Breaking the Cycle: Preparing Future STEM Teachers for the Highest Need Urban Schools by Embracing Culturally-responsive Instruction

佛罗里达国际大学（FIU）的第一轨道Noyce项目“打破循环：通过接受文化上敏感的教学，为最需要的城市学校培养未来的STEM教师”，将大幅增加准备在高需求学区服务的高素质教师的数量。该项目将招募，准备，管理为期两年的奖学金，并在五年的项目中为33名学者提供上岗培训。FIU是一所拥有54，000多名学生的城市公立研究型大学，正在与迈阿密-戴德县公立学校合作，迈阿密-戴德县公立学校是全国第四大学区，为超过350，000名学生提供服务，在高度多样化的迈阿密，佛罗里达建立项目测试平台。该项目包括金融情报大学学生的多样性，其中78%以上是来自历史上代表性不足的群体，并发展他们的文化适应性教学实践，使他们准备打破持续低成就的循环，成为未来最需要的学校的教育领导者。同时，该项目将建立一个传播模式，使全国范围内的采用和适应。该项目的目标是在诺伊斯学者中发展批判性教学机构，以便通过真正的社区学习为他们在关键需要学校服务做好准备，重点是三个主要活动：1）关键需要学校的真实实地经验，2）队列经验和3）研究和教学实习。诺伊斯学者将主要通过FIUteach计划招募，FIU高保真复制UTeach教师准备模式，该模式已发展成为全国最大的UTeach复制站点之一。入职后，学者将获得专门的支持，包括1）付费现场导师，2）大师指导访问，3）专业发展和4）校友会议，所有这些都补充了地区和学校的入职支持。该项目的研究和评估活动旨在了解如何招聘和准备未来的科学和数学教师，以在最高需求的学校有效，如何支持他们进入这些学校，以及学者的课堂实践如何在项目中取得进展。该项目还将调查教师身份的发展和关键机构在诺伊斯学者职业生涯的奖学金和入职阶段的教学。因此，该项目将产生关键的洞察力的最佳做法，如何准备兼职教师在多样化，城市学校服务。

The Track 1 Noyce project at Florida International University (FIU), "Breaking the cycle: Preparing future STEM teachers for the highest need urban schools by embracing culturally responsive instruction", will substantially increase the number of highly qualified teachers prepared to serve in high-need school districts. The project will recruit, prepare, administer two-year scholarships and facilitate induction for 33 Scholars over the five-year project. FIU, an urban public research university with over 54,000 students, is partnering with Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the fourth largest school district in the nation serving over 350,000 students, to establish the project testbed in highly diverse Miami, Florida. The project embraces the diversity of FIU's student body, over 78% of which are from historically underrepresented groups, and develops their culturally responsive instructional practices so they are prepared to break the cycle of persistent low achievement as future education leaders in the highest need schools. In parallel, the project will establish a dissemination model to enable adoption and adaptation across the nation.The project targets developing critical teaching agency in Noyce Scholars in order to prepare them to serve in critical needs school via authentic community-based learning focused on three major activities: 1) Authentic Field Experiences in Critical Needs Schools, 2) Cohort Experience and 3) Research and Instructional Internships. Noyce Scholars will be primarily recruited through the FIUteach program, FIU's high-fidelity replication of the UTeach teacher preparation model that has developed into one of the nation's largest UTeach replication sites. Upon induction, Scholars will receive dedicated support including 1) a paid on-site mentor, 2) Master Teacher coaching visits, 3) professional development and 4) Alumni meetings, all complementing the induction support of the district and school. The project's research and evaluation activities seek to understand how to recruit and prepare future science and mathematics teachers to be effective in the highest needs schools, how to support their induction into these schools, and how the Scholar's classroom practice progresses over the project. The project will also investigate the development of teacher identity and critical agency for teaching during both the Scholarship and induction phases of Noyce Scholars careers. Thus, the project will generate critical insight into best practices for how to prepare preservice teachers to serve in diverse, urban schools.