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

内布拉斯加大学奥马哈分校（UNO）将承担一项Noyce Track 1项目，招募、准备和支持至少25名生物、化学、地理/地质和物理等学科的本科专业学生，使他们成为准备充分的中学科学教师。项目活动将通过使用特定的教学法培养具有深厚STEM内容专业知识的文化响应科学教师。它将积极让诺伊斯学者参与科学进程，以便他们能够吸引来自不同背景的青年参与科学事业。诺伊斯学者将参与专业发展活动，从开始到他们在高需求学区的早期教学。该项目将以联合国大学和奥马哈公立学校（OPS）之间正在进行的合作努力为基础，扩大和加强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获得理学学士学位，包括中学教师证书。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，以获得与OPS高需求学校的学生一起工作的经验；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的教学做好准备；为诺伊斯学者在中学课堂上的校友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，持续测量其倡议的整体影响，并对关键战略的有效性提供形成性反馈，以便在五年的资助期内进行改进。

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.