Preparing Highly Effective STEM Teachers for Rural Schools

该项目旨在满足国家培养高效STEM教师在农村社区服务的需求。该项目将积极招募来自农村社区的学生进入并留在大学，目标是成为合格的中学STEM教师，为在农村学校教学做好准备。通过这种方式，该项目将有助于为农村学校提供合格的STEM教师，并提高学校为学生提供更广泛的STEM课程的能力。该计划将招募高中，社区学院和大学生完成学士学位科学学位，并获得教学认证。 它将为这些诺伊斯学者提供心理健康，正念和理解贫困的早期教学经验和培训。 因此，该项目旨在更好地准备诺伊斯学者在高贫困，高需求和农村学校任教。东北爱荷华州社区学院的这个项目包括与16个高需求学区（阿拉马基，中央，克莱顿岭，东布坎南，东阿拉马基，埃奇伍德-科尔斯堡，MFL-MarMac，北费耶特谷，Oelwein，Postville，南温尼希克，Starmont，萨姆纳-弗雷德里克斯堡，的黎波里，土耳其谷和中西部）的合作伙伴关系，目标是建立合格STEM教师的招聘渠道。 它打算培养15名诺伊斯学者，在高需求的学校或学区，特别是在高度贫困的农村地区任教。 准备强调通过正念和心理健康培训，技术和远程学习的文化能力。 为了提高新教师的留用率，该项目将提供更好的入职支助。 该项目旨在通过调查正念和心理健康培训对培养有效的STEM教育工作者在高度贫困和农村地区教学的影响，产生关于有效教师准备的新知识。该项目还将寻求确定哪些具体活动可以为在农村地区教授STEM科目做好更好的准备。这个轨道1：奖学金和津贴项目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 of preparing highly effective STEM teachers to serve in rural communities. The project will actively recruit students from rural communities to enter and stay in college with the goal of becoming certified secondary STEM teachers who are prepared for teaching in rural schools. In this way, the project will help to provide rural schools with a pool of qualified STEM teachers and to improve the schools’ ability to offer their students a broader range of STEM courses. The program will recruit high school, community college, and college students to complete a baccalaureate science degree and earn teaching certification. It will provide these Noyce Scholars with early teaching experiences and training in mental health, mindfulness, and understanding poverty. As a result, the project intends to better prepare the Noyce Scholars to teach in high-poverty, high-need, and rural schools. This project at Northeast Iowa Community College includes partnerships with sixteen high-need school districts (Allamakee, Central, Clayton Ridge, East Buchanan, Eastern Allamakee, Edgewood-Colesburg, MFL-MarMac, North Fayette Valley, Oelwein, Postville, South Winneshiek, Starmont, Sumner-Fredericksburg, Tripoli, Turkey Valley, and West Central), with the goal of establishing a recruitment pipeline of qualified STEM teachers. It intends to prepare 15 Noyce Scholars to teach in high-need schools or school districts, particularly in high-poverty rural areas. The preparation emphasizes cultural competency through mindfulness and mental health training, technology, and distance learning. To improve new teacher retention, the project will provide enhanced induction support. The project aims to generate new knowledge about effective teacher preparation by investigating the impacts of mindfulness and mental health training on preparing effective STEM educators to teach in high-poverty and rural areas. The project will also seek to determine which specific activities result in better preparation to teach STEM subjects in rural districts. 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 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.