提供参加严格的科学和数学准备计划的机会。此外，项目人员正在继续为新教师提供支持，包括获得教师卓越学院(ATE)提供的入职支持服务和职业过渡指导(CTG)，并通过电子实践社区定期举办在线课程，为新教师遇到的课程挑战提供支持、建议、指导和帮助。对Noyce GE2MS计划的评估还提供了关于辅导和学术支持的有效性的信息，并介绍了如何组织这些活动，以增加高素质中学STEM教师的招聘和留住。

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is providing scholarships to 39 academically talented transfer students from the Alamo Community College District preparing to become science and mathematics teachers. The effort will involve a partnership of the College of Sciences, the College of Education and Human Development, schools within the Alamo Community College District and several local high needs school districts in and around San Antonio, Texas. The program follows a previously established model at UTSA shown to be successful with students majoring in STEM within UTSA. The Generating Educational Excellence in Math and Science (GE2MS) program is providing pre-service teachers with mentoring and academic support to effectively integrate the students into the pre-service activities at UTSA (including a summer bridging institute) while providing the students the opportunity to participate in a rigorous science and mathematics preparation program. In addition, project personnel are offering continuing support for the new teachers including access to induction support services offered by the Academy for Teacher Excellence (ATE) and Career Transitioning Guidance (CTG), and conducting regular online sessions through an eCommunity of Practice to provide support, advice, mentoring and help with curricular challenges encountered by new teachers. The evaluation of the Noyce GE2MS program is also providing information on the efficacy of mentoring and academic support and to inform how these activities can be structured to increase the recruitment and retention of highly qualified secondary STEM teachers.