Recruiting and Preparing STEM Majors as Secondary Teachers for High-Need School Districts in New Jersey

STEM学科的教师需要具有相当深度的内容和教学技能，以及吸引来自不同背景的学生取得成功的策略，这是有充分证据的。在这个项目中，新泽西州城市大学（NJCU）与哈德逊县社区学院、卑尔根社区学院和米德尔塞克斯县学院合作，将招募、准备和支持至少20名本科STEM专业的大三和大四学生，以及7名致力于在高需求学区任教的STEM专业人士。诺伊斯奖学金获得者将得到有组织的补充教学、实践体验式学习、指导、社会和学术网络、专业发展和社区建设活动的支持，这些活动将增强和加强奖学金获得者的教学内容和教学知识，为他们提供服务不同背景学生的技能，并增加这些高素质教师在高需求地区的留存率。作为一所为少数族裔服务的机构，NJCU在培养STEM中代表性不足的群体的个人成为教师方面处于有利地位。这将为拥有不同学生的教室提供榜样，并将加强高需求学区STEM课程的教与学。该项目将开展多层次的招聘工作，针对几个潜在的学生群体：NJCU STEM专业、社区大学STEM专业和未确定专业。招聘将提前开始，大一和大二的学生将获得暑期实习机会，让他们了解教STEM意味着什么。社区大学STEM专业的学生将通过与三所当地社区学院的合作来招募。参与NJCU教师和K-12教师的早期实地经验和指导将为Noyce学者提供坚实的基础，以发展他们的教学和学科特定知识。除了提供向不同STEM和教育领域的专家学习的机会外，该项目还将通过研讨会在不同的Noyce学者群体中发展实践社区，为在职奖学金获得者提供学习和与在职奖学金获得者互动的场所。Noyce学者作为专业人士将有机会参加地区和国家教育会议，并实地访问高需求学校，进一步参与真实的教学相关经验。诺伊斯学者将在他们的学生教学课程中继续发展，他们将在某一时刻完全负责一个课堂。他们将受益于三种不同类型的导师：STEM教师导师、教育教师导师和在职教师导师。为了使诺伊斯学者能够在高需求的学区持续有效地担任教师，该项目将在最后一批诺伊斯学者的教学生涯的头四年中，提供由NJCU教育学院提供的专业发展活动。最终，新泽西州的公立学校将受益于27名新的坚定、自信、准备充分的STEM教师，他们拥有STEM学科的专业，并配备了专门设计的教学方法，为来自不同背景的学生提供学习经验，从而取得成功。

The need for teachers of STEM disciplines with considerable depth of content and pedagogical skill, as well as strategies for engaging students from diverse backgrounds to achieve success, is well documented. This project, in which the New Jersey City University (NJCU) engages Hudson County Community College, Bergen Community College, and Middlesex County College, will recruit, prepare, and support a minimum of 20 undergraduate STEM majors in their junior and senior year and 7 STEM professionals who are committed to teach in high-need school districts. The Noyce scholars will be supported by an organized program of supplemental instruction, hands-on experiential learning, mentoring, social and academic networking, professional development, and community building activities that will enhance and strengthen the content and pedagogical knowledge of the scholarship recipients, provide them with a skill set to serve students from diverse backgrounds, and increase the retention of these highly qualified teachers in high-need districts. As a minority serving institution, NJCU is well-positioned to prepare individuals from groups underrepresented in STEM to become teachers. This will provide role models to classrooms with diverse students and will strengthen the teaching and learning of STEM courses in high-need school districts.The project will have multi-layered recruitment efforts that target several groups of potential students: NJCU STEM majors, community college STEM majors, and undecided majors. Recruitment will start early when freshman and sophomore students are offered summer internships to expose them to what it means to teach STEM. Community college STEM majors will be recruited through partnerships with three local community colleges. Participation in early field experience and mentoring by NJCU faculty and K-12 teachers will provide Noyce Scholars with a strong foundation for developing their pedagogical and discipline specific knowledge. In addition to providing opportunities for learning from experts in the different STEM and education fields, the project will develop communities of practice among the different cohorts of Noyce scholars through workshops which create a venue for interaction of the pre-service scholarship recipients learning from and with the in-service scholarship recipients. Noyce Scholars as professionals will have the opportunity to participate in regional and national educational conferences and site visits to high-need schools, further engaging them in authentic teaching-related experience. Noyce Scholars will continue their development during their student teaching course in which they will at one point take full responsibility for a classroom. They will benefit from three different types of mentors: STEM faculty mentors, Education faculty mentors, and in-service teacher mentors. In order to affect persistence of the Noyce Scholars as effective teachers in high-need school districts, the project will provide professional development activities offered by the NJCU College of Education through the first four years of the last cohort of Noyce Scholars' teaching careers. Ultimately, New Jersey public schools will benefit from 27 new committed, confident, and well-prepared STEM teachers who have a major in a STEM discipline and who are equipped with pedagogical approaches specifically designed to provide learning experiences to students from diverse backgrounds which lead to success.