A Community Building Approach to Preparing Secondary Science and Math Teachers

在国家科学基金会罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划的资助下，迦太基·诺伊斯奖学金计划将招募生物、化学、数学和物理专业的本科生，并为他们成为6-12年级的科学和数学教师做好准备。这个Noyce项目将在5年内资助26名奖学金获得者。在这个项目中，威斯康星州基诺沙市的迦太基学院将与威斯康星州东南部的高需求初中和高中合作。学者将被招募到教师资格认证计划中，通过一月份学期的STEM教学沉浸和随后的研讨会课程获得早期教学机会。奖学金获得者将在迦太基著名的夏季本科生研究经验中与教师一起进行真实的STEM研究。这个为期10周的暑期计划还将为学者提供与在职科学和数学教师一起工作的机会，这些教师将被邀请参加为期4周的附属研究体验。该项目将通过一个STEM教学实践社区，在颁发教学执照之前和教学的最初几年为学者提供指导机会。社区建设活动将包括定期以任务为导向的会议和暑期务虚会，涉及与有效和有经验的在职教师一起编制综合STEM课程。迦太基学院的STEM和教育教师联盟将与威斯康星州的中学合作，实施一项独特的数学和科学教师招聘和准备计划。迦太基诺伊斯奖学金计划将通过身临其境的、得到良好支持的教学经验优先考虑早期招聘，并将通过特定的课程作业和高需求学校的有针对性的临床经验，为在城市环境中成功的中级教学量身定做后续准备。接触真实的科学和数学研究将提高教师准备的深度，并为职前和在职教师提供专业水平的科学和数学跨学科性质的宝贵经验。该项目还将建立一个STEM教学实践社区，在该社区中，联网活动、正式的导师安排和暑期静修活动将培养学者作为教师的职业认同感和自我效能。STEM社区的教学实践活动将在每年的暑期静修活动中达到高潮，在那里，学者和在职教师将接受挑战，共同设计符合下一代科学标准的跨学科课程。通过课程设计务虚会制作的综合STEM课程将广泛提供，作为该计划的结果，以加强其他高需求STEM课堂的课程。

With funding from the National Science Foundation's Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program, the Carthage Noyce Scholarship program will recruit undergraduate majors in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics and prepare them to become grades 6-12 science and math teachers. This Track 1 Noyce project will fund 26 scholarship recipients over 5 years. In this project, Carthage College in Kenosha, WI will collaborate with high-need middle and high schools in southeast Wisconsin. Scholars will be recruited into the teaching licensure program with early teaching opportunities through a STEM teaching immersion in the January term and through subsequent seminar classes. Scholarship recipients will conduct authentic STEM research alongside faculty in Carthage's well-established Summer Undergraduate Research Experience. This 10-week summer program will also provide an opportunity for scholars to work alongside in-service science and math teachers, who will be invited to participate in an affiliated 4-week research experience. The project will provide mentorship opportunities for scholars before teaching licensure and during their early years of teaching through a community of STEM teaching practice. Community building activities will include regular task-oriented meetings and summer retreats involving integrated STEM curriculum creation alongside effective and experienced in-service teachers. A coalition of STEM and education faculty at Carthage College will implement a distinctive math and science teacher recruitment and preparation program in partnership with secondary schools in Wisconsin. The Carthage Noyce Scholarship program will prioritize early recruitment through immersive, well-supported teaching experiences and will tailor subsequent preparation for successful secondary-level teaching in urban settings through specific coursework as well as targeted clinical experiences in high-need schools. Exposure to authentic scientific and mathematical research will improve the depth of teacher preparation and provide valuable experience with the interdisciplinary nature of professional-level science and math to pre-service and in-service teachers . The project will also establish a community of STEM teaching practice wherein networking events, formal mentorship arrangements, and summer retreats develop scholars' professional identity and self-efficacy as teachers. Community of STEM teaching practice events will culminate each year in a summer retreat where scholars and in-service teachers are challenged to collaboratively design interdisciplinary curricula aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards. Integrated STEM lessons produced by curriculum design retreats will be made widely available as an outcome of the program to enhance curriculum in other high-need STEM classrooms.