Science Teacher and Researcher (STAR) National Pilot Proposal

科学教师和研究人员（星星）计划通过在大学，K-12地区，联邦研究机构和行业之间的创新伙伴关系中创建一个着名的双重“教师-研究人员”职业道路，解决科学和数学教师招聘和保留危机。星星利用现有的联邦研究和开发资产，以帮助准备新一代的科学和数学教师配备的技能，以激励我们国家的学生选择STEM（科学，技术，工程和数学）的职业道路。星星计划有三个主要目标来解决科学和数学教学的危机：1）加强招聘高质量的教师，2）改善教师教育和专业发展，3）提高教师保留率。成立于2007年在加州理工学院，圣路易斯奥比斯波代表加州州立大学（CSU）系统实施，星星提供尖端的研究经验和教师在早期的关键年的职业发展。星星计划的关键经验是在国家实验室或美国宇航局研究中心的带薪夏季研究实习。实习包括每周由硕士教师，科学教育教师和研究机构的教育工作人员进行的教育研讨会和讲习班。 通过在科学实践的社区中锚定副教授，他们更好地理解作为科学或数学教师的研究人员意味着什么。 星星计划的试点扩展，基于该计划在加州州的成功，正在资助45名诺伊斯学者成为星星研究员，其中20人在加州州，25人在其他五个州的新试点星星大学实验室合作伙伴关系中。 它正在增加诺伊斯学者星星研究员的人数，并允许评估星星计划作为全国诺伊斯计划的增值组成部分的影响，并为关于为兼职教师提供研究经验的影响的研究文献做出贡献。

The Science Teacher and Researcher (STAR) program addresses the science and mathematics teacher recruitment and retention crisis by creating a prestigious dual "teacher-researcher" career path in an innovative partnership between universities, K-12 districts, federal research agencies, and industry. STAR leverages existing federal research and development assets to help prepare a new generation of science and math teachers equipped with the skills to inspire more of our nation's students to choose STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) career paths. The STAR program has three main goals for addressing the crisis in science and mathematics teaching: 1) enhanced recruitment of high quality teachers, 2) improved teacher education and professional development, and 3) improved teacher retention rates. Founded and implemented in 2007 at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo on behalf of the California State University (CSU) system, STAR provides cutting edge research experiences and career development for teachers during the early critical years. The key experience of the STAR program is a paid summer research internship in a national laboratory or at a NASA research center. The internship includes weekly education seminars and workshops conducted by master teachers, science education faculty, and education staff at the research facility. By anchoring preservice teachers in a community of scientific practice, they better understand what it means to be a researcher as well as a teacher of science or mathematics. This pilot expansion of the STAR program, based on the success of the program in California, is funding 45 Noyce Scholars to become STAR Fellows with 20 in California and 25 in new pilot STAR university-laboratory partnerships in up to five other states. It is increasing the pool of STAR Fellows who are Noyce Scholars and allowing evaluation of the impact of the STAR program as a value-added component of Noyce programs across the country and contributing to the research literature on the impact of providing research experiences for preservice teachers.