Expanding collaborations that recruit, prepare, and retain diverse and highly-qualified STEM teachers in Eastern Washington

Noyce Track 1项目旨在通过使STEM教师队伍多样化并为其提供支持来服务于国家利益。该项目寻求通过华盛顿东部新的战略合作伙伴关系，招聘获得诺伊斯奖学金的不同STEM职前教师，在高需求学校任教。这些学者将获得STEM内容领域的双学位，并获得教学认证，以确保获得高度的教学内容知识。该项目将为导师教师开发新的专业发展培训，为未来学者开发新的实地体验课程，以及为学者提供额外的文化能力培训。该项目通过入职计划为新的STEM教师提供全方位的支持。为学者提供定制的支持和培训将有助于留住更多样化的STEM教师队伍。该项目在东华盛顿大学包括与斯波坎社区学院、斯波坎瀑布社区学院、哥伦比亚盆地学院、招募华盛顿教学学院以及斯波坎、切尼和自由公立学校的合作伙伴关系。该项目的目标包括：1)增加具有特殊教学内容和教学教学知识的STEM教师人数；2)增加科学和数学学科多样化的STEM教师人数；3)培养STEM教师发展符合共同核心国家标准和下一代科学标准的工程和数学实践；4)增加有效教授不同学生并坚持在该领域工作的教师人数。该项目将在5年内资助32名新的STEM教师。将从数学、化学、生物、物理和地球科学领域招募本科生。该项目将探讨与外部机构和内部校园单位新的和加强的伙伴关系如何增加多样化的职前教师人数，以及合作机构之间的背景差异对招聘工作有何影响。该项目将开发一门新的一年级STEM教育课程，入学数据将在STEM教育计划中收集。此外，该项目还将探讨明确教授文化素养和联合课程活动在多大程度上提高文化能力，以及扩大入职支持和奖学金对学者在高需求学校坚持教学的影响。一名外部评估员将协助评估该计划在实现所述产出和影响方面的有效性。项目组将在区域和国家会议上、在期刊文章中以及通过项目网站在线传播研究成果。诺伊斯学者将通过使用本项目中强调的循证实践，并通过与其他教师分享有效的实践，对学生的学习产生长期的积极影响。此外，招收不同的学生，为他们的课堂做好准备，然后培养、支持和留住他们在职业中的地位，将对STEM的所有学生产生积极影响。这个Track 1：奖学金和津贴项目由罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划(Noyce)提供支持。Noyce计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人员成为有效的K-12 STEM教师，并支持经验丰富、模范的K-12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、保留率和有效性的研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Noyce Track 1 project aims to serve the national interest by diversifying and supporting the STEM teacher workforce. This project seeks to recruit diverse STEM preservice teachers to be awarded Noyce Scholarships to teach in high-need schools via new strategic partnerships across eastern Washington. These Scholars will receive dual degrees in a STEM content field as well as earn their teaching certification, to ensure a high degree of pedagogical content knowledge. The project will develop new professional development training for mentor teachers, a new field experience course for prospective Scholars, as well as additional cultural competency training for Scholars. This project provides wrap-around support for new STEM teachers via an induction program. Providing customized support and training to Scholars will help retain a more diverse STEM teacher workforce.This project at Eastern Washington University includes partnerships with Spokane Community College, Spokane Falls Community College, Columbia Basin College, Recruit Washington Teaching Academies, as well as Spokane, Cheney, and Liberty Public Schools. The project goals include: 1) increasing the number of STEM teachers with exceptional content and pedagogical content knowledge; 2) increasing the number of diverse STEM teachers in science and mathematics disciplines; 3) preparing STEM teachers to develop engineering and mathematical practices aligned with the Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards; and 4) increasing the number of teachers who effectively teach diverse students and persist in the field. This project will fund 32 new STEM teachers over 5 years. Undergraduate scholars will be recruited from mathematics, chemistry, biology, physics, and geosciences. This project will explore the ways in which both new and strengthened partnerships with external institutions and internal campus units increase the number of diverse preservice teachers, and what implications the contextual differences across the collaborating institutions have on recruitment efforts. This project will develop a new first year STEM education course and enrollment data will be collected in STEM education programs. Additionally, this project will explore to what extent, explicit instruction in cultural literacy and co-curricular activities improves cultural competence, and the ways in which expanding induction support and scholarships impact Scholars’ persistence in teaching at high-need schools. An external evaluator will assist in evaluating the effectiveness of the program at achieving the stated outputs and impact. The project team will disseminate findings at regional and national conferences, in journal articles, and online via a project website. Noyce Scholars will have a long-lasting positive impact on student learning through their use of the evidence-based practices emphasized in this program and by sharing effective practices with other teachers. Additionally, recruiting diverse students, preparing them for the classroom, and then developing, supporting, and retaining them in the profession will have a positive impact on all students in STEM. 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.