Robert Noyce Scholarship Program

这个Noyce津贴计划支持最近发起的努力，以解决芝加哥公立学校中合格的科学和数学教师的严重短缺，特别是在高需求的城市地区。它建立在CPS和伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校（UIC）之间的成功合作伙伴关系的基础上，为有兴趣成为一名认证教师的具有强大科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）背景的转行候选人提供基于标准的项目机会。该NoyceProject特别提供了两个这样的项目机会：1)初中科学（MGS）和初中数学（MGM）项目，以及2)中学数学教学科学硕士（MST）项目。MGS/MGM计划的教师候选人获得小学证书（K- 9）和中等成绩（5 - 8）的科学或数学认可。这是一个由教育学院提供的替代课程，有单独的科学和数学课程。MST是一个传统的中学教师预备课程（6-12岁），由数学、统计和计算机科学系提供。Noyce津贴奖的受益者是具有较强学术能力和STEM资格的职业转换候选人，并且在更广泛的社会承诺范围内，为准备解决城市青年需求的科学和数学教师的多样化劳动力做好准备（Ladson-Billings, 1995）。有三个具体目标：1)加强对MGS/MGM和MST项目STEM候选人的招聘；2)支持保留MGS/MGM候选人，因为有文件证明需要加强对前三年通过其他认证途径进入的候选人的支持（CSMPT, 2001; Huling, Resta, &; Rainwater, 2001）；3)将UIC的MST学生管道转向高需求地区的CPS教师就业。这些目标是通过向适当的学生发放奖学金来实现的。该计划包括两种类型的津贴奖励：一种是帮助招募新候选人，另一种是帮助留住最近被录取的候选人。

This Noyce Stipend Program supports recently initiated efforts to address the critical shortage of qualifiedscience and mathematics teachers in the Chicago Public Schools, particularly in urban areas of high need.It builds on a successful partnership between CPS and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) thatoffers standards-based program opportunities for career-change candidates with strong science, technology,engineering and mathematics (STEM) backgrounds interested in becoming a certified teacher. This NoyceProject specifically features two such program opportunities: 1) the Middle Grades Science (MGS) andMiddle Grades Mathematics (MGM) Program, and 2) the Master of Science in Teaching Secondary SchoolMathematics (MST) Program. Teacher candidates in the MGS/MGM Program earn an elementary schoolcertificate (K- 9) with a middle grades (5 - 8) endorsement in science or mathematics. It is an alternativeroute program, with separate science and mathematics cohorts, offered through the College of Education.The MST is a conventional secondary teacher preparation program (6-12) offered through the Departmentof Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science. The beneficiaries of a Noyce Stipend Award arecareer-change candidates with strong academic abilities and STEM qualifications and demonstratedfinancial need, within the broader social commitment to preparing a diverse workforce of science andmathematics teachers prepared to address the needs of urban youth (Ladson-Billings, 1995). There are three specific objectives: 1) to enhance the recruitment of STEM candidates to the MGS/MGM and MST programs; 2) to support the retention of MGS/MGM candidates, given the documented need for heightened support for those entering through alternative certification routes across the first three years (CSMPT, 2001; Huling, Resta, & Rainwater, 2001); and 3) to redirect the MST student pipeline at UIC to teacher employment in CPS in high-need areas. These goals are being attained by awarding stipends to the appropriate students. The program includes two types of stipend awards: one to aid the recruitment of new candidates, and the other to assist with the retention of recently admitted candidates.