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

在美国国家科学基金会Robert Noyce教师奖学金项目的资助下，Noyce@FGCU正在招募生物、化学、数学和工程专业的STEM本科学生，并为他们成为6-12年级的科学或数学教师做好准备。该项目将在5年内资助19名学者。在这个项目中，佛罗里达海湾海岸大学的教育学院和艺术与科学学院正在与佛罗里达西南部的Lee、Hendry、Glades、Charlotte和Collier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)增加Noyce@FGCU课堂教师的成功；3)支持Noyce@FGCU学者的教师认证。该计划的要素包括：A)一个强有力的两层招聘策略，招募未被充分代表的城市和农村少数民族、第一代大学生和地区高中生。招聘领域包括：a)学习助理计划，b) STEM专业的TRIO编程，c)高中服务不足的人口招聘，d) 6-12个教室的服务学习机会，e)参观入门STEM教室，f)咨询研讨会和小册子，b)以研讨会，会议和暑期STEM经验的形式进行职前充实，连接三年级到四年级；——C)岗前辅导、课程、状态测试准备；—D)第一年在职COE FGCU教练计划；E)为奖学金获得者在高需求学校的教学做准备的具体努力。评估活动将包括努力评估其项目的具体组成部分，招聘工作的成功：他们与招聘目标（如该地区的高需求学校和大学内的关键部门和办公室）建立的伙伴关系的强度；他们吸引的申请人的数量、多样性、奖学金和对服务的奉献精神、学者对丰富活动和指导服务的反应；以及学者们在第一年的教学质量，包括使用有效的教学实践和对措施的敏感性，以吸引他们将与之合作的各种学生。在项目的形成和总结阶段，将使用包括调查、访谈和焦点小组以及观察学者行动在内的混合方法作为评估/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.