NebraskaSCIENCE: A School-University Partnership to Develop Exemplary Science Teachers in Nebraska

内布拉斯加州大学奥马哈分校(UNO)将实施Noyce Track 1项目，招聘、准备和支持至少25名生物、化学、地理/地质学和物理学科的本科生，成为训练有素的中学科学教师。项目活动将通过使用具体的教学方法，培养具有深厚的STEM内容专长的具有文化响应性的科学教师。它将使诺伊斯学者积极参与科学进程，以便他们能够让来自不同背景的青年参与科学事业。诺伊斯学者将从一开始就参与专业发展活动，直到他们在高需求学区任教的最初几年。该项目将建立在联合国组织和奥马哈公立学校(OPS)之间正在进行的合作努力的基础上，这些努力扩大和加强了培养科学专业学生的途径，以满足高需求学区对科学教师的需求。项目活动将指导学生完成理科学士学位，包括中级教师资格认证。该项目将为一年级和二年级的STEM本科生提供有组织的实习机会，以获得在OPS中与高需求学校的学生合作的经验；为三年级和四年级的STEM本科生提供财务、学术和专业领导力发展支持，为他们在高需求学区任教做好准备；以及为诺伊斯学者校友在中学课堂上提供持续的专业发展支持。Noyce项目将使用一个系统的评估计划，不断衡量其倡议的总体影响，并就关键战略的有效性提供形成反馈，以便在五年赠款期间进行改进。

The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) will undertake a Noyce Track 1 project to recruit, prepare, and support a minimum of 25 undergraduate majors in the disciplines of biology, chemistry, geography/geology, and physics to become well-prepared secondary school science teachers. Project activities will develop culturally responsive science teachers with deep STEM content expertise through the use of specific pedagogies. It will actively involve the Noyce Scholars in the process of science so that they can engage youth from diverse backgrounds in the scientific enterprise. Noyce Scholars will participate in professional development activities from inception through their early years of teaching in high-need school districts. The project will build upon ongoing collaborative efforts between UNO and the Omaha Public Schools (OPS) that expand and strengthen the pathways that prepare science majors to meet the demand for science teachers in high-need school districts. Project activities will guide students through Bachelor of Science degrees, including secondary teacher certification. The project will provide structured internships for first- and second-year STEM undergraduates to gain experience working with students from high-need schools in OPS; provide financial, academic, and professional leadership development support for third- and fourth-year STEM undergraduates to prepare them for teaching in high-need school districts; and provide ongoing professional development support for Noyce Scholars alumni in secondary school classrooms. This Noyce project will use a systematic evaluation plan that continuously measures the overall impact of its initiatives and provides formative feedback on the effectiveness of key strategies so that refinements can be made over the five-year grant period.