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当务之急。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，这个第二阶段的诺伊斯项目将继续纽伯里学院诺伊斯奖第一阶段的大部分工作。“数学与科学教师招募与聘用”（RE-MAST）第二阶段项目将在未来五年内再培养9至16名STEM教师，为项目各方增加领导力和导师培训，并对诺伊斯奖学金获得者在职前和在职效率以及他们在教学行业的持久性和领导力的影响因素进行纵向研究。在这个第二阶段的项目中，纽伯里学院将与“通过行动、创新和网络留住和赋权教师”（Retain）卓越中心合作，这是一个由国家支持的研究中心，专注于教师留住，目前位于纽伯里学院。南卡罗来纳的费尔菲尔德、纽伯里、列克星敦和里奇兰县的合作学区将为诺伊斯学者探索和体验教学提供多样化的环境，同时受益于大量具有扎实科学和/或数学背景、教学技能和决心的新兴STEM教师，他们的教室里每个学生都有学习重要数学和科学的潜力。RE-MAST第二期项目的具体活动包括：1)招收9至16名STEM专业的学生加入教学队伍；2)为Noyce学者提供教育支持；3)为导师、Noyce教学研究员（原Noyce学者）和资助人员提供专业发展机会；4)追求与教师保留相关的严格研究议程，或数学和科学教师在教学职业中的持久性。本研究将考察项目水平和诺伊斯学者水平的因素。该项目的目的很明确，即通过分享研究成果，包括适合学校专业人员和教师教育者使用的协议、工具和专业发展材料，以及成果和发现的学术出版物，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.