Chattanooga STEM Education Noyce Scholarship Program

根据教师短缺地区全国列表，持续短缺的中学数学和科学教师存在于整个美国。为了解决这一短缺，第1条：查塔努加STEM教育奖学金计划（CSENSP）旨在增加田纳西大学查塔努加分校（UTC）进入教学行业的本科STEM专业学生的数量和多样性。该项目将包括在汉密尔顿县公立学校进行密集的住院实习教学经验。CSENSP的目标包括：吸引高素质的STEM专业学生到高需求学区从事中学STEM教学工作；鼓励传统上代表性不足的STEM学科群体主修STEM领域，并寻求二级STEM教师执照；增加中等STEM教育工作者的数量；并在学生开始教学的前三年为他们提供支持，特别强调高需求学区的独特挑战。诺伊斯学者将获得定制的专业发展，以提高他们的教学和文化能力技能。此外，诺伊斯学者将参加半年一次的研讨会，并接受每月的教学指导。该项目包括联合技术大学的三所学院、汉密尔顿县高需求学区和查塔努加州立社区学院（CSCC）之间的合作。通过这些合作伙伴关系，CSENSP将为生物学、化学、地质学、物理学、应用数学或计算机科学专业的大三和大四学生提供30个为期两年的奖学金。奖学金获得者(？Noyce学者？)将承诺在一个高需求的学区任教四年。此外，与CSCC的合作将使44名转学生在CSCC加入STEM教师候选人管道。这些转学生之后将有资格成为诺伊斯学者。该项目的形成性和总结性评估结果将使STEM教师培训社区了解高需求学校和地区STEM教师培训的最佳实践。学生的教学评估工具将通过定性和定量评估提供知识、技能和态度的综合数据。项目成果将包括提供使用数据驱动招聘的最佳实践，以有效地招聘、建议、支持、留住和激励学生成功完成STEM课程，并拥有一个有影响力的STEM教学生涯。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。

According to the Teacher Shortage Areas Nationwide Listing, persistent shortages of secondary mathematics and science teachers exist throughout the United States. To address this shortage, the Track 1: Chattanooga STEM Education Noyce Scholarship Program (CSENSP) aims to increase the number and diversity of undergraduate STEM majors at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) who enter the teaching profession. The project will include an intensive, residency field-based teaching experience in Hamilton County public schools. The goals of CSENSP include: attracting highly qualified STEM majors to secondary STEM teaching careers in high-need school districts; encouraging traditionally underrepresented groups in the STEM disciplines to major in STEM fields and seek secondary STEM teacher licensure; increasing the number of secondary STEM educators; and supporting scholars during their first three years of teaching, with special emphasis on the unique challenges of high-need school districts. Noyce scholars will receive customized professional development to enhance their pedagogical and cultural competence skills. Additionally, Noyce scholars will attend semiannual seminars and receive monthly instructional coaching. This project includes partnerships between three colleges at UTC, the high-need school district of Hamilton County, and Chattanooga State Community College (CSCC). Through these partnerships, CSENSP will provide 30 two-year scholarships to juniors and seniors majoring in biology, chemistry, geology, physics, applied mathematics, or computer science. Scholarship recipients (?Noyce scholars?) will commit to teach for four years in a high-need school district. Additionally, the partnership with CSCC will enable 44 transfer students to join the STEM teacher candidate pipeline while at CSCC. These transfer students will later be eligible to become Noyce scholars. The results of formative and summative assessment of the project will inform the STEM teacher preparation community about best practices for STEM teacher preparation for high-need schools and districts. The students' pedagogical assessment instrument will provide composite data of knowledge, skills, and attitudes, via qualitative and quantitative assessments. Project outcomes will include providing best practices for use of data-driven recruitment to effectively recruit, advise, support, retain, and motivate students to successfully complete a STEM curriculum and have an impactful STEM teaching career.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.