Leveraging Technology Resources to Encourage University STEM Students to Explore and Persist in Teaching Careers

该项目旨在满足国家培养高素质、高效率的科学、技术、工程和数学教师的需求，这些教师将为美国培养下一代领导人。这些领域及其相关职业的重要性大大提高；K-12学生越来越擅长使用最新技术，因此对学校实施新的技术先进的学习工具提出了挑战。学院和大学需要培养能够利用技术吸引学生并增强学习能力的中学教师。另一项同样重要的挑战是确保K-12教师的福祉，使他们不会因大流行带来的压力、最近教师短缺以及提高学生标准化考试成绩的要求而感到倦怠。该项目将为未来和早期职业教师提供他们成功所需的工具，包括创新技术、科学实践经验、指导团队资源以及健康监测和支持。为期一到两年的培训将为国家培养下一代科学和数学领袖。阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校的这个项目包括与12个地区高需求学区和劳森州立社区学院（一个少数族裔服务机构）的合作。项目目标包括培养46名本科生和研究生，为他们提供技能和支持机制，使他们在职前教学和整个职业生涯中有效、热情和自信。该项目旨在确保初高中学生能够通过这些新老师接触到科学的兴奋和奇迹。为了实现这些目标并促进教育公平，该项目将重点关注“高需求”学校的教师。这些教师通常带着极大的热情、技能、理解和动力进入教学领域，但如果缺乏足够的支持和指导，这些热情、技能和动力就会消退，因此他们的教师留任率和教学生涯的持久性都很低。该项目致力于通过优秀的教学方法、团队教学和领导能力，以及各种双向指导和健康资源的培训来提升教师的卓越水平，使新教师在职业生涯中茁壮成长，并培养他们教育下一代的热情。本项目由Robert Noyce教师奖学金项目（Noyce）资助。Noyce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，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 to prepare high-quality and highly effective science, technology, engineering and mathematics teachers who will develop the next generation of leaders for the USA. The importance of these areas and their associated careers has greatly accelerated; and K-12 students are becoming more adept at using the latest technologies, thus challenging schools to implement new technologically advanced learning tools. Colleges and universities need to develop secondary teachers who can use technology to engage their students and empower learning. An equally important challenge is to ensure the well-being of the K-12 teachers, so that they do not experience burnout due to stresses brought about by the pandemic, recent shortages of teachers, and demands for raising student’s’ standardized test performance. This project will provide prospective and early-career practicing teachers with the tools that they need to succeed, including innovative technology, hands-on experiences in science, as well as resources of mentoring teams and wellness monitoring and support. The one-to-two-years of training will develop the next generation of science and math leaders for the nation.This project at the University of Alabama at Birmingham includes partnerships with 12 area high needs school districts and Lawson State Community College (a minority serving institution). Project goals include the nurturing of 46 undergraduate and graduate students, providing them with skills and support mechanisms to be effective, enthusiastic, and confident in their preservice teaching and throughout their careers. The project is aimed at ensuring that middle and high school students are given access to the excitement and wonder of science through these new teachers. To accomplish these goals and promote equity in education, the project will focus on teachers in “high needs” schools. These teachers, who typically enter teaching with great passion, skill, understanding and motivation that can fade if they lack adequate support and mentoring, can suffer from low teacher retention and lower persistence in teaching careers. The program focuses on promoting teacher excellence through outstanding pedagogy, team teaching, and leadership, and training in diverse bidirectional mentorship and wellness resources, enabling the new teachers to thrive in their careers and foster their passion for educating the next generation. 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 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.