Giving back and looking forward: Enhancing and diversifying STEM teaching in Southwest Florida through recruitment and mentorship of homegrown talent.

在国家科学基金会罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划的资助下，诺伊斯@FGCU正在招聘生物、化学、数学和工程专业的本科生，并为他们成为6-12年级的科学或数学教师做准备。该项目将在5年内资助19名学者。在这个项目中，佛罗里达州墨西哥湾沿岸大学的教育、艺术和科学学院正在与佛罗里达州西南部的利县、亨德里县、格拉斯县、夏洛特县和科利尔县合作。Noyce@FGCU的主要目标包括1)增加6-12年级STEM课堂教师的数量，2)提高Noyce@FGCU课堂教师的成功，以及3)支持Noyce@FGCU学者的教师认证。该计划的内容包括：--a)一个强有力的两级招聘战略，招募代表不足的城乡少数民族和第一代大学生以及地区高中生。招聘领域包括：a)学习助理方案，b)STEM专业的三人方案，c)在高中招聘服务不足的人口，d)在6-12个教室提供服务学习机会，e)参观STEM入门教室，f)咨询研讨会和小册子，-B)以讲习班、会议和夏季STEM经验的形式在服务前进行丰富，将三年级和四年级联系起来；-c)职前指导、课程和州考试准备；-d)第一年在职培训方案；评估活动将包括以下方面的努力：评估项目的具体内容、招聘工作在以下方面的成功：他们与招聘对象(如地区内的高需求学校和大学内的关键部门和办公室)发展的伙伴关系的强度；他们吸引的申请者的数量、多样性、奖学金和对服务的投入；学者们对充实活动和提供的指导服务的反应；以及学者们在最初几年的教学努力的质量，涉及到使用有效的教学实践和对吸引不同学生参与的措施的敏感性。在项目的形成和结束阶段，将使用调查、访谈和重点小组以及对学者实际行动的观察等混合方法作为评估/评价工具。

With funding from the National Science Foundation's Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program, Noyce@FGCU is recruiting undergraduate STEM majors in Biology, Chemistry, Math, and Engineering and preparing them to become grades 6-12 Science or Math teachers. The project will fund 19 Scholars over 5-years. In this project, the Colleges of Education and Arts and Sciences of Florida Gulf Coast University are collaborating with the districts of Lee, Hendry, Glades, Charlotte, and Collier counties in southwest Florida. Primary objectives of Noyce@FGCU include 1) Increase the number of STEM classroom teachers for grades 6-12, 2) Increase the success of Noyce@FGCU classroom teachers, and 3) Support teacher certification of Noyce@FGCU scholars. Elements of the program include: --A) A robust, two-tier recruitment strategy that recruits under-represented urban and rural minority and first generation college students and area high school students. Areas of recruitment include: a) a Learning Assistant program, b) TRIO programming for STEM majors, c) under-served population recruitment in high schools, d) service-learning opportunities in 6-12 classrooms, e) visits to introductory STEM classrooms, and f) advisement seminars and brochures,--B) Pre-service enrichment in the form of workshops, conferences, and summer STEM experiences bridging the junior to senior year; --C) Pre-service mentoring, courses, and state test preparation; --D) A first-year in-service COE FGCU coaching program; and --E) Specific efforts to prepare the Scholars for teaching in high needs schools.Assessment activities will include efforts to assess specific components of their project , success of recruitment efforts in terms of: the strength of the partnerships they develop with recruiting targets such as high needs schools within the area and key departments and offices within the university; the numbers, diversity, scholarship and devotion to service among the applicants they attract, the Scholars reaction to enrichment activities and mentoring services offered; and the quality of the Scholars efforts during their first years of teaching as concerns the use of effective teaching practices and sensitivity to measures to engage the diverse set of students they will work with. Mixed methods including surveys, interviews and focus groups as well as observation of the Scholars in action will be used as assessment/evaluation tools at both the formative and summative stages of the project.