STEM Teaching Excellence in High-Need Schools: Teacher Preparation in the Nation's Capital

随着国家面临对强大的技术劳动力的日益迫切的需求，中学继续面临着填补STEM学科领域拥有丰富教学知识的持证教师短缺的挑战。在帮助应对这些挑战方面，高需求学生是一个没有得到充分利用的群体。乔治华盛顿大学(GW)第1轨道：罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金和津贴(S和S)项目与劳登县社区学院(LCCC)合作，将招聘、许可和保留27名生物、化学、数学和物理方面的优秀本科专业学生，成为高需求学校的6-12年级STEM教师。这个Noyce项目将识别和教育以前没有选择成为教师的新的数学和科学教师。该项目的Pre-Noyce阶段将为乔治华盛顿大学和LCCC的新生提供机会，通过课程、研讨会和专注于高需求人群的服务学习项目中的相关第一手经验，了解高需求社区。Noyce的学生将通过参与本科研究项目和与知名外部合作伙伴(包括Smithsonian、国家健康研究所和高科技公司)的实习来加深他们的学科知识。此外，诺伊斯的学生在诺伊斯项目期间将得到密集的指导，诺伊斯的毕业生将在他们在高需求学校任教的头几年得到指导。华盛顿大都会地区和全国数以千计的中学生将受益于GW Noyce计划带来的科学和数学教学的改善。在高需求学校培养高素质的中学数学和科学教师对于支持我们国家日益由STEM驱动的经济至关重要。GW Noyce项目是由GW以研究为基础的本科生STEM计划提供信息的，这些计划将丰富GW新教师的STEM内容知识，确保Noyce STEM教师将拥有与其他STEM专业人员相同水平的严格内容知识。Noyce之前阶段的学生包括乔治华盛顿大学和LCCC的一年级和二年级学生，他们将在二年级被邀请参加一个学习助理计划，以发展教学技能和了解教师职业。来自Pre-Noyce组的学生将申请加入Noyce学者计划，该计划为他们的三年级和四年级提供奖学金。GW Noyce项目将增进对Noyce计划对高需求学校培养高素质STEM教师的影响的了解。将通过在STEM教育期刊上发表会议报告和出版物来传播项目成果。

As the nation faces an increasingly critical need for a strong technology workforce, secondary schools continue to be challenged with fulfilling the shortage of licensed teachers with strong content knowledge in STEM disciplines. High-need students are an insufficiently tapped population for helping meet these challenges. This George Washington University (GW) Track 1: Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarships and Stipends (S&S) project, in partnership with Loudoun County Community College (LCCC), will recruit, license, and retain 27 high-achieving undergraduate majors in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics to become grades 6-12 STEM teachers in high-need schools. This Noyce project will identify and educate new math and science teachers who had not previously chosen to become teachers. A pre-Noyce phase of the project will provide opportunities for incoming students at GW and LCCC to learn about high-need communities through courses, seminars, and related first-hand experiences in service learning projects focused on high-need populations. Noyce students will deepen their content knowledge through participation in undergraduate research projects and internships with established external partners, including Smithsonian, National Institute of Health, and high-tech companies. Additionally, Noyce students will receive intensive mentoring while in the Noyce program, and Noyce graduates will receive mentoring in their first years of teaching in high-need schools. Thousands of secondary students in the DC metropolitan area, and across the nation, will benefit from improved science and math instruction as a result of the GW Noyce program. Producing high-caliber secondary math and science teachers in high-need schools is essential to support our nation's increasingly STEM-driven economy.The GW Noyce project is informed by GW's rigorous, research-based undergraduate STEM initiatives that will enrich the STEM content knowledge of new GW teachers, assuring that Noyce STEM teachers will have content knowledge at the same level of rigor as other STEM professionals. The pre-Noyce phase cohort, comprised of first and second year students from GW and LCCC, will be invited in their sophomore years to join a Learning Assistants program to develop teaching skills and learn about the teaching profession. Students from the pre-Noyce group will apply for admission into the Noyce Scholars program, which provides scholarships for their junior and senior years. The GW Noyce project will advance knowledge about Noyce program impacts on the production of highly qualified STEM teachers in high-need schools. Dissemination of project results will occur through conference presentations and publications in STEM education journals.