Promoting Undergraduate Licensure in Science Education (PULSE)

PULSE（促进本科科学教育执照）计划招募具有学术才能和经济需求的本科科学专业学生，并以模范的方式培养他们在最需要优秀教师的环境中从事中学科学教学事业：高需求的当地学区。PULSE支持25名致力于在高需求环境中服务的中学科学教师的准备，许可，安置和成功入门。PULSE Noyce奖学金获得者有资格获得最多两年的奖励，金额为每年12,000美元。招聘目标是科罗拉多大学丹佛分校（UCD）表现最好的STEM学生。在STEM教育中，我们特别努力从代表性不足的人群中招募学生，包括亚裔、西班牙裔、黑人和美洲原住民学生，以及残疾学生。PULSE致力于在每个学者队列中包括一名残疾人，并与都柏林大学残疾服务和资源部门合作实现这一目标。PULSE计划使学生能够获得生物学，化学，物理或地理/环境科学的学士学位，同时完成UCD科学教育的独立结构化专业（ISM）课程或完成学士学位后的执照。PULSE提供招聘活动，正式的执照准备计划，高需求学校的实地经验，各种正式和非正式的教学和职业探索机会，STEM或STEM教育研究经验，以及新开发的实习和课程，以增加从事中等科学教学的STEM专业学生的数量和他们的准备质量。为了实施该计划，UCD与奥罗拉公立学校（APS）合作。APS是PULSE提供的许多领域和其他学习经验的网站，也是诺伊斯学者成为认证科学教师的潜在未来就业网站。Noyce学者通过城市社区教师教育（UCTE）计划获得许可，该计划由UCD教育与人类发展学院重新设计，以反映在城市课堂教学中准备教师候选人的研究和最佳实践。诺伊斯学者参与项目特定的学习经验，利用现有的机构优势（例如，科学和科学教育研究和城市教师教育），并与APS建立牢固的合作伙伴关系，提供从大一到诺伊斯学者入职的多方面和发展的经验。诺伊斯学者的学习经历为整合本科科学教育、科学研究、在城市环境中教学的准备以及对教师的有力入职支持提供了典范。该模型的开发、部署和评估有助于STEM教育领域对城市科学教师准备和支持的理解。PULSE Noyce奖学金计划以一种系统的方式回应了培养中学科学教师的国家挑战，这些教师准备在高需求环境中有效地发挥作用。它将ISM与传统STEM课程中有针对性的学生招聘相结合，从传统的K-12科学教育中代表性不足的群体中挑选学生，培养中等科学教育工作者。该项目与APS的合作以及结构化的入职支持为其他教师培训项目以及高需求地区的STEM招聘和保留工作提供了强有力的模式。

The PULSE (Promoting Undergraduate Licensure in Science Education) Program recruits undergraduate science majors with academic talent and financial need and prepares them in an exemplary manner to pursue a secondary science teaching career in settings that have the greatest need for excellent teachers: high-needs local school districts. PULSE supports the preparation, licensure, placement, and successful induction of twenty-five secondary science teachers who are committed to serving in high-needs settings. PULSE Noyce Scholars are eligible to receive awards for up to two years in the amount of $12,000/year. Recruitment targets the highest performing STEM students at the University of Colorado at Denver (UCD). Special efforts are made to recruit from underrepresented populations in STEM education, which include Asian, Hispanic, Black, and Native American students, as well as students with disabilities. PULSE is committed to including one individual with disabilities in each cohort of scholars and works with UCD Disability Services and Resources to achieve this end. The PULSE Program enables students to earn a baccalaureate degree in Biology, Chemistry, Physics or Geography/ Environmental Sciences while simultaneously completing coursework in UCD's science education Individually Structured Major (ISM) or by completing post-baccalaureate licensure. PULSE provides recruitment activities, a formal program of preparation for licensure, field-based experiences in high-needs schools, a variety of formal and informal teaching and career exploration opportunities, STEM or STEM education research experiences, and newly developed internships and coursework to increase both the number of STEM majors who pursue secondary science teaching and the quality of their preparation. To implement the program, UCD partners with Aurora Public Schools (APS). APS serves as the site for many field and other learning experiences provided through PULSE, as well as a site for potential future employment of the Noyce Scholars who become certified science teachers. The Noyce Scholars are licensed through the Urban Community Teacher Education (UCTE) program, which was redesigned by the UCD School of Education and Human Development to reflect research and best practice in preparing teacher candidates for teaching in urban classrooms. The Noyce Scholars participate in program-specific learning experiences that leverage existing institutional strengths (e.g., science and science education research and urban teacher education) and a strong partnership with APS to provide a multi-faceted and developmental set of experiences that span from freshman year through the Noyce scholars' induction years. The learning experiences of the Noyce Scholars serve as a model for integrating undergraduate science education, science research, preparation to teach in urban settings, and strong induction-years support for teachers. The development, deployment, and evaluation of this model are contributing to the STEM education field's understanding of urban science teacher preparation and support. The PULSE Noyce Scholarship Program responds in a systematic way to the national challenge of preparing secondary science teachers who are prepared to function effectively in high-needs settings. It combines the ISM with targeted recruiting of students in traditional STEM courses to prepare secondary science educators drawn from groups traditionally underrepresented in K-12 science education. The program's partnership with APS and structured induction support offers a strong model for other teacher preparation programs and for STEM recruitment and retention efforts in high-needs districts.