Building a Plan to Improve the Mathematics and Science Teaching Workforce in North Georgia

这诺伊斯能力建设项目将汇集来自格鲁吉亚（UGA）和当地教育工作者的大学教师和工作人员制定计划，招聘，培训和支持更多合格的中学数学和科学教师在东北部格鲁吉亚。该计划是解决该地区合格STEM教师短缺问题的第一步。项目团队的总体激励目标是通过更好地准备教师与多样化和代表性不足的学生合作，增加该地区劳动力中的STEM人才。为了制定招聘，准备和支持计划，PI和Co-PI将从格鲁吉亚大学社区创建两个团队，核心团队和咨询团队。这些团队将共同努力1）评估该地区对科学和数学教师的需求; 2）确定STEM专业人员是否存在于社区中，他们可能会进入教师队伍; 3）确定格鲁吉亚科学和数学教师准备计划的大学如何准备和支持学生达到国家和州标准;加强格鲁吉亚大学教育与STEM教职员工之间的联系。收集的数据将为新计划提供信息，该计划将由核心团队编写，并由咨询团队进行批评。最终计划将基于循证决策过程，并将与其他机构共享。有了它在手，核心团队将能够有效地工作，以增加高质量的中学数学和科学教师在UGA生产的数量。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已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进行评估的支持。

This Noyce Capacity Building Project will bring together faculty and staff from the University of Georgia (UGA) and local educators to develop plans to recruit, train, and support more qualified secondary mathematics and science teachers in Northeast Georgia. The plan represents a first step in addressing the shortage of qualified STEM teachers in the region. The overall motivational goal of the project team is to increase STEM talent in the region's workforce by better preparing teachers to work with diverse and under-represented students.To develop the recruitment, preparation, and support plans, the PI and Co-PI will create two teams, the Core and Advisory Teams, from the University of Georgia community. Together these teams will work to 1) assess the need for science and mathematics teachers in the region; 2) determine if STEM professionals exist in the community who could potentially enter the teaching workforce; 3) determine how well University of Georgia science and mathematics teacher preparation programs prepare and support students to meet national and state standards; and 4) strengthen ties between University of Georgia education and STEM faculty and staff. The collected data will inform the emerging plan, which will be written by the Core Team and critiqued by the Advisory Team. The final plan will be based on a process of evidence-based decision making, which will be shared with other institutions. With it in hand, the Core Team will be able to efficiently work towards increasing the number of high-quality secondary mathematics and science teachers produced at UGA.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.