Winthrop Initiative for STEM Educators

有一个有据可查的需要有能力，自信，并致力于干教师在高需求的学区服务。 通过这个第2阶段诺伊斯项目，温斯洛普倡议的干教育工作者，智慧，将提供奖学金，以产生32名新教师在初中和高中水平谁将被许可教数学，生物，化学，和/或一般科学在南卡罗来纳州的状态。 这些新教师中的每一个都将通过所选STEM领域的学士学位在内容领域打下坚实的基础。该项目将通过几个本科生和研究生初始许可途径提供支持。WISE还将通过提供年度暑期实习计划（旨在鼓励学生将STEM教育视为一种职业）来增强大约48个高成就STEM专业的本科生体验，该计划将包括在高需求学校的学习和服务学习领域的真实研究。约克技术学院，一个两年制的机构，将与温斯洛普大学在招聘，指导和诺伊斯学者的支持合作。 由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划资助的第二阶段项目还将进行一项纵向研究，以研究他们的职前教师教育工作的几个方面。 WISE为在STEM领域攻读专业的学生提供了三条成为教师的途径。 第一个选项是专为本科数学和生物学专业谁决定早期追求教师的准备。 STEM专业本科课程的最后两年将提供奖学金支持，允许获得数学，生物学和化学认证，并可选择延长中等年级和普通科学的许可证。 第二种选择是学士后STEM专业，他们参加课程以完成教学艺术硕士（MAT）课程，从而获得初始教师认证。提供快速通道（3学期选项）和更灵活的课程，通常需要四个学期的课程。 第三种选择是为了将本科和研究生课程的联合收割机方面结合起来。 它允许学生开始在学校工作作为一个本科生，并在第五年完成研究生水平的认证。这种新的模式提供了灵活的研究，选修课，并允许随着时间的推移纳入实地考察的平衡的方法。 在该项目的过程中，调查小组将继续纵向数据收集，以确定与合格的STEM教育工作者的招聘和保留相关的有效模式。 有待审查的领域包括：招聘工作; 2年制大学转学生的过渡经验;暑期研究经验;持久性;内容专家对性格和技能的影响，以及支持高需求学校新STEM教师的基础设施。 最终，WISE不仅将为专业队伍贡献32名合格的STEM教师，而且WISE有潜力为高需求学校的高素质STEM教师的招聘，发展和保留提供研究支持的最佳实践。

There is a well-documented need for competent, confident, and committed STEM teachers to serve in high-need school districts. Through this Phase 2 Noyce project, the Winthrop Initiative for STEM Educators, WISE, will provide scholarship funds to produce thirty-two new teachers at the middle and high school level who will be licensed to teach mathematics, biology, chemistry, and/or general science in the State of South Carolina. Each of these new teachers will have a solid foundation in the content area through a bachelor's degree in the chosen STEM field. The project will provide support through several undergraduate and graduate initial licensure pathways. WISE will also enhance the undergraduate experience for approximately forty-eight high-achieving STEM majors by providing an annual summer internship program (designed to encourage students to consider STEM education as a career) that will include authentic research in the area of study and service learning in high-need schools. York Technical College, a 2-year institution, will partner with Winthrop University in the recruitment, mentoring, and support of Noyce scholars. This Phase 2 project, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program will also conduct a longitudinal study to examine several aspects of their pre-service teacher education work. WISE provides students who pursue majors in a STEM field three pathways for becoming a teacher. The first option is designed for undergraduate mathematics and biology majors who decide early to pursue teacher preparation. Scholarship support will be provided for the final two years of a STEM major's undergraduate program allowing for certification in mathematics, biology, and chemistry, with options to extend licensure for middle grades and general science. The second option is for post-baccalaureate STEM majors who take coursework to complete a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program leading to initial teacher certification. Both a fast track (3-term option) and a more flexible program that typically requires four semesters of coursework are offered. The third option is designed to combine aspects of the undergraduate and graduate program. It allows students to start working in schools as an undergraduate and complete certification at the graduate level in year five. This new model provides flexibility for research, electives, and a balanced approach that allows for fieldwork incorporated over time. During the course of this project the investigating team will continue longitudinal data collection in order to identify effective models related to recruitment and retention of qualified STEM educators. Areas to be examined include: recruitment efforts; transition experiences for 2-year college transfer students; summer research experiences; persistence; influence of content specialists on dispositions and skills, and the infrastructure to support new STEM teachers in high-need schools. Ultimately, not only will WISE contribute thirty-two well-qualified STEM teachers to the professional workforce, but WISE has the potential to contribute research-supported best practices for the recruitment, development, and retention of highly qualified STEM teachers for high-need schools.