Building Reciprocal Relationships: Mentorships to Strengthen and Sustain STEM Teachers

该项目旨在满足国家培养高素质STEM教师的需求。该项目旨在招募STEM毕业生作为诺伊斯学者参加杜克大学的教学艺术硕士（MAT）课程。该项目旨在为诺伊斯学者提供重要的财政支持，因为他们在MAT课程的第一年开始获得学位和强有力的指导，并在高需求学区的STEM教学的第一年继续。该项目的重点是招募具有STEM学位的多元化群体。此外，该项目还打算对早期职业教师的自我效能和职业认同问题进行研究。该研究结果可以帮助我们了解如何留住STEM教师，并帮助我们找到增加长期从事教学工作的教师数量的方法。杜克大学的这个项目包括与达勒姆公立学校的合作。项目目标包括：1）招募和招收五批高素质的STEM毕业生和职业中期专业人士，共25名诺伊斯学者; 2）为诺伊斯学者提供支持9-12年级学生数学和科学成绩所需的资源; 3）在他们职业生涯的前三年支持诺伊斯学者，因为他们在高需求学区任教;以及4）确定在为高需求学区招聘、准备和留住高素质教师方面最有效的因素。该研究计划将包括采访和调查教师谁是目前的诺伊斯学者，以及那些谁参加了以前的诺伊斯赠款。本研究的目的是考虑自我效能感和专业身份，结构已被确定为重要的，当考虑坚持教学。此轨道1：奖学金和津贴是通过罗伯特诺伊斯教师奖学金计划（诺伊斯）的支持。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。

This project aims to serve the national need for preparing highly qualified STEM teachers. The project seeks to recruit STEM graduates to participate as Noyce Scholars in a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program at Duke University. The project intends to provide the Noyce Scholars with significant financial support as they earn their degree and strong mentoring that starts in their first year in the MAT program and continues during their first years of STEM teaching in a high-need school district. The project focuses on recruiting a diverse group of individuals with STEM degrees. Additionally, the project intends to conduct research on issues of self-efficacy and professional identity for early career teachers. The research results can contribute to what is known about retaining STEM teachers and help develop ways to increase the number of teachers who have long careers in teaching.This project at Duke University includes a partnership with Durham Public Schools. Project goals include to: 1) recruit and enroll five cohorts of five highly-qualified STEM graduates and mid-career professionals for a total of 25 Noyce Scholars; 2) provide the Noyce Scholars with the resources needed to support grades 9-12 student achievement in mathematics and science; 3) support the Noyce Scholars during the first three years of their career as they teach in high-need school districts; and 4) determine the factors that are most effective in recruiting, preparing, and retaining highly-qualified teachers for high-need school districts. The research plan will include interviews and surveys of teachers who are current Noyce Scholars, as well as those who participated in previous Noyce grants. This research aims to consider self-efficacy and professional identity, constructs that have been determined to be important when considering persistence in teaching. This Track 1: Scholarships and Stipends is supported through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce). 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.