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

詹姆斯·麦迪逊大学(JMU)的这一Track 1项目旨在通过在颁奖五年内向32名诺伊斯学者提供奖学金，增加高素质中等STEM教师的数量。该项目包括JMU、蓝岭社区学院、皮德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，以增加追求中学教师职业生涯的本科生数量。该项目将利用既定的做法：扩大所有STEM领域的招聘工作，包括从社区大学调任；支持职前教师身份发展；并建立入职支持结构，帮助JMU师范教育毕业生成为杰出的STEM教育者。这一入职支持旨在提高中等和中等STEM教师的坚持性。在拨款实施期间，研究人员将研究职前教师准备和早期职业发展的不同因素如何影响有效教师的发展和他们在STEM教学生涯中的坚持性。这一Track 1奖学金和津贴项目的目标是(1)扩大所有JMU STEM专业的招聘努力，扩大从更多潜在学生中招聘的努力；(2)支持学生作为STEM职前教师的发展，并确定最有前途的候选人为诺伊斯学者；(3)为诺伊斯学者建立一个入职计划，利用最佳实践来提高留存率，并支持新教师成为杰出的STEM教育工作者。本项目旨在更好地了解影响学生进入STEM教学渠道并成为教师的决定的最大因素，并调查影响学生在作为职前教师的发展过程中坚持STEM准备计划的因素。一个多层次的支持框架，从颁发执照之前开始，一直延伸到入职阶段，并使用循证做法来支持教师作为有效的教育工作者的发展。在为期两年的入门课程中，STEM学生的教学身份在多大程度上通过密切的指导和学术团队建设活动得到加强，以及他们在课堂上实施三维学习的能力也将得到调查。该项目对学生作为STEM教师的长期发展进行的调查，可能有助于确定复杂的课程设计和支持结构中的模式，这些模式是吸引和留住STEM教师专业人员所必需的。从该计划中脱颖而出的高素质教师将进一步支持未来的毕业生在其学科范围内担任教师领导。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 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.