Preparing Future Mathematics and Science Teachers through the Noyce Scholarship Program at Savannah State University and Savannah Technical College

对于Robert Noyce教师奖学金第一阶段项目，来自萨凡纳州立大学（SSU）的研究人员将与合作机构密切合作，招募，指导，教育和认证学生成为高素质的STEM初中和高中教师，以帮助缓解这一国家需求领域的劳动力短缺。项目团队将帮助项目毕业生进入高需求学校，然后在他们进入STEM教学行业时为他们提供重要和及时的支持。为了满足萨凡纳查塔姆县公立学校系统（SCCPSS）对STEM教师的高需求，SSU将与SCCPSS和两年制学校萨凡纳技术学院（STC）合作，增加高质量、技术教育认证的STEM教师的数量，准备在高需求的学校任教。特别是，该Noyce项目将培养至少28名数学和工程专业的本科生和8名STEM专业人员，成为6 - 12年级数学和/或科学专业的中学或高中教师。SSU作为一所历史悠久的黑人大学，其94%的学生是非裔美国人，其活动不仅将提高STEM劳动力的多样性，而且还将有助于更广泛地了解如何定制教师培训计划，以接触和准备非裔美国人和其他代表性不足的少数民族学生，以成功地从事STEM教学事业。整个项目将采用几个相互关联的组成部分来招聘、培训、指导和留住新的高素质STEM教师。这些战略组成部分将包括：(i)促进广泛的外联和有针对性的征聘活动；（ii）为一、二年级本科生提供实习和暑期项目（研讨会、观察和动手教学经验），作为招聘过程的一部分，以激发他们对教学的兴趣；（iii）为有意成为教师的STEM专业学生提供奖学金；（iv）通过SSU建立的教师教育计划，提供一个具有挑战性，解决问题，以探究为基础的合作学习环境，以解决现实世界的应用；执行实地经验活动，以协助培训和留用过程；（vi）协调专业发展、指导机会和其他入职支持，以确保成功过渡到教学工作，并提高早期职业教师毕业生的保留率；（七）研究和评估这些举措的效果。评估工具旨在提供定量和定性信息，作为研究和持续改进项目的基础。

For this Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Phase I project, investigators from Savannah State University (SSU) will work closely with partner institutions to recruit, mentor, educate, and certify students to become highly qualified STEM middle school and high school teachers to help alleviate workforce shortages in this area of national need. The project team will help place graduates from the program in high-need schools and then provide them with important and timely support when they enter the STEM teaching profession. Responding to the high demand for STEM teachers in the Savannah Chatham County Public School System (SCCPSS), SSU will partner with SCCPSS and two-year school Savannah Technical College (STC) to increase the number of high quality, technology education-certified STEM teachers prepared to teach in high-need schools. In particular, this Noyce project will prepare at least twenty-eight (28) undergraduate mathematics and engineering majors and eight (8) STEM professionals to become certified middle school or high school teachers of mathematics and/or science grades 6 - 12. SSU's activities as a Historically Black University with a student body of 94% African-American not only will enhance STEM workforce diversity, but will also contribute to a broader understanding of how teacher preparation programs can be tailored to reach and prepare African-American and other underrepresented minority students for successful STEM teaching careers.The overall program will employ several interconnected components to recruit, train, mentor, and retain new highly qualified STEM teachers. These strategical components will include: (i) promoting extensive outreach and targeted recruitment activities; (ii) providing internships and summer programs (workshops, observation, and hands-on teaching experiences) for first and second year undergraduates as part of the recruitment process to generate interest in teaching; (iii) funding scholarships for selected junior and senior STEM majors who wish to become teachers; (iv) offering a challenging, problem solving, inquiry based, collaborating learning environment to address real-world applications through SSU's established teacher education program; (v) implementing field experience activities to aid the training and retaining process; (vi) orchestrating professional development, mentoring opportunities, and other induction support to ensure a successful transition to teaching and improved retention for the early career teacher graduates; and (vii) researching and assessing the effects of these initiatives. The assessment tools are designed to provide both quantitative and qualitative information as a basis for research and continuous improvement of the program.