Focusing on Professional Engagement to Increase the Number of Highly Effective Science and Mathematics Teachers

该项目旨在通过增加美国高素质和有效的STEM教师数量来服务于国家利益，特别是在犹他州中部的高增长，高需求地区。为此，它将招募高成就的大三或大四学生攻读数学，生物学，化学，物理学或地球科学的学士学位。 这些学生将获得奖学金，并通过指导，内容丰富，专业发展和应用课堂经验获得支持，成为STEM教师。该项目将支持这些未来的教师发展深入的STEM内容知识，以及批判性思维，探究性学习技巧和课堂管理技能。 在这些准备充分的新教师的教室里，学生们有望对STEM概念有更深入的了解，为在大学取得成功做好更好的准备，更有可能追求STEM职业。 通过这种方式，该项目预计将有助于满足21世纪世纪的劳动力需求。此外，通过强调专业参与，通过这个项目准备的教师可能会增加潜力，成为领导者在他们的学校和地区，并在国家和国家教育。在这个项目中，犹他州谷大学将与雪学院，一个两年制学院，以及高山，普罗沃，尼波，南桑皮特高需求学区的合作伙伴。一个基本的项目目标是通过以下方式增加犹他州高需求地方教育机构的中学STEM教师数量：（1）向50名科学和数学专业的学生颁发奖学金，并为他们提供强有力的职前教师培训和在职教师支持计划，重点是专业参与; 2）加强从斯诺学院招聘未来教师;（3）进行纵向评估和研究，探讨招聘、培训和留住高素质教师队伍的有效方法。项目评估将包括一项纵向混合方法研究，以调查项目活动对教师留用和最终领导的影响。项目小组计划传播项目成果，包括关于教师身份和社区在学校、地区和学院网络中的价值的信息，以提高教师的发展和保留。 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。

This project aims to serve the national interest by increasing the number of highly qualified and effective STEM teachers in the United States, particularly in a high-growth, high-need region of central Utah. To do so, it will recruit high-achieving juniors or seniors pursuing baccalaureate STEM degrees in Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, or Earth Science. These students will receive scholarships and be supported to become STEM teachers through mentoring, content enrichment, professional development, and applied classroom experience. The project will support these future teachers to develop deep STEM content knowledge, as well as skills in critical thinking, inquiry learning techniques, and classroom management. Students in the classrooms of these well-prepared new teachers are expected to have a greater understanding of STEM concepts, be better prepared for success in college, and more likely to pursue STEM careers. In this way, the project expects to help meet 21st century workforce needs. Moreover, through the emphasis on professional engagement, the teachers prepared through this project may have increased potential to become leaders in their schools and districts, and in state and national education.In this project, Utah Valley University will partner with Snow College, a two-year college, as well as the high-needs school districts of Alpine, Provo, Nebo, and South Sanpete. An underlying project goal is to increase the number of secondary STEM teachers in high-need local educational agencies in Utah by: (1) awarding scholarships to 50 science and mathematics majors and providing them with a strong pre-service teacher training and in-service teacher support program focused on professional engagement; 2) strengthening recruitment of future teachers from Snow College; and (3) conducting longitudinal assessment and research about effective ways to recruit, train, and retain a high-quality teacher workforce. Project evaluation will include a longitudinal mixed methods study to investigate the impact of project activities on teacher retention and eventual leadership. The project team plans to disseminate project results, including information about the value of teacher identity and community across a network of schools, districts, and colleges for increasing teacher development and retention. 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 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.