Chattanooga STEM Education Noyce Scholarship Program

根据全国教师短缺地区名单，全美中学数学和科学教师持续短缺。为了解决这一短缺问题，Track 1：Chattanooga STEM Education Noyce奖学金计划(CSENSP)旨在增加田纳西大学查塔努加分校(UTC)本科STEM专业进入教师职业的数量和多样性。该项目将包括在汉密尔顿县公立学校进行强化的驻场教学体验。CSENSP的目标包括：吸引高素质的STEM专业学生到高需求学区从事中等STEM教学工作；鼓励在STEM学科中传统上代表性较低的群体主修STEM领域并寻求中等STEM教师执照；增加中等STEM教育工作者的人数；并在学者的头三年教学中支持他们，特别强调高需求学区的独特挑战。诺伊斯学者将接受定制的专业发展，以提高他们的教学和文化能力技能。此外，诺伊斯学者将参加半年一次的研讨会，并每月接受教学指导。该项目包括UTC、汉密尔顿县高需求学区和查塔努加州立社区学院(CSCC)的三所学院之间的合作伙伴关系。通过这些合作关系，CSENSP将向生物、化学、地质、物理、应用数学或计算机科学专业的大三和大四学生提供30个为期两年的奖学金。奖学金获得者(诺伊斯学者？)将承诺在高需求学区任教四年。此外，与CSCC的合作伙伴关系将使44名转学学生能够在CSCC期间加入STEM教师候选人渠道。这些转学学生稍后将有资格成为诺伊斯学者。该项目的形成性和终结性评估结果将向STEM教师培训社区通报STEM教师培训的最佳做法，以满足高需求学校和地区的需要。学生的教学评估工具将通过定性和定量评估提供知识、技能和态度的综合数据。项目成果将包括为使用数据驱动的招聘提供最佳实践，以有效地招募、建议、支持、留住和激励学生成功完成STEM课程并拥有有影响力的STEM教学生涯。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。

According to the Teacher Shortage Areas Nationwide Listing, persistent shortages of secondary mathematics and science teachers exist throughout the United States. To address this shortage, the Track 1: Chattanooga STEM Education Noyce Scholarship Program (CSENSP) aims to increase the number and diversity of undergraduate STEM majors at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) who enter the teaching profession. The project will include an intensive, residency field-based teaching experience in Hamilton County public schools. The goals of CSENSP include: attracting highly qualified STEM majors to secondary STEM teaching careers in high-need school districts; encouraging traditionally underrepresented groups in the STEM disciplines to major in STEM fields and seek secondary STEM teacher licensure; increasing the number of secondary STEM educators; and supporting scholars during their first three years of teaching, with special emphasis on the unique challenges of high-need school districts. Noyce scholars will receive customized professional development to enhance their pedagogical and cultural competence skills. Additionally, Noyce scholars will attend semiannual seminars and receive monthly instructional coaching. This project includes partnerships between three colleges at UTC, the high-need school district of Hamilton County, and Chattanooga State Community College (CSCC). Through these partnerships, CSENSP will provide 30 two-year scholarships to juniors and seniors majoring in biology, chemistry, geology, physics, applied mathematics, or computer science. Scholarship recipients (?Noyce scholars?) will commit to teach for four years in a high-need school district. Additionally, the partnership with CSCC will enable 44 transfer students to join the STEM teacher candidate pipeline while at CSCC. These transfer students will later be eligible to become Noyce scholars. The results of formative and summative assessment of the project will inform the STEM teacher preparation community about best practices for STEM teacher preparation for high-need schools and districts. The students' pedagogical assessment instrument will provide composite data of knowledge, skills, and attitudes, via qualitative and quantitative assessments. Project outcomes will include providing best practices for use of data-driven recruitment to effectively recruit, advise, support, retain, and motivate students to successfully complete a STEM curriculum and have an impactful STEM teaching career.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.