Limestone University Noyce Master Teaching Fellowship Program

该项目旨在通过提供一个沉浸式的6年变革计划，包括领导力，科学，技术，工程，艺术和数学（STEAM），基于项目的学习（PBL）课程和专业学习经验，满足南卡罗来纳州STEM相关教学领域K-12教师领导者的国家需求。该项目采用小规模队列模型，以便硕士教学研究员（MTF）更有针对性地关注，即，教师领导人，并提供地区的灵活性和支持，考虑到奖学金所需的时间分配。该计划将产生二十（20）干教师领导人。该计划招募经验丰富和模范K-12 STEM教师根据诺伊斯的定义谁已经完成了最低限度的本科学位，并在合作伙伴当地教育机构（LEAs）在其领域的许可和教学。这个项目在石灰岩大学（LU），少数民族服务机构（MSI），包括与两个非营利组织的合作伙伴关系：分支教育工作者多样性联盟（BranchED）和南卡罗来纳州的教育工作者招聘和保留促进中心&（CERA）。该项目将影响学生在两个高需求学区在南卡罗来纳州（切罗基学区1和斯帕坦堡学区3）通过保留和支持高效的标题1干教师领导。该项目旨在促进有效实践的知识，这些实践有可能影响高需求K-12学校STEM教师领导者的发展，支持和保留。 培养STEM教师领导者的计划有五个目标：（1）培养领导能力（2）设计和评估公平的，数据知情的课程和教学（3）导师和领导初级教育工作者（4）宣传技能发展（5）提高对K-12学生学习的影响。将对该项目在南卡罗来纳州高需求执法机构中招募、准备和保留MTF的成功情况进行监测和评估。还将收集纵向数据，以提供有关有助于有效STEM教师发展的长期计划功能的信息。这个轨道3：硕士教学奖学金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。

The project aims to serve the national need of K-12 teacher leaders in STEM-related teaching fields in South Carolina by providing an immersive 6-year transformative program that includes leadership, science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM), and Project-Based Learning (PBL) coursework and professional learning experiences with partnership organizations. The project utilizes a small size cohort model to allow for more targeted attention of the Master Teaching Fellows (MTFs), i.e., teacher leaders, and to offer districts flexibility and support given the time allocations required for the fellowship. The program will produce twenty (20) STEM Teacher Leaders. The program plans to recruit experienced and exemplary K-12 STEM teachers under the Noyce definition who have completed a minimum of an undergraduate degree and are licensed and teaching in their field at partner local educational agencies (LEAs).This project at Limestone University (LU), a Minority Serving Institution (MSI), includes partnerships with two non-profit organizations: Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity (BranchED) and South Carolina’s Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention & Advancement (CERRA). The project will impact students in two high-need school districts in South Carolina (Cherokee School District 1 and Spartanburg Schools District 3) by retaining and supporting highly effective Title 1 STEM teacher leaders. The project aims to advance knowledge on effective practices that have the potential to impact the development, support, and retention of STEM teacher leaders in high-need K-12 schools. The plan for developing STEM teacher leaders is organized under five goals: (1) Build Capacity to Lead (2) Design and Evaluate Equitable, Data-informed Curriculum and Instruction (3) Mentor and Lead Beginning Educators (4) Advocacy Skill Development (5) Improve Impact on K-12 Student Learning. The project will be monitored and evaluated with respect to its success in recruiting, preparing, and retaining MTFs in high need LEAs in South Carolina. Longitudinal data will also be collected to provide information concerning the long-term program features that contribute to effective STEM teacher development. This Track 3: Master Teaching Fellowships 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 effectiveness and retention 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.