Northeast Tennessee Robert Noyce Scholarship Program

阿巴拉契亚东北部田纳西州地区的地理隔离和严重的资源限制使STEM教师的招聘和保留成为一项挑战。东北田纳西州罗伯特·诺伊斯奖学金计划是一个三管齐下的方法，以解决许多人缺乏机会、经济能力和支持而无法成为高中数学教师的问题。该项目正在通过暑期实习招聘和组建未来的教师队伍。这些本科生是“有指导的导师”，他们被整合到现有的高中生项目中。实习生接触到他们未来可能的职业生涯的中心焦点——通过指导、项目和对话与高中生一起工作。在这样做的同时，他们自己也被指导如何最好地与这些高中生互动。该项目向24名准备成为教师的初高中数学专业学生提供奖学金。通过丰富活动，特别是在计算科学和教学技术领域，促进了在职教师和队列教师的联网。一个学年的讲座/研讨会/讨论系列以现代技术为特色，如网络研讨会和远程参与。Noyce学者团队正在设计和组织课外活动，其中大多数都有在职教师参与。这将学者们介绍给他们未来的同事，并让他们接触到STEM高中教师职业生涯的非教学方面，让他们在大学毕业前对未来的工作有一个坚实的认识。

The geographic isolation and severe resource limitations of schools in the Northeast Tennessee region of Appalachia make the recruitment and retention of STEM teachers a challenge. The Northeast Tennessee Robert Noyce Scholarship Program is a three-pronged approach to the lack of opportunity, financial ability, and support that prevent many from becoming high school mathematics teachers. The project is recruiting and forming cohorts of future teachers via summer internships. These undergraduates are "mentored mentors" who are integrated into existing programs for high school students. Interns are exposed to the central focus of their possible future career - that of working with high school students through instruction, projects, and dialogue. While doing so, they themselves are mentored on how best to interact with these high school students. The project is providing scholarships to 24 junior and senior mathematics majors who are preparing to become teachers. Networking of inservice and cohort teachers is facilitated via enrichment activities especially in the areas of computational science and instructional technology. An academic year lecture/workshop/discussion series features modern technologies such as webinars and remote location participation. Noyce scholar cohorts are designing and organizing extra-curricular activities, most of which involve in-service teachers. This introduces the scholars to their future colleagues and exposes them to the non-instructional aspects of a career as a STEM high school instructor, giving them a solid view of their future jobs before they graduate from college.