STEM Teaching Excellence in High-Need Schools: Teacher Preparation in the Nation's Capital

随着国家对强大的技术劳动力的需求日益迫切，中学继续面临着满足STEM学科具有丰富内容知识的持牌教师短缺的挑战。高需求的学生是一个没有充分开发的人口，以帮助应对这些挑战。这个乔治华盛顿大学（GW）轨道1：罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金和津贴（S S）项目，与劳登县社区学院（LCCC）合作，将招募，许可，并保留27个高成就的本科专业的生物，化学，数学和物理成为6-12年级STEM教师在高需求的学校。这个诺伊斯项目将确定和教育新的数学和科学教师谁没有以前选择成为教师。该项目的诺伊斯前阶段将为GW和LCCC的新生提供机会，通过课程，研讨会和专注于高需求人群的服务学习项目的相关第一手经验了解高需求社区。诺伊斯的学生将通过参与本科研究项目和与外部合作伙伴（包括史密森尼学会，国立卫生研究院和高科技公司）的实习来加深他们的内容知识。此外，诺伊斯学生将在诺伊斯计划中接受强化指导，诺伊斯毕业生将在高需求学校的第一年教学中接受指导。在华盛顿大都会地区和全国各地的数千名中学生将受益于GW Noyce计划带来的科学和数学教学的改善。在高需求的学校培养高素质的中学数学和科学教师对于支持我们国家日益增长的STEM驱动的经济至关重要。GW Noyce项目由GW严格的、基于研究的本科生STEM计划提供信息，该计划将丰富GW新教师的STEM内容知识，确保Noyce STEM教师将拥有与其他STEM专业人员相同的严格程度的内容知识。前诺伊斯阶段的队列，由一年级和二年级的学生从GW和LCCC，将被邀请在他们的大二加入学习助理计划，以发展教学技能和了解教学专业。来自诺伊斯前组的学生将申请进入诺伊斯学者计划，该计划为他们的大三和大四提供奖学金。GW Noyce项目将进一步了解Noyce计划对高需求学校高素质STEM教师的影响。项目成果的传播将通过会议演讲和STEM教育期刊上的出版物进行。

As the nation faces an increasingly critical need for a strong technology workforce, secondary schools continue to be challenged with fulfilling the shortage of licensed teachers with strong content knowledge in STEM disciplines. High-need students are an insufficiently tapped population for helping meet these challenges. This George Washington University (GW) Track 1: Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarships and Stipends (S&S) project, in partnership with Loudoun County Community College (LCCC), will recruit, license, and retain 27 high-achieving undergraduate majors in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics to become grades 6-12 STEM teachers in high-need schools. This Noyce project will identify and educate new math and science teachers who had not previously chosen to become teachers. A pre-Noyce phase of the project will provide opportunities for incoming students at GW and LCCC to learn about high-need communities through courses, seminars, and related first-hand experiences in service learning projects focused on high-need populations. Noyce students will deepen their content knowledge through participation in undergraduate research projects and internships with established external partners, including Smithsonian, National Institute of Health, and high-tech companies. Additionally, Noyce students will receive intensive mentoring while in the Noyce program, and Noyce graduates will receive mentoring in their first years of teaching in high-need schools. Thousands of secondary students in the DC metropolitan area, and across the nation, will benefit from improved science and math instruction as a result of the GW Noyce program. Producing high-caliber secondary math and science teachers in high-need schools is essential to support our nation's increasingly STEM-driven economy.The GW Noyce project is informed by GW's rigorous, research-based undergraduate STEM initiatives that will enrich the STEM content knowledge of new GW teachers, assuring that Noyce STEM teachers will have content knowledge at the same level of rigor as other STEM professionals. The pre-Noyce phase cohort, comprised of first and second year students from GW and LCCC, will be invited in their sophomore years to join a Learning Assistants program to develop teaching skills and learn about the teaching profession. Students from the pre-Noyce group will apply for admission into the Noyce Scholars program, which provides scholarships for their junior and senior years. The GW Noyce project will advance knowledge about Noyce program impacts on the production of highly qualified STEM teachers in high-need schools. Dissemination of project results will occur through conference presentations and publications in STEM education journals.