Growing Educators of Mathematics and Science: Cultivating Mathematics and Science Teachers Who Serve in High-need Communities

该项目旨在满足全国为高需求学区培养高质量STEM教师的需求。为了满足这些地区的需要，教师必须准备好使用最佳实践来支持学生在科学和数学方面的成功。这包括与文化相关的教学法。该项目旨在招募STEM专业的学生成为高需求学区的教师。它打算为在STEM学科攻读学士学位的初级和高级大学学生提供奖学金，并提供中学或中级教师证书。作为该项目招募STEM专业学生进入教学行业战略的一部分，该项目旨在为大一到大三的学生提供学生服务实习机会。这些服务实习旨在为大学STEM学生提供在高需求学区教室中度过时间的机会。这是为了让实习生观察6-12年级的高质量教师，与学生互动，并了解有效的教学和学习策略。该项目培养出的6-12年级的STEM教育工作者有望提高汉普顿路社区学生在数学和科学方面的学习经验和成功。老道明大学的这个项目包括与切萨皮克公立学校、诺福克公立学校、萨福克公立学校、弗吉尼亚海滩城市公立学校以及托马斯纳尔逊社区学院（更名为弗吉尼亚半岛社区学院）的合作。该项目的主要目标是招募27名成绩优异的STEM学生，并为他们提供经济支持，这些学生将完成STEM学士学位，同时获得教师资格证书，并巩固在汉普顿路地区（部门）任教的协议。除了坚实的STEM学士学位课程和认证路径外，该项目还打算利用实习、研讨会、研讨会，以及大学教师和地区教师导师来加深诺伊斯学者对文化相关教学法的理解。作为项目参与者，学生将有机会与当地学校接触，与学校合作伙伴建立关系，学习在高需求环境中教学的最佳实践，并返回周边地区和学校合作地区任教。当计划参与者转变为计划前受奖人并返回合作地区任教时，合作学校的学生将有机会与计划前受奖人互动并从中成长，这将成为持续延续计划申请者的招聘机会。本项目由Robert Noyce教师奖学金项目（Noyce）资助。Noyce项目支持有才华的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教师成为高需求学区的STEM大师教师。它还支持对高需求学区K-12 STEM教师的有效性和留任率的研究。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。

The project aims to serve the national need of preparing high quality STEM teachers to serve in high-need school districts. To meet the needs of such districts, teachers must be prepared in the use of best practices in support of student success in science and mathematics. This includes culturally relevant pedagogy. This project seeks to recruit STEM majors to become teachers in high-need school districts. It intends to provide scholarships to junior and senior level university students pursuing baccalaureate degrees in STEM disciplines, along with teacher certification at the secondary or middle grade level. As part of the project’s recruitment strategy of STEM majors to the teaching profession, this project intends to support student service internship opportunities for freshmen through junior year university students. These service internships are intended to provide university STEM students with opportunities to spend time in high-need school district classrooms. This is to allow the interns to observe high-quality teachers in grades 6-12, to engage with students, and to become aware of productive teaching and learning strategies. The quality grades 6-12 STEM educators resulting from this project are expected to enhance the student learning experiences and success of students in mathematics and science in the Hampton Roads community.This project at Old Dominion University includes partnerships with the Chesapeake Public Schools, Norfolk Public Schools, Suffolk Public Schools, and Virginia Beach City Public Schools, as well as Thomas Nelson Community College (name changing to Virginia Peninsula Community College). The primary goal of the project is to recruit and provide financial support to 27 high-achieving STEM students who complete STEM baccalaureate degrees while also obtaining teaching credentials and solidify agreements to teach in the Hampton Roads districts (divisions). In addition to a solid STEM baccalaureate degree program and certification path, the project intends to use internships, workshops, seminars, and both university faculty and district teacher mentors to grow the understanding of culturally relevant pedagogies among the Noyce Scholars. As project participants, students will be provided opportunities to engage with local schools, build relationships with school partners, learn best-practices for teaching in high-need environments, and return to teach in the surrounding and school partner districts. As project participants transition into project alumni and return to partnership districts to teach, students at partnership schools will have the opportunity to interact with and grow from the project alumni, which will serve as a recruitment opportunity for continual perpetuation of project applicants. This Track 1: Scholarships and Stipends project is supported through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Project (Noyce). The Noyce project 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 effectiveness and retention 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.