Recruitment, Readiness, and Retention of Engineering, Mathematics, and Science Teachers

该项目旨在通过招聘具有STEM学位的专业人员，并支持他们成为6-12年级STEM教师和高需求学校的领导者，来满足国家培养高质量STEM教师的需求。该项目将培养两批STEM教师和领导者作为教学研究员（TF），并将针对来自反映他们将任教的高需求学区多样性的群体的TF。TF将带领中学生参加STEM夏令营，完成中学教育教学硕士学位，并在高需求学校任教四年。为了支持教师职业的保留，该项目将为TF实施一项为期四年的补充入门计划，其中包括大学STEM教师作为导师，并在可能的情况下在同一所学校战略性地安排两名或更多TF。预期成果包括高素质的STEM教师，他们做好了充分的准备，并得到支持，能够在高需求的学校教书并成为领导者。北德克萨斯大学的项目包括与丹顿ISD，数学和科学教育（GEMS）计划的收益，以及非营利合作伙伴，talkSTEM，北德克萨斯州学校社区（CISNT）和达拉斯-沃思堡黑人工程师全国协会（NSBE-DFW）的合作。该项目的目标包括：1）建立有关招聘，准备和保留工程专业作为STEM教师的知识。2)建设16干学士后的领导者和社区之间的工程，数学和科学专业的项目，该领域，并与该项目的合作者的专业，和3）加强教育的UNT学院，工程学院，科学学院，地区/学校合作伙伴和非营利合作伙伴之间的伙伴关系，招聘，准备和保留干教师。该项目有可能成为寻求解决STEM教师短缺问题的大学的典范，为支持STEM TF提供可复制的蓝图，从而建立可持续的教师管道。这个轨道2：教学奖学金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 by recruiting professionals with degrees in STEM and supporting them to become grades 6-12 STEM teachers and leaders in high-need schools. This project will prepare two cohorts of STEM teachers and leaders as teaching fellows (TFs) and will target TFs from groups that reflect the diversity of the high-need school districts in which they will teach. TFs will lead a STEM Summer Camp for secondary students, complete a Master of Education in Teaching in Secondary Education, and four years of teaching in a high-need school. To support retention in the teaching profession, the project will implement a four-year supplementary induction program for TFs that includes university STEM faculty as mentors and strategically placing two or more TFs at the same school when possible. The expected outcomes include highly qualified STEM teachers who are well prepared and supported to teach and be leaders in high-need schools. The project at the University of North Texas includes partnerships with Denton ISD, Gains in the Education of Mathematics and Science (GEMS) program, and non-profit partners, talkSTEM, Communities in Schools North Texas (CISNT), and the National Society of Black Engineers – Dallas-Fort Worth (NSBE-DFW). The project goals include: 1) Building knowledge about recruiting, readiness, and retaining engineering majors as STEM teachers. 2) Building 16 STEM post-baccalaureate leaders and community between engineering, mathematics, and science majors in the project, the field, and the profession with this project's collaborators, and 3) Strengthening partnerships between UNT College of Education, the College of Engineering, the College of Science, district/school partner, and non-profit partners to recruit, prepare, and retain STEM teachers. The project has the potential to serve as a model for universities seeking to address STEM teacher shortages, offering a replicable blueprint for supporting STEM TFs thereby establishing a sustainable teacher pipeline. This Track 2: 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.