Collaborative Research: Four Corners Noyce Scholars Program

合作研究：四个角落诺伊斯学者计划

• 批准号: 1758344
• 负责人: Jill Choate
• 金额: $ 109.77万
• 依托单位: Fort Lewis College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1758344&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Four; Corners; Noyce

The Four Corners Noyce Scholars (FCNS) program is a Track 1 Noyce project. It will be a cross-state collaboration between Fort Lewis College (FLC) in Durango, CO and San Juan College (SJC) in Farmington, NM. It will deliver highly-qualified STEM teachers to a rural service region that overlaps three states. This project will provide one-year scholarships to 29 students who have already completed a STEM degree and will pursue Post-Baccalaureate teacher licensure through FLC or SJC. An additional 15 undergraduate students will be awarded multi-year scholarship support while pursuing licensure in conjunction with a degree in Math, Biology, Chemistry, Geoscience or Physics. This project will address the lack of qualified secondary STEM teachers in the Four Corners area. FCNS will increase the number of these teachers by recruiting and training students who are predisposed to living in rural communities. Then they will place them in high-need communities via student teacher assignments and long-term employment. The first goal of FCNS will be to increase the number and diversity of certified Math and Science teachers in the Four Corners region. Secondly, the project will provide mentorship and professional development to induction year teachers. Thirdly, the project will assess the effectiveness of the program's recruitment and support strategies. FCNS will develop a recruitment funnel that will expose promising STEM undergraduate students to instructional experiences. Selected students will receive a stipend to take part in summer internships through one of ten community partners in NM, CO, or AZ. Prior to receiving scholarship support, Noyce Scholars will attend a summer bridge program. This program will build camaraderie, create networking experiences, and address cultural fluency, literacy, and numeracy. These scholars will receive the training and induction year support needed to teach effectively in impoverished, isolated, rural communities with large Native American and Hispanic populations. A partnership between FCNS and the Navajo Nation Math Circle (NNMC) program will create exciting opportunities to recruit highly-qualified Navajo students into teaching and to provide FLC and SJC students exposure to the Navajo Nation and culture.Over five years, 44 teachers will complete certification and teach in one of thirteen high-need partner school districts. Starting in their freshman year, undergraduate students at both FLC and SJC will work with middle- and high-school students through activities on their college campus. These activities will include math festivals, chemistry demonstrations, science fair judging, and guiding visits to animal labs. Sophomore-level students will take their pre-teaching experiences into the schools. They will give sample lessons, tutor, and visit schools. The school visits will include both in-school and after-school programs through NNMC. Transfer pathways will be developed between SJC (a 2-year institution) and FLC (a 4-year institution). This will allow SJC students to receive Noyce support while completing STEM degrees at FLC. Dissemination of project results will include conference presentations by co-PIs, FCNS Scholars speaking in their home communities, and educational research results being submitted to appropriate journals and conferences. The project will seek to evaluate the effectiveness of recruitment activities, collaborative arrangements, and pathway alternatives, to generate evidence-based strategies for the preparation and retention of effective STEM teachers in the Four Corners region and similar settings around the U.S.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.

四角诺伊斯学者(FCNS)计划是第一轨道诺伊斯项目。这将是科罗拉多州杜兰戈的路易斯堡学院(FLC)和新墨西哥州法明顿的圣胡安学院(SJC)之间的跨州合作。它将向三个州重叠的农村服务区提供高素质的STEM教师。该项目将为29名已经完成STEM学位并将通过FLC或SJC攻读学士学位后教师资格的学生提供一年奖学金。另外15名本科生将在攻读数学、生物、化学、地球科学或物理学位的同时获得多年奖学金支持。该项目将解决四角地区缺乏合格的中等STEM教师的问题。FCNS将通过招聘和培训倾向于生活在农村社区的学生来增加这些教师的数量。然后，他们将通过实习教师任务和长期就业将他们安置在高需求社区。FCNS的第一个目标将是增加四角地区数学和科学认证教师的数量和多样性。其次，该项目将为入职年的教师提供指导和专业发展。第三，该项目将评估该计划的招聘和支持战略的有效性。FCNS将开发一个招聘漏斗，让有前途的STEM本科生接触到教学经验。被选中的学生将获得津贴，通过在新墨西哥州、科罗拉多州或亚利桑那州的十个社区合作伙伴之一参加暑期实习。在获得奖学金支持之前，诺伊斯学者将参加一个夏季桥牌项目。该计划将建立同志情谊，创造网络体验，并解决文化流利性、识字和算术问题。这些学者将获得在贫困、与世隔绝的农村社区有效授课所需的培训和入职年支持，这些社区拥有大量的美洲原住民和西班牙裔人口。FCNS和纳瓦霍民族数学圈(NNMC)计划之间的合作将创造令人兴奋的机会，招募高素质的纳瓦霍学生进入教师队伍，并为FLC和SJC学生提供接触纳瓦霍民族和文化的机会。在五年的时间里，44名教师将完成认证，并在13个高需求合作学区之一任教。从大一开始，FLC和SJC的本科生都将通过在大学校园内的活动与初中生和高中生合作。这些活动将包括数学节、化学演示、科学公平评判和参观动物实验室的导游。二年级的学生将把他们的教学前经验带入学校。他们将提供样本课程、家教和参观学校。学校访问将包括通过NNMC的校内和课后计划。SJC(2年制)和FLC(4年制)之间将建立转学途径。这将允许SJC学生在FLC完成STEM学位的同时获得Noyce支持。项目成果的传播将包括由合作个人、FCNS学者在其家乡社区发言的会议报告，以及向适当的期刊和会议提交教育研究成果。该项目将寻求评估招聘活动、协作安排和途径替代方案的有效性，以生成基于证据的战略，以在四角地区和美国各地的类似环境中培养和留住有效的STEM教师。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。