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

该项目旨在通过招聘拥有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，来服务于培养高素质STEM教师的国家需求。该项目将培养两批STEM教师和领导人作为助教(TF)，并将针对来自反映他们将在其中授课的高需求学区的多样性的团体的助教。TFS将领导一个面向中学生的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任教四年。为了支持留住教师专业，该项目将实施一项为期四年的教师补充入职计划，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两名以上的教师安排在同一所学校。预期结果包括高素质的STEM教师，他们做好了充分的准备和支持，能够在高需求学校任教并成为领导者。北德克萨斯大学的项目包括与Denton ISD的合作伙伴关系，数学与科学教育(GEMS)计划的收益，以及非营利性合作伙伴TalkSTEM，德克萨斯州北部学校社区(CISNT)和达拉斯-沃斯堡全国黑人工程师协会(NSBE-DFW)。该项目的目标包括：1)建立招聘、准备和留住工程专业学生作为STEM教师的知识。2)与该项目的合作者在工程、数学和科学专业的工程、数学和科学专业学生之间建立16个STEM毕业后领导者和社区，以及3)加强北卡罗来纳大学教育学院、工程学院、科学学院、地区/学校合作伙伴和非营利性合作伙伴之间的伙伴关系，以招聘、准备和保留STEM教师。该项目有可能成为寻求解决STEM师资短缺问题的大学的典范，为支持STEM教师队伍提供一个可复制的蓝图，从而建立一个可持续的师资队伍。第二轨道：教学奖学金项目由罗伯特·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教师的有效性和留住的研究。这一奖项反映了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。

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.