East Tennessee STEM Teacher Scholarship Program

东田纳西州 STEM 教师奖学金计划

• 批准号: 1851631
• 负责人: Beverly Smith
• 金额: $ 119.9万
• 依托单位: East Tennessee State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-05-01 至 2026-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1851631&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: East; Tennessee; STEM; Teacher; Scholarship

With support from the NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce), this Track 1: Scholarships and Stipends project aims to help address the national shortage of highly qualified STEM high school teachers in high-need school districts. This project has three parts: 1) a summer teaching internship program for undergraduate STEM majors, which is designed to recruit students into the teaching profession; 2) scholarships and mentoring for a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program; and 3) a mentoring program and continuing professional development for newly-minted teachers to retain them as teachers. An innovative feature of the project is its plan to support 40 summer teaching internships for STEM undergraduates, as a pathway to recruit students into the MAT scholarship program. Through this effort, undergraduate STEM majors will serve as teaching interns at science museums, summer science camps, and local non-profit science educational organizations. While interning, the students will be actively mentored by University faculty, staff at the partner facilities, and local high school teachers. These internships are intended to help students gain confidence in their ability to teach and inspire them to continue participation in the project as Noyce Scholars in the MAT program. Over five years, this project plans to provide scholarships to 30 STEM graduates to support their entry into and completion of the MAT program. The MAT program will provide pedagogical knowledge and residency experiences to prepare STEM graduates for a career in teaching. The project will target graduates in Physics, Chemistry, Engineering Technology, Computer Science, and Mathematics, which represent the highest need STEM fields in the region. This program has three sequential goals to recruit, prepare, and retain highly qualified STEM high school teachers in high-need districts in eastern Tennessee. The summer internship will be an essential component of the recruitment program. To capture the impact of the internship, the Noyce team will use regular journal entries written by the interns and a survey developed by the American Physical Society to investigate whether participation in such internships changes undergraduate attitudes toward teaching as a profession. The results of this study will be disseminated to the STEM education community at science education conferences and submitted for publication in science education journals. Once the STEM undergraduate students graduate and are recruited as Noyce Scholars, the MAT program will provide them with a comprehensive background in education, including STEM teaching strategies and pedagogy. When the Scholars transition to full-time teaching, the project will provide three years of induction support to enhance their success. The recruitment, training, and retention strategies used in this program will build a strong network and develop partnerships that will support a long-term goal of increasing the number of highly-qualified STEM teachers who are placed into high-need schools. The Noyce program supports talented STEM undergraduate majors and professionals to become effective K-12 STEM teachers and experienced, exemplary K-12 STEM teachers to become STEM master teachers in high-need school districts. It also supports research on the persistence, retention, and effectiveness of K-12 STEM teachers in high-need school districts.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.

在 NSF 罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划 (Noyce) 的支持下，第一轨道：奖学金和津贴项目旨在帮助解决全国高需求学区高素质 STEM 高中教师的短缺问题。 该项目分为三个部分：1）本科STEM专业暑期教学实习项目，旨在招收学生进入教学行业； 2) 教学硕士（MAT）课程的奖学金和指导； 3) 为新教师提供指导计划和持续专业发展，以留住他们。 该项目的一个创新特点是计划支持 40 个 STEM 本科生暑期教学实习，作为招募学生加入 MAT 奖学金计划的途径。 通过这一努力，STEM 专业的本科生将在科学博物馆、科学夏令营和当地非营利科学教育组织担任教学实习生。 实习期间，学生将得到大学教师、合作伙伴设施的工作人员和当地高中教师的积极指导。 这些实习旨在帮助学生对自己的教学能力充满信心，并激励他们继续以诺伊斯学者的身份参与 MAT 项目。 该项目计划在五年内向 30 名 STEM 毕业生提供奖学金，以支持他们进入并完成 MAT 课程。 MAT 项目将提供教学知识和实习经验，为 STEM 毕业生从事教学职业做好准备。 该项目将针对物理、化学、工程技术、计算机科学和数学领域的毕业生，这些领域代表了该地区最需要的 STEM 领域。 该计划具有三个连续的目标，即在田纳西州东部的高需求地区招募、培养和留住高素质的 STEM 高中教师。 暑期实习将是招聘计划的重要组成部分。 为了了解实习的影响，诺伊斯团队将使用实习生定期撰写的日记条目和美国物理学会开展的一项调查来调查参与此类实习是否会改变本科生对教学职业的态度。 这项研究的结果将在科学教育会议上向 STEM 教育界传播，并提交在科学教育期刊上发表。 一旦 STEM 本科生毕业并被招募为诺伊斯学者，MAT 项目将为他们提供全面的教育背景，包括 STEM 教学策略和教学法。 当学者们过渡到全日制教学时，该项目将提供三年的入职支持，以促进他们的成功。该计划中使用的招聘、培训和保留策略将建立一个强大的网络并发展合作伙伴关系，以支持增加被​​安置在高需求学校的高素质 STEM 教师数量的长期目标。 诺伊斯计划支持有才华的 STEM 本科专业和专业人士成为高效的 K-12 STEM 教师，并支持经验丰富、堪称典范的 K-12 STEM 教师成为高需求学区的 STEM 大师级教师。它还支持对高需求学区 K-12 STEM 教师的持久性、保留性和有效性的研究。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。