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

对具有相当深度的教学内容和教学技能的STEM学科的教师的需求，以及吸引来自不同背景的学生取得成功的战略，都得到了很好的证明。该项目由新泽西城市大学(NJCU)聘请哈德逊县社区学院、卑尔根社区学院和米德尔塞克斯县学院，将招聘、准备和支持至少20名低年级和高年级的本科生STEM专业人员和7名致力于在高需求学区任教的STEM专业人员。诺伊斯奖学金获得者将得到一项有组织的补充指导、实践经验学习、指导、社交和学术网络、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内容和教学知识，为他们提供服务于不同背景的学生的技能，并在高需求地区留住这些高素质的教师。作为一家少数族裔服务机构，NJCU处于有利地位，可以让STEM中代表性不足的群体中的个人成为教师。这将为学生多样化的教室提供榜样，并将加强高需求学区的STEM课程的教和学。该项目将针对几个潜在的学生群体进行多层次的招聘努力：NJCU STEM专业、社区大学STEM专业和未确定的专业。招聘将提早开始，届时一年级和二年级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专业将通过与当地三所社区大学的合作伙伴关系来招聘。参与NJCU教职员工和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专门知识。除了提供向不同STEM和教育领域的专家学习的机会外，该项目还将通过讲习班在不同的诺伊斯学者群体中发展实践社区，为职前奖学金获得者创造一个向在职奖学金获得者学习并与其学习的场所。作为专业人士，诺伊斯学者将有机会参加区域和国家教育会议，并实地访问有高度需求的学校，进一步让他们参与真实的与教学有关的体验。诺伊斯学者将在他们的学生教学过程中继续发展，在这个过程中，他们将在某一时刻完全负责课堂。他们将受益于三种不同类型的导师：STEM教员导师、教育系教员导师和在职教师导师。为了影响诺伊斯学者学校作为高需求学区有效教师的持续性，该项目将在诺伊斯学者学校最后一批教师生涯的前四年提供由新泽西州立大学教育学院提供的专业发展活动。最终，新泽西公立学校将受益于27名新的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，从而走向成功。

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.