East Tennessee STEM Teacher Scholarship Program

在NSF Robert Noyce教师奖学金计划(Noyce)的支持下，这一Track 1：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。该项目包括三个部分：1)面向STEM专业本科生的暑期教学实习计划，旨在招收学生进入教师行业；2)教学文学硕士(MAT)计划的奖学金和指导；3)为新教师提供指导计划和继续专业发展，以留住他们作为教师。该项目的一个创新特点是计划为STEM本科生提供40个暑期教学实习机会，作为招收学生参加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、夏令营和当地非营利性科学教育组织担任实习生。在实习期间，学生将得到大学教职员工、合作伙伴机构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建立信心，并激励他们作为MAT计划中的诺伊斯学者继续参与该项目。该项目计划在五年内为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计划将提供教学知识和实习经验，为STEM毕业生从事教学工作做好准备。该项目将面向物理、化学、工程技术、计算机科学和数学专业的毕业生，这些领域代表着该地区最需要的STEM领域。该计划有三个连续的目标，即在田纳西州东部高需求地区招聘、准备和留住高素质的STEM高中教师。暑期实习将是招聘计划的重要组成部分。为了捕捉实习的影响，诺伊斯团队将使用实习生撰写的定期日记条目和美国物理学会开发的一项调查，调查参加此类实习是否会改变本科生对教学这一职业的态度。这项研究的结果将在科学教育会议上向STEM教育界传播，并提交科学教育期刊发表。一旦STEM本科生毕业并被招募为诺伊斯学者，MAT计划将为他们提供全面的教育背景，包括STEM教学战略和教育学。当奖学金计划过渡到全日制教学时，该计划将提供三年的入职支持，以提高他们的成功。该计划中使用的招聘、培训和保留战略将建立一个强大的网络并发展合作伙伴关系，以支持增加高需求学校安置的高素质STEM教师数量的长期目标。Noyce计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人员成为有效的K-12 STEM教师，并支持经验丰富、模范的K-12 STEM教师成为高需求学区的STEM硕士教师。它还支持对高需求学区K-12 STEM教师的持久性、保留率和有效性的研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.