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

诺伊斯能力建设项目将把佐治亚大学(UGA)的教职员工和当地教育工作者聚集在一起，制定计划，在佐治亚州东北部招聘、培训和支持更多合格的中学数学和科学教师。该计划是解决该区域合格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不同和代表性不足的学生合作，增加该地区劳动力队伍中的STEM人才。为了制定招聘、准备和支持计划，PI和Co-PI将从佐治亚大学社区创建两个团队，即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)确定社区中是否存在可能进入教师大军的STEM专业人员；3)确定佐治亚大学科学和数学教师培养计划为学生准备和支持学生达到国家和州标准的情况；以及4)加强佐治亚大学教育与STEM教职员工之间的联系。收集到的数据将为新制定的计划提供信息，该计划将由核心小组撰写，并由咨询小组提出批评。最终计划将基于循证决策过程，并将与其他机构分享。有了它，核心团队将能够有效地工作，以增加在UGA生产的高质量中学数学和科学教师的数量。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.