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

该项目旨在通过招募具有STEM学位的专业人员，并支持他们成为6-12年级的STEM教师和高需求学校的领导者，从而满足国家培养高质量STEM教师的需求。该项目将准备两批STEM教师和领导者作为教学研究员（助教），目标是来自反映他们将任教的高需求学区多样性的群体的助教。助教将带领一个针对中学生的STEM夏令营，完成中等教育教学教育硕士学位，并在一所高需求学校进行四年的教学。为了支持教师留任，该项目将为助教实施一个为期四年的补充入职计划，其中包括大学STEM教师作为导师，并在可能的情况下战略性地将两名或更多的助教安排在同一所学校。预期的结果包括高素质的STEM教师，他们做好了充分的准备，并得到了支持，可以在高需求的学校任教并成为领导者。北德克萨斯大学的项目包括与丹顿ISD，数学和科学教育收益（GEMS）计划，非营利合作伙伴，talkSTEM，北德克萨斯学校社区（CISNT）和全国黑人工程师协会-达拉斯-沃斯堡（NSBE-DFW）的合作。该项目的目标包括：1)建立有关招聘、准备和留住工程专业学生作为STEM教师的知识。2)与该项目的合作者建立16个STEM学士后领导者和项目，领域和专业的工程，数学和科学专业之间的社区；3)加强UNT教育学院，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合作伙伴关系，以招聘，准备和留住STEM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。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 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.