Bridging Pathways to Prepare Highly Qualified Mathematics and Science Teachers

培养高素质数学和科学教师的桥梁

• 批准号: 1950204
• 负责人: Stephen Bismarck
• 金额: $ 119.97万
• 依托单位: University of South Carolina at Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-10-01 至 2026-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1950204&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Bridging; Pathways; Prepare; Highly; Qualified

This project aims to serve the national need for high-quality mathematics and science teachers. To do so, it will support college students as they earn both STEM and secondary education degrees, and prepare them to teach in high need school districts. Specifically, the project will recruit Spartanburg Community College STEM students to become Noyce Scholars. The Noyce Scholars will receive scholarships as they pursue both a STEM major and a secondary education major. Three different internship experiences will be available for college students to work with middle and high school students. These experiences will enable the college students to focus on the teaching and learning of mathematics and science (biology/chemistry), while also working closely with university faculty and highly qualified high school teachers. Once Noyce Scholars graduate as certified teachers and are hired in a high-need school district, they will attend a monthly pedagogical seminar series throughout the school year and summer for the first two years of their teaching careers. Addressing the social-emotional needs and challenges facing high-need schools will be the keystone of the pedagogical seminar series.This project at the University of South Carolina Upstate includes partnerships with Spartanburg District Schools and Spartanburg Community College. The project goals include: 1) to increase the number of STEM majors who also pursue a secondary teaching degree from eight in 2018-2019 to twelve in 2022-2023, supporting a total of 21 different teacher candidates over five years; and 2) to raise awareness of STEM education careers among community college students by providing internship opportunities early in their degree programs. The project intends to develop curricular and extracurricular programming that support the transition of community college STEM students to a four-year institution and also to a teaching major. Intended project outcomes include preparing Noyce Scholars to become mathematics and science teachers who can meet the needs of diverse students, as well as improving the retention of pre-service teachers. The project intends to monitor and support new secondary mathematics and science teachers through seminar meetings so that every Noyce Scholar remains in high-need teaching positions six years after initial job placement. The project has the potential to inform future initiatives that aim to prepare STEM secondary education teachers who are both well qualified in STEM content area knowledge and successful in engaging middle and high school students in high-need environments. This Track 1: Scholarships and Stipends project is supported through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce). 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.

该项目旨在满足国家对高素质数学和科学教师的需求。为此，它将支持大学生获得STEM和中等教育学位，并为他们在高需求学区任教做好准备。 具体来说，该项目将招募斯帕坦堡社区学院STEM学生成为诺伊斯学者。 诺伊斯学者将获得奖学金，因为他们同时追求STEM专业和中学教育专业。三种不同的实习经验将提供给大学生与初中和高中生一起工作。这些经验将使大学生专注于数学和科学（生物/化学）的教学，同时也与大学教师和高素质的高中教师密切合作。一旦诺伊斯学者作为认证教师毕业，并在一个高需求的学区聘请，他们将参加整个学年和夏季的教学生涯的前两年每月教学研讨会系列。解决社会情感需求和面临的高需求学校的挑战将是教学研讨会系列的重点。这个项目在南卡罗来纳州大学北部包括与斯帕坦堡地区学校和斯帕坦堡社区学院的伙伴关系。项目目标包括：1）将STEM专业的学生人数从2018-2019年的8人增加到2022-2023年的12人，在五年内共支持21名不同的教师候选人; 2）通过在学位课程早期提供实习机会，提高社区大学生对STEM教育职业的认识。 该项目旨在制定课程和课外计划，支持社区大学STEM学生过渡到四年制大学和教学专业。 预期的项目成果包括准备诺伊斯学者成为数学和科学教师谁可以满足不同学生的需求，以及提高职前教师的保留。 该项目打算通过研讨会会议监测和支持新的中学数学和科学教师，使每一个诺伊斯学者在最初的工作安排后六年仍然在高度需要的教学职位。该项目有可能为未来的举措提供信息，这些举措旨在为STEM中学教育教师做好准备，这些教师既具备STEM内容领域的知识，又能成功地让初中和高中学生参与高需求环境。 这个轨道1：奖学金和津贴项目是通过罗伯特诺伊斯教师奖学金计划（诺伊斯）的支持。诺伊斯计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人士成为有效的K-12 STEM教师和经验丰富的模范K-12 STEM教师，成为高需求学区的STEM硕士教师。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。