Recruit and Engage - Mathematics And Science Teachers, while Conducting a Longitudinal Study of Factors Influencing Effectiveness

培养更多高素质的科学和数学教师是国家的优先事项。通过国家科学基金会的罗伯特诺伊斯教师奖学金计划的资助，这个第二阶段诺伊斯项目将继续在纽贝里学院的第一阶段诺伊斯奖发起的大部分工作。 该招聘和参与-数学和科学教师（RE-MAST）第二阶段项目将在未来五年内产生9至16名额外的STEM教师，为项目中的所有各方增加领导力和导师培训，并对有助于诺伊斯奖学金获得者的职前和在职有效性及其在教学行业的持久性和领导力的因素进行纵向研究。 在这个第二阶段项目中，纽贝里学院将与通过行动、创新和网络（RETAIN）卓越中心留住和赋予教师权力合作，该中心是一个国家支持的研究中心，专注于留住教师，目前位于纽贝里学院。 费尔菲尔德、纽贝里、列克星敦和南卡罗来纳州里奇兰县的合作学区将为诺伊斯学者提供多样化的环境，让他们探索和体验教学，同时受益于大量具有坚实科学和/或数学背景的新生STEM教师，教学技能和决心的每个学生在他们的教室里学习相应的数学和RE-MAST第二阶段项目的具体活动包括：1）招聘9至16名额外的STEM专业教师; 2）为Noyce学者提供教育支持; 3）为导师、Noyce教学研究员提供专业发展机会。（前诺伊斯学者），并授予人员;以及4）追求与教师保留或数学和科学教师在教学专业中的持久性有关的严格研究议程。这项研究将检查在程序层面和诺伊斯学者水平的因素。 该项目的意图是明确的，通过分享研究成果，包括协议，工具和专业发展材料，适合实践学校专业人员和教师教育工作者使用，以及通过学术出版的结果和发现，使他人受益。

Developing more, highly qualified science and mathematics teachers is a national priority. Through funding from the National Science Foundation's Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, this Phase II Noyce project will continue much of the work initiated in Newberry College's Phase I Noyce award. This Recruit and Engage--Mathematics AND Science Teachers (RE-MAST) Phase II project will produce nine to sixteen additional STEM teachers over the course of the next five years, add leadership and mentor training for all parties in the project, and also conduct a longitudinal study of factors that contribute to Noyce Scholar recipients' pre- and in-service effectiveness and their persistence and leadership in the teaching profession. In this Phase II project, Newberry College will partner with the Retain and Empower Teachers through Action, Innovation, and Networking (RETAIN) Center of Excellence, a state-supported research hub focused on teacher retention, which is currently housed at Newberry College. The partner school districts of Fairfield, Newberry, Lexington, and Richland Counties in South Carolina will provide diverse settings for Noyce Scholars to explore and experience teaching, while at the same time benefitting from the number of nascent STEM teachers with solid backgrounds in science and/or mathematics, pedagogical skills and dispositions of determination for the potential of each student in their classrooms to learn consequential mathematics and science.Specific activities of the RE-MAST Phase II project include 1) recruiting nine to sixteen additional STEM majors into teaching; 2) delivering educational supports for Noyce Scholars; 3) providing professional development opportunities for Mentors, Noyce Teaching Fellows (former Noyce Scholars), and grant personnel; and 4) pursuing a rigorous research agenda related to teacher retention, or persistence of mathematics and science teachers in the teaching profession. This research study will examine factors at both the program level and the Noyce Scholar level. The project is explicit in its intent to benefit others through the sharing of research derivatives, including protocols, instruments, and professional development materials appropriate for use by practicing school professionals and teacher educators, as well as through scholarly publication of results and findings.