Partnering to Prepare Outstanding Mathematics Teachers

在Robert Noyce教师奖学金计划（Noyce）的支持下，该项目旨在满足国家对高效数学教师的需求。与大多数州一样，加州正经历着合格数学教师的严重短缺，这些短缺不成比例地影响到高贫困和高少数民族学校。该项目将开发和实施一个密集的推广计划，招募44名本科数学专业的专业知识，兴趣和热情的教学。 这些学生将获得奖学金和其他支持，以帮助他们成为整个圣华金河谷高需求学校的高效数学教师。学者们将：1）参加研讨会，这将有助于他们做好准备，以满足学生的不同需求; 2）从事高影响力的研究经验，以发展他们对数学教学的知识;和3）参加精心组织的早期实地经验，在高需求的学校。通过挖掘硅谷高中和社区大学的人才，该项目将培养出反映该地区人口结构的数学教师。 该项目为期五年，旨在为高需求学校培养44名新的数学教师。该项目的活动包括一个双周研讨会系列，其中学者将会见大师级教师和教育研究人员，以了解他们未来课堂的最佳教学实践。它还将提供奖学金和高影响力的支持系统，以促进本科数学专业的成功，在一个严格的，新设计的为期四年的单科教学证书计划在加州州立大学，弗雷斯诺。这项新的创新项目将允许学生在四年内毕业，而不是遵循该州普遍的第五年学士学位后的教学证书。该项目还将提供单一主题，以内容为中心的指导，这是一种基于证据的方法，可以帮助新手教师引导学生理解真正从事数学意味着什么。该项目将支持与三个高需求学区（弗雷斯诺，克洛维斯和桑格）和教育未来项目，通过山谷14个当地社区学院的合作伙伴关系。 这些伙伴将合作开展外展活动和对新教师的新教师辅导。该项目将在整个加州州立大学系统传播研究结果，以便在其他加州州立大学校园对教师教育模式进行潜在的调整。诺伊斯计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人士成为高需求学区的有效K-STEM教师，以及经验丰富的模范K-12 STEM教师成为STEM大师。该奖项反映了NSF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 Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce), this Track 1: Scholarships & Stipends project aims to serve the national need for highly effective mathematics teachers. As are most states, California is experiencing critical shortages of qualified mathematics teachers and these shortages disproportionately affect high-poverty and high-minority schools. This project will develop and implement an intensive outreach program to recruit 44 undergraduate mathematics majors with the expertise, interest, and passion to teach. These students will receive scholarships and other supports to help them become highly effective mathematics teachers for high-need schools throughout the San Joaquin Valley. The Scholars will: 1) participate in seminars that will help prepare them to meet the diverse needs of students; 2) engage in high impact research experiences to develop their knowledge about teaching mathematics; and 3) participate in carefully structured early field experiences in high-need schools. By tapping talent throughout the Valley's high schools and community colleges, this project will produce mathematics teachers who reflect the demographics of the region. Over its five-year duration, the project aims to prepare 44 new mathematics teachers for high-need schools. The project activities include a bi-weekly seminar series in which Scholars will meet with master teachers and education researchers to learn about best teaching practices for their future classrooms. It will also provide scholarships and a high impact support system to facilitate the success of undergraduate mathematics majors in a rigorous, newly-designed four-year Single Subject Teaching Credential program at California State University, Fresno. The new, innovative program will allow students to graduate in four years rather than following the state's widespread fifth-year post-baccalaureate pathway to a teaching credential. The project will also deliver single subject, content-focused mentoring, an evidence-based approach that may help novice teachers guide student understanding of what it means to authentically engage in mathematics. The project will support a partnership with three high-need school districts (Fresno, Clovis, and Sanger) and the Education Futures Project, a collaborative of 14 local community colleges through the Valley. These partners will collaborate on outreach activities and new teacher mentoring of new teachers. The project will disseminate findings throughout the California State University system, for potential adaptation of the teacher education model at other California State University campuses. The Noyce program supports talented STEM undergraduate majors and professionals to become effective K-STEM teachers in high-need school districts and experienced, exemplary K-12 STEM teachers to become STEM master teachers. It also supports research on the persistence, retention, and effectiveness of K-12 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.