Robert Noyce Scholarship Program for Science and Mathematics Teachers

德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校（UTA）及其独立学区（ISD）和社区学院合作伙伴正在为54名准备成为认证科学或数学教师的个人提供奖学金支持。合作伙伴包括达拉斯、阿灵顿、沃斯堡和赫斯特-尤利斯贝德福德学区，以及塔兰特县学院（TCC）。该项目正在招募已经持有STEM学士学位的职业转行者，以及在STEM学位课程的大三和大四的本科生。该项目提供了一个校园课程、在线指导和课堂教学经验的计划，以认证四个学区的新科学和数学教师。项目目标包括：1)从学士学位项目、社区学院招聘数学和科学教师候选人，以及从当地行业转行的教师；2)为候选人提供高质量的双轨教师认证计划；3)通过项目及其早期教学对候选人进行引导、监督和指导。该项目重点关注中学生命科学、地球科学和中级（4-8年级）科学和数学教师的发展，这是对早期对数学和物理科学教师的关注的补充。UT阿灵顿大学通过新资助的U-Teach复制补助金的支持，为这项工作带来了一个全面的STEM教师候选人招聘计划。该项目采用了UTA ncate认可的认证计划的最佳实践。该项目专门针对攻读学士学位课程的少数族裔学生，以及职业转换者。此外，为了实现其目标，即解决对能够为大部分弱势城市中学生提供优秀科学和数学学习经验的特别合格教师的迫切需求，合作伙伴关系是：-扩大其现有的网站，为候选人提供获取资源的途径，帮助他们成为学习者社区的成员，特别是在他们的入门阶段；—组建并支持由UTA教育与科学学院领导的队列小组，并将候选人与导师教师联系起来，指导实地经验和入门，并提供持续的教学支持；-通过将本科生候选人安排在合作学区与导师教师一起进行教学，从一开始到整个课程，他们都有广泛的实地经验；——让候选人参与基于标准的探究教学、基于问题的教学经验、行动研究、课程开发和反思实践，并通过网站发帖、在线互动和专业风格的演讲分享发现、课程和反思；——为本科学生提供两年的奖学金，为转行学生提供一年的津贴，以完成教师认证课程；——实施一项评估计划，评估项目在招聘、准备和留住教师候选人方面的有效性，并促进对奖学金/津贴获得者在城市学区履行教学义务的跟踪；——通过研究、学术出版物和专业会议上的演讲，传播本项目的发现和最佳实践。

The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) and its independent school district (ISD) and community college partners is providing scholarship support to fifty-four individuals preparing to become certified science or mathematics teachers. Partners include Dallas, Arlington, Fort Worth, and Hurst-Euless Bedford ISDs, and Tarrant County College (TCC). The project is recruiting both career changers who already hold STEM baccalaureate degrees, as well as undergraduate students in their junior and senior years of STEM degree programs. The project provides a program of campus courses, online mentoring, and classroom teaching experiences to certify the new science and mathematics teachers for the four school districts. Program objectives include: 1) recruitment of mathematics and science teacher candidates from baccalaureate programs, community colleges, and career changers from local industry, 2) providing a quality two-track teacher certification program for candidates, and 3) induction, monitoring, and mentoring of candidates through the program and their early years of teaching. This project focuses on the development of secondary life science, earth science, and middle-level (grades 4-8) science and mathematics teachers, which complements an earlier focus on teachers of mathematics and the physical sciences.UT Arlington brings to this work a comprehensive STEM teacher candidate recruiting program already in place through support of the newly funded U-Teach replication grant. The project employs best practices of the UTA NCATE-accredited certification program. The project specifically targets minority students in baccalaureate programs, as well as career changer pools. In addition, in order to achieve its goals related to addressing the urgent need for exceptionally qualified teachers who can provide outstanding science and mathematics learning experiences for the largely disadvantaged, urban secondary school students, the partnership is: --Expanding its existing website for the program to provide candidates with access to resources and help them become members of a community of learners, particularly during their induction period; --Forming and supporting cohort groups led by UTA Education and Science faculty and link candidates with Mentor Teachers to guide field experiences and induction, and provide continued teaching support; --Introducing undergraduate candidates to teaching by placing them in partner school districts with Mentor Teachers for extensive field experiences from the beginning and throughout their programs; --Engaging candidates in standards-based inquiry teaching, problem-based teaching experiences, action research, curriculum development, and reflective practice, and in the sharing of findings, curricula, and reflections via website postings, online interactions, and professional-style presentations;--Providing two years of scholarships for baccalaureate students and a one-year stipend for career change candidates to complete their teacher certification program; --Implementing an evaluation plan that assesses the project's effectiveness in recruiting, preparing, and retaining teacher candidates, and that facilitates tracking of scholarship/stipend recipients as they fulfill their teaching obligation in the urban school districts; and --Disseminating findings and best practices of this project through research, and scholarly publications and presentations at professional conferences.