Western Regional Noyce Initiative

培养科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域的未来教师对于培养高质量的STEM劳动力和具有STEM素养的民众至关重要。西部地区Noyce倡议（WRNI）通过会议、暑期学院和网络研讨会为位于美国西部地区的Noyce项目提供专业发展机会，使Noyce学者和Noyce教师有机会分享他们的经验并学习新的基于研究的教学方法。WRNI正在帮助增加该地区学校未来STEM领导者的数量；随着越来越多的西部地区国家全面采用或将其纳入STEM课程，准备有效实施下一代科学标准和/或共同核心州标准的领导者。对于Noyce的领导者来说，有机会更好地了解全国和地方的Noyce项目评估工作。研究成果是共享的，那些多年来成功实施Noyce项目的校园会指导新校园，扩大这一倡议的影响。这项为期两年的计划为来自西部地区多达90所大学的320多名Noyce学者、研究员和教师提供了一个机会，通过每年为期两天的年度会议，分享经验，学习新的教学策略，并升级内容知识。这些会议基于当前的教育趋势（例如，新的标准，认知科学的最新研究，以及对差异化教学和英语学习者的重视），并基于先前的会议评估。这些会议使与会者接触到资源和专业发展培训的方法，这些方法采用了在教师准备和入职方面行之有效的做法。参与者能够通过演示、并发会议、个人对个人交互和后续在线网络与他们的同伴和同事协作并分享经验、专业知识和技能。年度会议还包括Noyce领导人的特别会议，重点讨论项目规划和评估协议的关键要素以及经验丰富的项目的成果。科学研究所将Hestenes建模方法纳入教学，重点是共同核心国家标准和下一代科学标准。数学暑期学院侧重于使用课程研究方法，强调数学共同核心标准。该项目强调了这些新兴标准对STEM教学的重要性，并认识到并非西部地区的所有州都将在WRNI项目期间采用这些标准。夏季学院为大约140名诺伊斯学者和教师提供了在2014年和2015年两个夏季参加诺伊斯校园专业发展项目的机会。

Preparing future teachers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is critical for the development of a high quality STEM workforce and a STEM literate populace. The Western Regional Noyce Initiative (WRNI) is providing professional development opportunities for Noyce projects located in the western region of the United States through conferences, summer institutes and webinars, enabling Noyce Scholars and Noyce Teachers opportunities to share their experiences and to learn new research-based approaches to teaching. WRNI is helping to increase the number of future STEM leaders in the region's schools; leaders who are prepared to effectively implement the Next Generation Science Standards and/or the Common Core State Standards as more Western Region states fully adopt or include them in their STEM curricula. For Noyce leaders, there are opportunities for a better understanding of the Noyce program evaluation efforts both nationally and locally. Research findings are shared and those campuses that have had years of successful Noyce programs mentor newer campuses, broadening the impact of this initiative.This two-year initiative provides an opportunity for over 320 Noyce Scholars, Fellows, and Teachers from up to 90 campuses throughout the Western Region to share experiences, learn new teaching strategies and upgrade content knowledge through an annual two-day conference in each year of the two-year project. The conferences are based upon current trends in education (e.g., new standards, recent research in cognitive science, and emphasis on differentiated instruction and English Language Learners) and are based on prior conference evaluations. The conferences expose participants to resources and professional development training in methods that employ proven practices in teacher preparation and induction. Participants are able to collaborate and share experiences, expertise, and skills with their peers and colleagues through presentations, concurrent sessions, person-to-person interactions, and follow-up online networking. The annual conferences also include special sessions for Noyce Leaders focusing on critical elements of project programming and evaluation protocols and outcomes from veteran programs. The science institutes incorporate the Hestenes Modeling approach to teaching with an emphasis on Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards. Math summer institutes focus on using the Lesson Study approach with an emphasis on Math Common Core Standards. The project emphasizes these emerging standards as important to STEM teaching with the understanding that not all of the states in the Western Region will have adopted the standards during the WRNI project. The summer institutes provide an opportunity for approximately 140 Noyce Scholars and Teachers to attend a professional development program at a Noyce campus in each of two summers (2014 and 2015).