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纽伯里学院第一阶段诺伊斯奖启动的大部分工作。这一招聘和聘用数学和科学教师(RE-MAST)第二阶段项目将在未来五年内增加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任职前和在职的有效性以及他们在教师职业中的坚持性和领导力的因素进行纵向研究。在这个第二阶段的项目中，纽伯里学院将与通过行动、创新和网络留住和增强教师能力(RETAIN)卓越中心(RETAIN)合作，这是一个国家支持的研究中心，专注于教师留任，目前位于纽伯里学院。南卡罗来纳州的费尔菲尔德、纽伯里、列克星敦和里奇兰县的伙伴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，同时受益于一些新入职的STEM教师，他们拥有坚实的科学和/或数学背景、教学技能和对每个学生在课堂上学习结果数学和科学的决心。RE-MAST第二阶段项目的具体活动包括：1)额外招募9至16名STEM专业的教师从事教学；2)为诺伊斯学者提供教育支持；3)为导师、诺伊斯教学研究员(前诺伊斯学者)和补助金人员提供专业发展机会；以及4)寻求与教师留任或数学和科学教师在教师职业中的持久力相关的严格研究议程。这项研究将考察项目层面和诺伊斯学者层面的因素。该项目的明确意图是，通过分享研究衍生工具，包括适用于执业学校专业人员和教师教育工作者使用的协议、工具和专业发展材料，以及通过学术出版结果和发现，造福他人。

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.