Preparing a Community of Outstanding STEM Teachers for Rural and Urban Northeast Texas

这个轨道1罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划将招募和准备三十二名学生在五年内成为中学物理，化学，生物和数学教师在高需求的学区在得克萨斯州东北部。该地区的县缺乏中学STEM教育工作者。使这一问题更加复杂的是高流动率，这至少部分是由该地区STEM教师经常经历的孤立造成的。该项目将通过三项主要努力解决这些问题。(i)潜在的诺伊斯学者将被招募的活动，目前教学作为一个有吸引力的，第一选择的职业选择，并通过提供学生的教学经验，在他们的学术生涯早期。(ii)诺伊斯学者将通过教学轨道，结合联合收割机他们的主要课程与教师认证课程和一个专门的类，在每个主要涵盖学科特定的教育学，教育研究和文化响应教学准备。(iii)诺伊斯教师将得到支持，因为他们在当地的高需求学校工作的个别导师教师和诺伊斯教师，诺伊斯学者，学习助理，在职教师和参与教师的相互支持的社区。社区将定期举行会议，并将促进农村和城市districs. Based之间的合作和沟通，在得克萨斯州A M大学商业（TAMUC），该项目将是TAMUC，商业，卡多米尔斯和罗伊斯市，和区域1教育服务中心，服务于达拉斯-沃斯堡大都市和农村县东部的地方农村学区之间的合作。在该项目的过程中，32名STEM教师在四个八人组将准备，以满足农村和城市的高需求学校在得克萨斯州东北部的需求。为此，项目小组将采取一个分三步走的进程。首先，它将通过广泛的广告活动提高对该计划及其好处的认识。第二，它将招收24名大一和大二学生/年进入一个扩展的学习助理（LA）计划，介绍物理，化学，生物和数学课程。第三，该团队将从洛杉矶游泳池和社区大学转学生中招募诺伊斯学者。诺伊斯学者将有两名导师，一名在职教师和一名项目团队成员。LA和诺伊斯计划对新教师的教学实践的影响，以及LA计划和诺伊斯计划对特定学科身份，教师身份和职业兴趣的影响都将被衡量。该项目的实施细节、通过实践社区活动创建的材料以及研究成果将在同行评审的STEM教育期刊、地方和国家会议以及项目网站上进行报道。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响评审标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Track 1 Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program will recruit and prepare thirty-two students over five years to become secondary physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics teachers in high-needs school districts in Northeast Texas. Counties in this region suffer from a shortage of secondary STEM educators. Compounding this problem are high turnover rates that are at least partially caused by the isolation that STEM teachers in this region often experience. This project will address these problems through three primary efforts. (i) Potential Noyce Scholars will be recruited with activities that present teaching as an attractive, first-choice career option and by providing students teaching experiences early in their academic careers. (ii) Noyce Scholars will be prepared through teaching tracks that combine their major courses with teacher certification courses and a dedicated class in each major which covers discipline-specific pedagogy, education research, and culturally-responsive teaching. (iii) Noyce Teachers will be supported as they work in local high-needs schools by individual mentor teachers and a mutually supportive community of Noyce Teachers, Noyce Scholars, learning assistants, in-service teachers, and participating faculty. The community will meet regularly and will foster collaboration and communication between rural and urban districts.Based at Texas A&M University-Commerce (TAMUC), this project will be a collaboration between TAMUC, the local rural school districts of Commerce, Caddo Mills, and Royse City, and Region 1 Educational Service Center which serves the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and the rural counties to the east. Over the course of the project, thirty-two STEM teachers in four cohorts of eight will be prepared to meet the needs of both rural and urban high-needs schools in Northeast Texas. Towards this end the project team will follow a three-step process. First, it will raise awareness of the program and its benefits through a broad advertising campaign. Second, it will recruit twenty-four freshmen and sophomore students/year into an expanded learning assistant (LA) program in introductory physics, chemistry, biology, and math classes. Third, the team will recruit Noyce Scholars from the LA pool and community college transfer students. Noyce Scholars will have two mentors, an in-service teacher and a member of the project team. The impact of the LA and Noyce programs on the teaching practices of new teachers and the impact of the LA program and the Noyce program on discipline-specific identity, teacher identity, and career interests will all be measured. Details about the implementation of the project, materials created through the activities of the community of practice, and research results will be reported in peer-review STEM education journals, at local and national conferences, and on the project website.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.