Partnering to Prepare Outstanding Mathematics Teachers

在Robert Noyce教师奖学金计划（Noyce）的支持下，该项目旨在满足国家对高效数学教师的需求。和大多数州一样，加州正经历着合格数学教师的严重短缺，这种短缺不成比例地影响着高贫困率和高少数族裔学校。该项目将制定并实施一项密集的外展计划，以招募44名具有专业知识、兴趣和热情的数学专业本科学生。这些学生将获得奖学金和其他支持，帮助他们成为圣华金河谷高需求学校的高效数学教师。奖学金获得者将：1)参加研讨会，帮助他们做好准备，以满足学生的各种需求；2)从事高影响力的研究经验，以发展他们的数学教学知识；3)参与精心组织的高需求学校的早期实地体验。通过挖掘硅谷高中和社区大学的人才，该项目将培养出能够反映该地区人口特征的数学教师。在为期五年的时间里，该项目旨在为高需求学校培养44名新的数学教师。项目活动包括每两周一次的系列研讨会，在研讨会上，学者们将与大师教师和教育研究人员会面，了解未来课堂的最佳教学实践。它还将提供奖学金和高影响力的支持系统，以促进数学本科专业在弗雷斯诺加州州立大学严格的新设计的四年单学科教学证书项目中取得成功。这个创新的新项目将允许学生在四年内毕业，而不是按照该州普遍采用的第五年制学士学位后获得教师资格证书的途径。该项目还将提供单学科、以内容为中心的指导，这是一种基于证据的方法，可以帮助新手教师引导学生理解真正从事数学的意义。该项目将支持与三个高需求学区（弗雷斯诺、克洛维斯和桑格）和教育未来项目的合作，后者是一个由山谷地区14所当地社区学院组成的合作项目。这些合作伙伴将在外联活动和新教师指导新教师方面进行合作。该项目将在整个加州州立大学系统中传播研究结果，以便在其他加州州立大学校园中采用教师教育模式。Noyce计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人士成为高需求学区有效的K-STEM教师，并支持经验丰富的模范K-12 STEM教师成为STEM大师教师。它还支持对高需求学区K-12教师的持久性、留任性和有效性的研究。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识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 & Stipends project aims to serve the national need for highly effective mathematics teachers. As are most states, California is experiencing critical shortages of qualified mathematics teachers and these shortages disproportionately affect high-poverty and high-minority schools. This project will develop and implement an intensive outreach program to recruit 44 undergraduate mathematics majors with the expertise, interest, and passion to teach. These students will receive scholarships and other supports to help them become highly effective mathematics teachers for high-need schools throughout the San Joaquin Valley. The Scholars will: 1) participate in seminars that will help prepare them to meet the diverse needs of students; 2) engage in high impact research experiences to develop their knowledge about teaching mathematics; and 3) participate in carefully structured early field experiences in high-need schools. By tapping talent throughout the Valley's high schools and community colleges, this project will produce mathematics teachers who reflect the demographics of the region. Over its five-year duration, the project aims to prepare 44 new mathematics teachers for high-need schools. The project activities include a bi-weekly seminar series in which Scholars will meet with master teachers and education researchers to learn about best teaching practices for their future classrooms. It will also provide scholarships and a high impact support system to facilitate the success of undergraduate mathematics majors in a rigorous, newly-designed four-year Single Subject Teaching Credential program at California State University, Fresno. The new, innovative program will allow students to graduate in four years rather than following the state's widespread fifth-year post-baccalaureate pathway to a teaching credential. The project will also deliver single subject, content-focused mentoring, an evidence-based approach that may help novice teachers guide student understanding of what it means to authentically engage in mathematics. The project will support a partnership with three high-need school districts (Fresno, Clovis, and Sanger) and the Education Futures Project, a collaborative of 14 local community colleges through the Valley. These partners will collaborate on outreach activities and new teacher mentoring of new teachers. The project will disseminate findings throughout the California State University system, for potential adaptation of the teacher education model at other California State University campuses. The Noyce program supports talented STEM undergraduate majors and professionals to become effective K-STEM teachers in high-need school districts and experienced, exemplary K-12 STEM teachers to become STEM master teachers. It also supports research on the persistence, retention, and effectiveness of K-12 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.