East Tennessee STEM Teacher Scholarship Program

在美国国家科学基金会Robert Noyce教师奖学金计划（Noyce）的支持下，该项目旨在帮助解决全国高需求学区高素质STEM高中教师短缺的问题。本项目分为三个部分：1)STEM本科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）项目的奖学金和指导；3)为新入职教师提供指导计划和持续的专业发展，以留住他们。该项目的一个创新之处在于，它计划为STEM本科生提供40个暑期教学实习机会，作为招募学生进入MAT奖学金项目的途径。通过这一努力，STEM专业的本科生将在科学博物馆、暑期科学营和当地非营利性科学教育组织担任教学实习生。在实习期间，学生将受到大学教职员工、合作机构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获得对自己教学能力的信心，并激励他们继续作为诺伊斯学者参与MAT项目。该项目计划在五年内为30名STEM毕业生提供奖学金，以支持他们进入和完成MAT项目。MAT项目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。该项目将针对该地区最需要的STEM领域的物理、化学、工程技术、计算机科学和数学专业的毕业生。该项目有三个连续的目标，即在田纳西州东部高需求地区招募、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。为了捕捉实习的影响，诺伊斯团队将使用实习生写的定期日志条目和美国物理学会开发的一项调查，以调查参加此类实习是否会改变本科生对教学作为职业的态度。本研究结果将在科学教育会议上向STEM教育界发布，并提交科学教育期刊发表。一旦STEM本科学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教学策略和教学法。当这些学者转为全职教学时，该计划将提供三年的入职支持，以促进他们的成功。该项目采用的招聘、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，以支持增加高需求学校的高素质STEM教师数量的长期目标。Noyce计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人士成为有效的K-12 STEM教师，并支持经验丰富的模范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、留任性和有效性的研究。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。

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.