Collaboration for Opportunities in and Advancement of STEM Teaching and Learning

在Robert Noyce教师奖学金计划（Noyce）的支持下，加州大学圣巴巴拉分校（UCSB）的这一途径1：奖学金和津贴项目旨在满足国家为高需求学区培养高质量科学教师的需求。 与圣巴巴拉城市学院、圣巴巴拉联合学区和沃尔夫探索与创新博物馆（MOXI）合作，UCSB打算培养科学教师，他们将在向文化和语言多样的学生教授科学和工程方面非常有效。通过实地实习和课程，该项目将吸引本科实习生和教师候选学者有效地使用下一代科学标准。 这一目标将通过强调融合科学来实现，其中包括科学和工程学科之间的思想，方法和技术的融合。招聘策略包括职业指导，接触杰出的教育工作者榜样，有关职业机会的信息，一对一的指导，并有针对性地帮助社区学院的学生转到四年制大学。该项目的预期成果包括：（1）鼓励STEM本科生将教学作为一种职业，并支持获得STEM学科学位的学士后学生获得教师认证;（2）增加UCSB训练有素、备受尊敬的科学教师的产量;（3）毕业学者与所需的知识和技能，在自己的高需求的学校发展创新的科学计划;以及（4）传播在培养优秀科学教师和向高需求学校的所有学生教授融合科学方面有效的策略。在五年的时间里，该项目旨在支持24名STEM本科生实习，并培养52名具有STEM学士学位的初级中学科学教师，教学认证。该项目将共同努力，以吸引高成就的学生谁是第一代大学生，代表性不足的学生，英语学习者，和/或从社区学院转学的学生。为了招募和准备多样化的本科实习生和教师候选人，UCSB将与MOXI和位于高需求圣巴巴拉联合学区的Dos Pueblos高中工程学院（DPEA）合作，目标是将融合科学融入教师认证计划。本科生将完成为期一年的实习，学习收敛科学教学。在实习期间，他们将被安置在DPEA和MOXI，以及在UCSB的入门科学教育课程报名。除了常规的教师教育课程和实地经验外，教师候选学者还将参加DPEA的工业和技术教育方法课程，并参加MOXI的实地考察。通过这些努力，该项目旨在培养以改革为基础的、具有平等意识的科学教师，他们将为加州多样化的中学生提供更多获得优秀和创新的STEM教育的机会。诺伊斯计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人士成为有效的K-12 STEM教师和经验丰富的模范K-12 STEM教师，成为高需求学区的STEM硕士教师。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

With support from the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce), this Track 1: Scholarships and Stipends project at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) aims to serve the national need to prepare high-quality science teachers for high-need school districts. In partnership with Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara Unified School District, and the Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation (MOXI), UCSB intends to develop science teachers who will be highly effective in teaching both science and engineering to culturally and linguistically diverse students. Through field placements and coursework, the project will engage undergraduate interns and Teacher Candidate Scholars to be effective in using the Next Generation Science Standards. This goal will be accomplished by emphasizing convergent science, which includes the merging of ideas, approaches, and technologies among the disciplines of science and engineering. The recruitment strategies include career guidance, exposure to exceptional educator role models, information about career opportunities, one-on-one mentoring, and targeted assistance for community college students transferring to a four-year university. The expected outcomes of the project include: (1) encouraging STEM undergraduates to consider teaching as a career and supporting post-baccalaureate students with degrees in a STEM discipline to become certified as teachers; (2) increasing UCSB's production of thoroughly trained, highly respected science teachers; (3) graduating Scholars with the knowledge and skills needed to grow innovative science programs in their own high-need schools; and (4) disseminating strategies found effective in both preparing exceptional science teachers and teaching convergent science to all students in high-need schools.Over its five-year duration, the project aims to support 24 STEM undergraduates in internships and produce 52 beginning secondary science teachers with baccalaureate STEM degrees and teaching certification. The project will make a concerted effort to attract high-achieving students who are first generation college students, underrepresented students, English learners, and/or transfer students from community colleges. To recruit and prepare diverse undergraduate interns and teacher candidates, UCSB will collaborate with both MOXI and the Dos Pueblos High School's Engineering Academy (DPEA), located in the high-needs Santa Barbara Unified School District, with the goal of integrating convergence science in the teacher certification program. Undergraduates will complete a yearlong internship to learn about teaching convergent science. During the internship, they will be placed at DPEA and MOXI, as well as enroll in an introductory science education course at UCSB. In addition to their regular teacher education coursework and field experiences, teacher Candidate Scholars will participate in an Industrial and Technology Education methods course at DPEA and attend field trips to MOXI. Through these efforts, the project aims to produce reform-based, equity-minded science teachers who will provide California's diverse secondary school students with greater access to an excellent and innovative STEM education. The Noyce program supports talented STEM undergraduate majors and professionals to become effective K-12 STEM teachers and experienced, exemplary K-12 STEM teachers to become STEM master teachers in high-need school districts. It also supports research on the persistence, retention, and effectiveness of K-12 STEM teachers in high-need school districts.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.