A Community Building Approach to Preparing Secondary Science and Math Teachers

在美国国家科学基金会罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划的资助下，迦太基·诺伊斯奖学金计划将招募生物、化学、数学和物理专业的本科生，并为他们成为6-12年级的科学和数学教师做好准备。这个轨道1诺伊斯项目将资助26奖学金获得者超过5年。在这个项目中，位于威斯康星州基诺沙的迦太基学院将与威斯康星州东南部的高需求初中和高中合作。 学者将被招募到教学许可计划与早期教学机会通过STEM教学沉浸在一月学期，并通过随后的研讨班。 奖学金获得者将在迦太基完善的夏季本科生研究经验中与教师一起进行真实的STEM研究。 这个为期10周的暑期项目还将为学者提供一个与在职科学和数学教师一起工作的机会，他们将被邀请参加为期4周的附属研究体验。该项目将通过STEM教学实践社区，为获得教学许可证之前和早期教学期间的学者提供导师机会。 社区建设活动将包括定期的任务导向会议和夏季务虚会，涉及综合STEM课程的创建以及有效和经验丰富的在职教师。 迦太基学院的STEM和教育教师联盟将与威斯康星州的中学合作实施一项独特的数学和科学教师招聘和准备计划。Carthage Noyce奖学金计划将优先考虑通过沉浸式，支持良好的教学经验进行早期招聘，并将通过特定的课程以及有针对性的临床经验为城市环境中成功的中学教学做好后续准备。 接触真实的科学和数学研究将提高教师准备的深度，并为职前和在职教师提供专业水平科学和数学的跨学科性质的宝贵经验。 该项目还将建立一个STEM教学实践社区，其中网络活动，正式的导师安排和夏季务虚会发展学者的专业身份和自我效能作为教师。STEM教学实践活动的社区将在每年的夏季务虚会中达到高潮，学者和在职教师将面临挑战，合作设计与下一代科学标准相一致的跨学科课程。 课程设计务虚会产生的综合STEM课程将作为该计划的成果广泛提供，以加强其他高需求STEM教室的课程。

With funding from the National Science Foundation's Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program, the Carthage Noyce Scholarship program will recruit undergraduate majors in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics and prepare them to become grades 6-12 science and math teachers. This Track 1 Noyce project will fund 26 scholarship recipients over 5 years. In this project, Carthage College in Kenosha, WI will collaborate with high-need middle and high schools in southeast Wisconsin. Scholars will be recruited into the teaching licensure program with early teaching opportunities through a STEM teaching immersion in the January term and through subsequent seminar classes. Scholarship recipients will conduct authentic STEM research alongside faculty in Carthage's well-established Summer Undergraduate Research Experience. This 10-week summer program will also provide an opportunity for scholars to work alongside in-service science and math teachers, who will be invited to participate in an affiliated 4-week research experience. The project will provide mentorship opportunities for scholars before teaching licensure and during their early years of teaching through a community of STEM teaching practice. Community building activities will include regular task-oriented meetings and summer retreats involving integrated STEM curriculum creation alongside effective and experienced in-service teachers. A coalition of STEM and education faculty at Carthage College will implement a distinctive math and science teacher recruitment and preparation program in partnership with secondary schools in Wisconsin. The Carthage Noyce Scholarship program will prioritize early recruitment through immersive, well-supported teaching experiences and will tailor subsequent preparation for successful secondary-level teaching in urban settings through specific coursework as well as targeted clinical experiences in high-need schools. Exposure to authentic scientific and mathematical research will improve the depth of teacher preparation and provide valuable experience with the interdisciplinary nature of professional-level science and math to pre-service and in-service teachers . The project will also establish a community of STEM teaching practice wherein networking events, formal mentorship arrangements, and summer retreats develop scholars' professional identity and self-efficacy as teachers. Community of STEM teaching practice events will culminate each year in a summer retreat where scholars and in-service teachers are challenged to collaboratively design interdisciplinary curricula aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards. Integrated STEM lessons produced by curriculum design retreats will be made widely available as an outcome of the program to enhance curriculum in other high-need STEM classrooms.