Collaboration for Excellence in Science and Math Education II

卓越科学和数学教育合作II项目是阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校的罗伯特·诺伊斯第一轨奖学金和津贴项目。该项目加入了UAB的社区外展发展中心、UABTeach和当地历史悠久的黑人学院劳森州立社区学院(LSCC)。通过这些伙伴关系，该项目旨在增加该国这一高需求地区的STEM中学教师人数，并建立一条通往中学STEM职业的新的学生渠道。在五年的项目期内，至少42名STEM专业本科生和STEM研究生将获得诺伊斯奖学金，成为STEM教师。在毕业生在高需求学校任教的头几年，将通过入职努力继续为所有学者提供支持。该项目还将向社区学院的学生介绍STEM教学生涯。这一经历将通过一个学术和实践经验项目为社区大学生提供发展支持，这些项目将导致STEM教师通过STEM中学教育(MAED)的理学学士学位或硕士学位认证。该项目将调查培养STEM教师的三种模式的用处和成功：第一种模式是一个多年制课程，将吸引一年级和二年级的学生，并为三年级和四年级的STEM专业的学生提供奖学金；第二种模式将让学生进入STEM专业的第三或第四年，从而获得获得教师认证的5年制硕士学位；第三种模式是一个为期一年的课程，将吸引已经拥有STEM学士学位的转行者。第一类学生将通过参加UAB或LSCC的探究式课程和为初中生或高中生提供的非正式暑期STEM课程来进入该项目。许多MAED学生将作为主持人参加UAB的暑期科学学院，这将为他们提供基于探究的教育和深入的STEM教育体验。这些模式将积极招收目前在中等STEM教育中代表性不足的学生。该项目将通过课堂访问、专业学习社区、UAB教职员工支持以及许多STEM中等教育外展发展计划的资源为毕业生提供支持。该项目的目标是培养一支优秀的教师队伍，他们将留在中等STEM教育中，致力于在高需求学校教授和即兴开展STEM教育，并增加这三个项目如何以及为什么成功的知识库。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Collaboration for Excellence in Science and Math Education II project is a Robert Noyce Track 1 Scholarships & Stipends project at the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB). The project joins UAB's Center for Community OutReach Development, UABTeach, and Lawson State Community College (LSCC), a local Historically Black College. Through these partnerships, the project aims to increase the number of STEM secondary teachers in this high-need area of the country and build a new student pipeline to secondary education STEM careers. Over the five-year project period, at least 42 undergraduate STEM majors and STEM post-baccalaureates will receive Noyce scholarships to become STEM teachers. Support for all scholars will continue through induction efforts during the graduates' first years in teaching in high-need schools. The project will also introduce community college students to STEM teaching careers. This experience will provide developmental support for community college students through a program of academics and practical experiences that lead to STEM teacher certification through either a Bachelor of Science degree or a master's degree with certification in secondary STEM education (MAEd). The project will investigate the usefulness and success of three models for preparing STEM teachers: Model Type 1 is a multi-year program that will engage first and second year students and provide scholarships to juniors and senior STEM majors; Model Type 2 will engage students in their third or fourth year in a STEM major, leading to a 5th year MAEd degree with teacher certification; and Model Type 3 is a one-year program that will engage career changers who already have a STEM bachelor's degree. Model Type 1 students will enter the program by taking inquiry-based courses at UAB or LSCC and informal summer STEM programs for middle school or high school students. Many of the MAEd students will enter the program by participating as facilitators in UAB's Summer Science Institute, which will provide them with a taste of inquiry-based education and in-depth STEM educational experiences. The models will aggressively recruit students who are currently underrepresented in secondary STEM education. This project will support the graduates via classroom visits, Professional Learning Communities, UAB faculty support, and resources via many Center for OutReach Development programs for secondary STEM education. The project goal is to create a cadre of excellent teachers who will remain in secondary STEM education and be committed to teaching and improvising STEM education in high needs schools and to add to the knowledge base of how and why these three programs are successful.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.