Energizing STEM Teaching Across Rural Schools

在美国国家科学基金会罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划的资助下，Juniata College Energizing STEM Teaching Across Rural Schools（E-STARS）计划招募了生物学，化学，地质学，数学和物理学的本科专业，以获得中学教学认证，在7至12年级教授科学或数学，重点关注服务不足和表现不佳的农村学校。 该项目在五年内资助至少20个奖学金。Juniata College与Huntingdon Area School District，Juniata Valley School District，Mount Union Area School District和Southern Huntingdon Area School District合作。E-STARS奖学金计划将汇集Juniata科学，数学和教育教师，以及Juniata的运动科学（SIM）教育工作者与邻近的农村学区合作，毕业于更多从事教育工作者，他们有经验并配备了工具来谈判具有挑战性的农村教学环境。毕业后，E-STARS学者将在各自的STEM领域打下坚实的基础，拥有大量高质量的课程资源，并且还将完成一项培训计划，该培训计划富含实践，基于探究的教学经验，突出了服务不足的农村初中和高中人口的独特性。 除了大三和大四的奖学金，该项目将资助大一和大二STEM学生在为期5周的夏季课程中探索教育领域的夏季机会，其中包括三个大学学分的课程材料超过三周的教育系统的基础结构和70个实地实习小时的额外学分，包括：40小时与在职教师在他/她的农村数学或科学教室和30个额外的小时旅行，并提出科学实验室与Juniata学院SIM推广计划。 E-STARS学者每年夏天还将充分参与在职教师的STEM重点研讨会。此外，每个E-STARS学者将获得夏季津贴，用于研究或以STEM教育为重点的实习。所有学者将参加州和国家专业组织，出席并在各自的会议上发言。E-STARS领导团队将与外部评估人员合作，以了解该计划的有效性。 评估将用于制定基于证据的建议，以加强其他中等规模的文科高等教育机构对农村STEM教育工作者的培训，这些建议将由领导小组在州和国家科学和数学专业会议上传播。

With funding from the National Science Foundation's Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program, the Juniata College Energizing STEM Teaching Across Rural Schools (E-STARS) program recruits undergraduate majors in biology, chemistry, geology, math and physics, to additionally earn their secondary teaching certification to teach science or mathematics in grades 7 to 12, focusing on underserved, and underperforming rural schools. The project is funding a minimum of 20 scholarships over five years. Juniata College is collaborating with Huntingdon Area School District, Juniata Valley School District, Mount Union Area School District, and Southern Huntingdon Area School District. The E-STARS Scholarship program will bring together Juniata science, mathematics, and education faculty, and Juniata's Science in Motion (SIM) educators in partnerships with neighboring rural school districts, to graduate more engaged educators who have experience in and are equipped with tools to negotiate the challenging rural teaching environment. Upon graduation, E-STARS Scholars will have developed a solid foundation in their respective STEM fields, have a plethora of high quality curricular resources, and will also have completed a training program that is enriched with hands-on, inquiry based teaching experiences highlighting the uniqueness of populations in underserved rural middle and high schools. In addition to the scholarships in the junior and senior years, the project will fund summer opportunities for freshmen and sophomore STEM students to explore the educational field in a 5 week summer course which will include three college credits of course material over three weeks on the foundational structure of education systems and an additional credit for 70 field placement hours in schools including: 40 hours with an in-service teacher in his/her rural math or science classroom and 30 additional hours traveling and presenting science labs with the Juniata College SIM outreach program. E-STARS scholars will also fully participate each summer in STEM focused workshops for in-service teachers. In addition, each E-STARS scholar will receive a summer stipend for working on research or an internship that is STEM education focused. All scholars will participate in state and national professional organizations, attending and presenting at their respective conferences. The E-STARS Leadership Team will work with an external evaluator to understand the effectiveness of the program. The evaluation will be used to develop evidence-based recommendations for enhancing the training of rural STEM educators at other mid-sized liberal-arts institutions of higher education, which will be disseminated by the Leadership Team at state and national scientific and mathematical professional conferences.