Bridging Pathways to Prepare Highly Qualified Mathematics and Science Teachers

该项目旨在服务于国家对高素质数学和科学教师的需求。为此，它将支持大学生获得STEM和中等教育学位，并为他们在高需求学区任教做好准备。具体地说，该项目将招募斯帕坦堡社区学院的STEM学生成为诺伊斯学者。诺伊斯奖学金获得者将获得奖学金，同时攻读STEM专业和中等教育专业。三种不同的实习体验将为大学生提供与初中生一起工作的机会。这些经验将使大学生能够专注于数学和科学(生物/化学)的教与学，同时也能与大学教职员工和高素质的高中教师密切合作。一旦Noyce Scholars以认证教师的身份毕业，并在高需求的学区受雇，他们将在整个学年和教师生涯的头两年参加每月一系列的教学研讨会。解决高需求学校面临的社会情感需求和挑战将是教学研讨会系列的重点。南卡罗来纳大学北部的这个项目包括与斯帕坦堡地区学校和斯帕坦堡社区学院的合作伙伴关系。该项目的目标包括：1)将同时攻读中学教学学位的STEM专业学生的数量从2018-2019年的8人增加到2022-2023年的12人，在五年内总共支持21名不同的教师候选人；以及2)通过在学位课程早期提供实习机会，提高社区大学生对STEM教育职业的认识。该项目旨在制定课程和课外方案，支持社区大学STEM学生过渡到四年制院校和教学专业。预期的项目成果包括培养诺伊斯学者成为能够满足不同学生需求的数学和科学教师，以及改善职前教师的留任率。该项目旨在通过研讨会会议监测和支持新的中学数学和科学教师，使每一位诺伊斯学者在初次就业六年后仍担任急需的教师职位。该项目有可能为未来旨在培养STEM中等教育教师的倡议提供信息，这些教师既具备STEM内容领域知识，又成功地让初中生和高中生参与到高需求环境中来。这个Track 1：奖学金和津贴项目由罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划(Noyce)提供支持。Noyce计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人员成为有效的K-12 STEM教师，并支持经验丰富、模范的K-12 STEM教师成为高需求学区的STEM硕士教师。它还支持对高需求学区K-12 STEM教师的持久性、保留率和有效性的研究。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。

This project aims to serve the national need for high-quality mathematics and science teachers. To do so, it will support college students as they earn both STEM and secondary education degrees, and prepare them to teach in high need school districts. Specifically, the project will recruit Spartanburg Community College STEM students to become Noyce Scholars. The Noyce Scholars will receive scholarships as they pursue both a STEM major and a secondary education major. Three different internship experiences will be available for college students to work with middle and high school students. These experiences will enable the college students to focus on the teaching and learning of mathematics and science (biology/chemistry), while also working closely with university faculty and highly qualified high school teachers. Once Noyce Scholars graduate as certified teachers and are hired in a high-need school district, they will attend a monthly pedagogical seminar series throughout the school year and summer for the first two years of their teaching careers. Addressing the social-emotional needs and challenges facing high-need schools will be the keystone of the pedagogical seminar series.This project at the University of South Carolina Upstate includes partnerships with Spartanburg District Schools and Spartanburg Community College. The project goals include: 1) to increase the number of STEM majors who also pursue a secondary teaching degree from eight in 2018-2019 to twelve in 2022-2023, supporting a total of 21 different teacher candidates over five years; and 2) to raise awareness of STEM education careers among community college students by providing internship opportunities early in their degree programs. The project intends to develop curricular and extracurricular programming that support the transition of community college STEM students to a four-year institution and also to a teaching major. Intended project outcomes include preparing Noyce Scholars to become mathematics and science teachers who can meet the needs of diverse students, as well as improving the retention of pre-service teachers. The project intends to monitor and support new secondary mathematics and science teachers through seminar meetings so that every Noyce Scholar remains in high-need teaching positions six years after initial job placement. The project has the potential to inform future initiatives that aim to prepare STEM secondary education teachers who are both well qualified in STEM content area knowledge and successful in engaging middle and high school students in high-need environments. This Track 1: Scholarships and Stipends project 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.