Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program for Education of Secondary STEM Teachers in Rural Virginia

詹姆斯·麦迪逊大学（JMU）的这个Track 1项目旨在通过在该奖项的五年内向32名Noyce学者提供奖学金来增加高素质的中学STEM教师的数量。该项目包括JMU、蓝岭社区学院、皮埃蒙特弗吉尼亚社区学院和哈里森堡市公立学校之间的合作，以增加从事中学教学职业的本科生数量。该项目将采用既定做法：扩大所有STEM领域的招聘工作，包括从社区大学转学；支持职前教师认同发展；建立入职支持结构，帮助JMU教师教育毕业生成为优秀的STEM教育工作者。这种入职支持旨在提高中、高中STEM教师的毅力。在资助实施过程中，研究人员将研究职前教师准备和职业早期专业发展的不同要素如何影响有效教师的发展及其在STEM教学生涯中的持久性。这个Track 1奖学金项目的目标是：(1)扩大在JMU所有STEM专业的招生工作，并从更多的潜在学生中扩大招生；(2)作为STEM职前教师支持学生发展，并确定最有前途的候选人为诺伊斯学者；(3)为“诺伊斯学者”（Noyce Scholars）建立一个入职计划，利用最佳实践来提高教师留存率，并支持新教师成为优秀STEM教育工作者的需求。本项目旨在更好地了解影响学生进入STEM教学管道并成为教师的决定的因素，并调查影响学生在职前教师发展过程中坚持STEM准备计划的决定的因素。一个多层次的支持框架，从获得执照之前开始，延伸到整个入职期，并使用循证实践来支持教师发展成为有效的教育者。在为期两年的入职计划中，STEM学生的教学身份通过密切的指导和学术团队建设活动得到加强的程度，以及他们在课堂上实施三维学习的能力也将被调查。该项目对学生作为STEM教师的长期发展的调查可能有助于确定课程设计和支持结构的复杂性模式，这些模式是吸引和留住STEM教学专业人员所必需的。从该项目中产生的高素质教师将进一步支持未来的毕业生成为各自学科的教师领导者。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Track 1 project at James Madison University (JMU) aims to increase the number of highly qualified secondary STEM teachers by providing scholarships to 32 Noyce Scholars over the five years of the award. The project includes a partnership between JMU, Blue Ridge Community College, Piedmont Virginia Community College, and Harrisonburg City Public Schools to increase the number of undergraduates who pursue secondary teaching careers. The project will use established practices to: expand recruiting efforts across all STEM fields including transfers from community colleges; support pre-service teacher identity development; and build induction support structures to help JMU teacher education graduates become outstanding STEM educators. This induction support aims to improve persistence among middle and secondary STEM teachers. During the grant implementation, researchers will study how different elements of pre-service teacher preparation and early career professional development affect the development of effective teachers and their persistence in a STEM teaching career.The goals of this Track 1 Scholarships & Stipends project are to (1) expand recruiting efforts across all JMU STEM majors and broaden efforts to recruit from a larger pool of potential students; (2) support student development as STEM pre-service teachers and identify the most promising candidates as Noyce Scholars; and (3) build an induction program for Noyce Scholars that uses best practices to improve retention and to support the needs of new teachers to become outstanding STEM educators. This project aims to better understand the factors that most influence students' decisions to enter the STEM teaching pipeline and become teachers, and to investigate the factors that impact students' decisions to persist in a STEM preparation program during their development as preservice teachers. A multi-layered support framework, beginning prior to licensure, extends through the induction period, and uses evidence-based practices to support teachers' development as effective educators. The extent to which STEM students' teaching identities are strengthened through close mentoring and academic team- building activities during the two-year induction program, and their ability to implement Three-Dimensional Learning in the classroom will also be investigated. The project's investigation of students' long-term development as STEM teachers may help to identify patterns in the complexity of curricular design and support structures that are necessary to attract and retain individuals in the STEM teaching profession. The highly-qualified teachers that should emerge from the program will further serve to support future graduates as teacher-leaders within their disciplines.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.