Purdue Robert Noyce Scholars: Excellence in Preparation of Rural High School STEM Teachers

该项目涉及普渡大学科学、教育、工程和技术学院，与克劳福德斯维尔、洛根斯波特和本顿县的学校合作，这些学校都是小城镇和农村地区。这个诺伊斯项目帮助了多达35名科学、技术、工程或数学(STEM)专业的学生成为高中科学和数学教师。支持是通过奖学金(一些提供一年的资助，另一些提供两年的资助，反映第一次颁发奖学金时学生学位的剩余年限)和为他们设计的计划，与普渡大学其他现有的和新兴的STEM教师队伍发展计划合作提供的。普渡科学和数学教育研究与参与中心(CRESME)是科学学院和教育学院的联合努力，在普渡校区的其他教育研究单位的帮助下，包括技术和工程学院，以及发现学习中心，正在带头开展这项工作。该计划正在改善普渡大学周围小型农村学区的STEM教育，并提供可能推广到全国类似农村环境的见解。智力优势：校园内以教育研究为导向的中心和部门正在与教师准备和新的教师支持计划以及Noyce项目合作，以招聘有才华的STEM本科生从事教学工作。他们与学生一起工作，帮助他们在普渡大学期间探索他们所在技术领域的教育问题，特别是在农村社区，并在他们最初的教学年中通过项目支持他们。诺伊斯学者被安置在CRESME的智力上。它负责项目基础设施、课程和课程设计，并负责跟踪学者，以确定项目成果。作为教师培训计划的一部分，诺伊斯学者正在参与高级论文项目(在各自学科的现有STEM教育研究工作中作为助理进行研究)和一个特别的诺伊斯研讨会课程。他们在普渡大学期间和开始教学生涯后，也都得到了支持和指导网络。更广泛的影响：通过传播从该项目中吸取的经验教训，普渡大学正在提高其向STEM教师提供教育服务的能力，并正在向印第安纳州日益多样化、服务不足的农村和小城镇社区以及在印第安纳州和全国范围内使用的教育模式提供直接外展援助。

This project involves the Purdue University Colleges of Science, Education, Engineering and Technology in a partnership with Crawfordsville, Logansport, and Benton County schools, all small town and rural districts. Up to 35 science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) majors are being helped by this Noyce project in their efforts to become high school science and mathematics teachers. Support is provided through scholarships (some with one year of aid and others with two years of aid, reflecting the years remaining to the student's degree when the scholarships are first awarded) and through a program designed for them in cooperation with other existing and emerging programs for STEM teacher workforce development at Purdue. The Purdue Center for Research and Engagement in Science and Mathematics Education (CRESME), a joint effort between the Colleges of Science and Education, is taking the lead in this effort, aided by other educational research units on the Purdue campus, including the Colleges of Technology and Engineering, and the Discovery Learning Center. The program is improving STEM education within small, rural school districts around Purdue and is providing insights that may be extended to similar rural settings around the nation.Intellectual Merit: Educational research-oriented centers and departments on campus are working with teacher preparation and new teacher support programs and the Noyce project to recruit talented STEM undergraduates to teaching careers. They are working with the students, helping them explore the educational issues in their technical fields while at Purdue, especially in rural communities, and supporting them programmatically during their initial teaching years. The Noyce Scholars are being housed intellectually within CRESME. which is responsible for project infrastructure, curricula and course design, and for tracking of the scholars in order to determine project outcomes. As part of their teacher preparation program Noyce Scholars are participating in senior thesis projects (conducting research as assistants in existing STEM education research efforts in their disciplines) and a special Noyce seminar course. They are also being provided with a network of support and mentoring both while they are at Purdue and after they begin their teaching careers. Broader Impacts: Through dissemination of lessons learned from this project, Purdue is improving its ability to provide STEM teachers with education services and is providing direct outreach assistance to the increasingly diverse underserved rural and small town communities of Indiana and educational models for use throughout Indiana and the nation.