Limestone University Noyce Master Teaching Fellowship Program

该项目旨在通过提供一个沉浸式的6年变革计划，包括领导力、科学、技术、工程、艺术和数学（STEAM），以及基于项目的学习（PBL）课程和与合作组织的专业学习经验，满足南卡罗来纳州stem相关教学领域K-12教师领导者的全国需求。该计划采用小规模的群组模式，让教学大师奖助金（mtf），即教师领袖，得到更有针对性的关注，并根据奖助金所需的时间分配，为地区提供灵活性和支持。该项目将产生20名STEM教师领袖。该项目计划招募经验丰富的模范K-12 STEM教师，这些教师必须完成至少本科学位，并在当地合作教育机构（LEAs）获得相应领域的许可和教学。这个项目在石灰岩大学（LU），一个少数民族服务机构（MSI），包括与两个非营利组织合作：教育多样性分支联盟（BranchED）和南卡罗来纳教育招聘，保留和发展中心（CERRA）。该项目将通过保留和支持高效的一级STEM教师领导，影响南卡罗来纳州两个高需求学区（切罗基第一学区和斯帕坦堡第三学区）的学生。该项目旨在提高对有效实践的认识，这些实践有可能影响高需求K-12学校STEM教师领导者的发展、支持和保留。培养STEM教师领导者的计划有五个目标：(1)培养领导能力(2)设计和评估公平的、基于数据的课程和教学(3)指导和领导初级教育工作者(4)倡导技能发展(5)提高对K-12学生学习的影响。该项目将根据其在南卡罗莱纳高需求LEAs中招募、准备和保留mtf方面的成功情况进行监测和评估。还将收集纵向数据，以提供有关有助于有效发展STEM教师的长期项目特征的信息。这个Track 3：硕士教学奖学金项目是由Robert Noyce教师奖学金计划（Noyce）支持的。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 of K-12 teacher leaders in STEM-related teaching fields in South Carolina by providing an immersive 6-year transformative program that includes leadership, science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM), and Project-Based Learning (PBL) coursework and professional learning experiences with partnership organizations. The project utilizes a small size cohort model to allow for more targeted attention of the Master Teaching Fellows (MTFs), i.e., teacher leaders, and to offer districts flexibility and support given the time allocations required for the fellowship. The program will produce twenty (20) STEM Teacher Leaders. The program plans to recruit experienced and exemplary K-12 STEM teachers under the Noyce definition who have completed a minimum of an undergraduate degree and are licensed and teaching in their field at partner local educational agencies (LEAs).This project at Limestone University (LU), a Minority Serving Institution (MSI), includes partnerships with two non-profit organizations: Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity (BranchED) and South Carolina’s Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention & Advancement (CERRA). The project will impact students in two high-need school districts in South Carolina (Cherokee School District 1 and Spartanburg Schools District 3) by retaining and supporting highly effective Title 1 STEM teacher leaders. The project aims to advance knowledge on effective practices that have the potential to impact the development, support, and retention of STEM teacher leaders in high-need K-12 schools. The plan for developing STEM teacher leaders is organized under five goals: (1) Build Capacity to Lead (2) Design and Evaluate Equitable, Data-informed Curriculum and Instruction (3) Mentor and Lead Beginning Educators (4) Advocacy Skill Development (5) Improve Impact on K-12 Student Learning. The project will be monitored and evaluated with respect to its success in recruiting, preparing, and retaining MTFs in high need LEAs in South Carolina. Longitudinal data will also be collected to provide information concerning the long-term program features that contribute to effective STEM teacher development. This Track 3: Master Teaching Fellowships 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.