Western Regional Noyce Alliance

西部地区诺伊斯联盟

• 批准号: 1745263
• 负责人: Larry Horvath
• 金额: $ 330万
• 依托单位: San Francisco State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-04-15 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1745263&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Western; Regional; Noyce; Alliance

A national shortage of STEM teachers is still a reality. According to 2016 report from the Center for Public Education, "Fixing the Holes in the Teacher Pipeline: An Overview of Teacher Shortages," STEM teaching vacancies remain the hardest to fill nationwide. Schools with a high percentage of minority or low-income students find it much more difficult to hire and retain STEM teachers (Center for Public Education, 2016). The overarching goal of the NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program is to increase the quality, diversity, and number of the nation's STEM teachers who are well prepared to engage students in high-need school districts. Another critical need is continued engagement of outstanding Noyce teachers to support them in persisting in the teaching profession. To continue to meet this goal, the Western Regional Noyce Alliance (WRNA) proposes to provide Noyce participants in twelve western states with four tiers of professional growth opportunities. These opportunities include three annual regional conferences, eighteen regional networking workshops, six mathematical and summer institutes, and research experiences for Noyce Scholars and Fellows. The states in the western region are California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Texas, Wyoming, and Montana. This project intends to support nine institutions to provide the coordinated professional development over three years. These institutions are San Francisco State University (as the lead), California Polytechnic State University, California State University-Fresno, Northern Arizona University, San Diego State University, the University of Arizona, the University of Portland, the University of Texas at Arlington, the University of Wyoming. Over the three-year project, WRNA conferences are expected to serve about 950 Noyce participants. In addition, the project intends to reach 150 Noyce teachers through summer institutes and 1,200 participants through regional networking workshops, and to engage nine additional Noyce participants in immersive summer research. The WRNA is expected to help increase the number of future STEM leaders in the region's high-need school districts who are well-prepared to effectively implement the Next Generation Science Standards and/or the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics, as more Western Region states fully adopt or include similar standards in their STEM curricula. Noyce leaders will have more opportunities to gain a better understanding of Noyce evaluation and research efforts both nationally and locally. Noyce projects that have had years of success will mentor and support newer projects. This effort may help sustain Noyce influence at each of the western region campuses over time and beyond the lifetime of the award. Supporting the continued growth of Noyce teachers as outstanding STEM professionals is expected to assist in their persistence as classroom teachers and instructional leaders. The indirect impact of WRNA is expected to be that hundreds of thousands of students in high-need school districts will receive a high-quality STEM education from teachers who are well-trained in new and exciting directions in STEM education. Moreover, the findings from the robust project evaluation conducted by the American Institute of Research (AIR), along with an individual educational researcher, has the potential to assist other STEM educators to provide effective professional growth opportunities, in support of retaining outstanding teachers in the teaching profession, particularly in those serving in high-need school districts.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

全国STEM教师短缺仍然是一个现实。 根据公共教育中心2016年的报告，“修复教师管道中的漏洞：教师短缺概述”，STEM教学空缺仍然是全国最难填补的。 少数族裔或低收入学生比例较高的学校发现雇用和留住STEM教师要困难得多（公共教育中心，2016）。 NSF Robert Noyce教师奖学金计划的总体目标是提高全国STEM教师的质量，多样性和数量，这些教师已做好充分准备，可以让学生参与高需求学区。 另一个关键的需求是继续聘请优秀的诺伊斯教师，支持他们坚持教学职业。 为了继续实现这一目标，西部地区诺伊斯联盟（WRNA）建议为西部12个州的诺伊斯参与者提供四个层次的专业成长机会。 这些机会包括三个年度区域会议，18个区域网络研讨会，六个数学和夏季研究所，以及诺伊斯学者和研究员的研究经验。 西部地区的州是加州、华盛顿、俄勒冈州、内华达州、爱达荷州、亚利桑那州、新墨西哥州、科罗拉多、犹他州、得克萨斯州、怀俄明州和蒙大拿州。 该项目旨在支持九个机构在三年内提供协调的专业发展。 这些机构是旧金山弗朗西斯科州立大学（牵头）、加州理工州立大学、加州州立大学弗雷斯诺分校、北方亚利桑那大学、圣地亚哥州立大学、亚利桑那大学、波特兰大学、得克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校、怀俄明州大学。 在为期三年的项目中，WRNA会议预计将为约950名诺伊斯与会者提供服务。 此外，该项目还打算通过暑期学院接触150名诺伊斯教师，通过区域网络研讨会接触1,200名参与者，并让另外9名诺伊斯参与者参与沉浸式暑期研究。 WRNA预计将有助于增加该地区高需求学区未来STEM领导者的数量，他们已做好充分准备，有效实施下一代科学标准和/或数学共同核心国家标准，因为更多的西部地区国家在其STEM课程中完全采用或包括类似标准。 诺伊斯领导人将有更多的机会获得更好地了解诺伊斯的评估和研究工作在国家和地方。 Noyce多年来取得成功的项目将指导和支持新的项目。 这一努力可能有助于维持诺伊斯的影响力在每个西部地区的校园随着时间的推移和超越生命的奖项。 支持诺伊斯教师作为优秀的STEM专业人士的持续成长，预计将有助于他们作为课堂教师和教学领导者的坚持。 WRNA的间接影响预计是，高需求学区的数十万学生将从在STEM教育新的和令人兴奋的方向上训练有素的教师那里获得高质量的STEM教育。 此外，美国研究所（AIR）与个别教育研究人员沿着进行的强有力的项目评估的结果，有可能帮助其他STEM教育工作者提供有效的专业成长机会，以支持留住教师职业中的优秀教师，尤其是那些在高...该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。