2012 Noyce Conference Program - The Robert Noyce Scholarship ...

ABOUTNational Science Foundation (NSF) RobertNoyce Teacher Scholarship ProgramThe Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, first authorizedunder the National Science Foundation Authorization Actof 2002 (P.L. 107‐368) and reauthorized in 2007 under theAmerica COMPETES Act (P.L. 110‐69) and the America COM‐PETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 responds to the criticalneed for K‐12 teachers of science, technology, engineering,and mathematics (STEM) by encouraging talented STEM studentsand professionals to pursue teaching careers in elementaryand secondary schools.The program provides funding to institutions of higher educationto provide scholarships, stipends, and programmaticsupport to recruit and prepare STEM majors and professionalsto become K‐12 teachers. Scholarship and stipend recipientsare required to complete two years of teaching in a highneedschool district for each year of support. The programseeks to increase the number of K‐12 teachers with strongSTEM content knowledge who teach in high‐need schooldistricts.In addition, the program supports the recruitment and developmentof NSF Teaching Fellows, STEM professionals whocomplete Master’s degrees leading to teacher certificationand receive salary supplements while fulfilling a 4‐year teachingrequirement. The program also supports the developmentof NSF Master Teaching Fellows by providing professionaldevelopment and salary supplements while they areteaching for five years in a high need school district. A goal ofthe program is to recruit individuals with strong STEM backgroundswho might otherwise not have considered a careerin K‐12 teaching.The American Association for the Advancement of Science(AAAS) is working with the NSF Robert Noyce Teacher ScholarshipProgram to identify and disseminate informationabout effective practices and strategies for attracting, selecting,and preparing new K‐12 STEM teachers and retainingthem in the STEM teacher workforce. Project componentsinclude:• Co‐sponsoring and implementing the 2009, 2010, 2011,and 2012 NSF Robert Noyce Teacher ScholarshipProgram annual conferences.• Producing a general publication that highlights theaccomplishments of the NSF Noyce Teacher ScholarshipProgram.• Developing and maintaining an NSF Noyce TeacherScholarship Program Web site, http://nsfnoyce.org.• Organizing proposal preparation workshops.American Association for the Advancement ofScience (AAAS)The American Association for the Advancement of Science(AAAS) is the world’s largest general scientific society, andpublisher of the journal, Science (www.sciencemag.org) aswell as Science Translational Medicine(www.sciencetranslationalmedicine.org) and ScienceSignaling (www.sciencesignaling.org).The non‐profit AAAS (www.aaas.org) is open to all and fulfillsits mission to “advance science and serve society” throughinitiatives in science policy; international programs; scienceeducation; and more. AAAS is a global organization, withoffices in Washington, D.C. and Cambridge, U.K., and awardwinningnews correspondents reporting from an array ofcountries.For the latest research news, log onto EurekAlert!,www.eurekalert.org, the premier science‐news Web site, aService of AAAS. For education and career resources visitthe AAAS website at http://www.aaas.org/.AAAS was founded in 1848, and includes some 261 affiliatedsocieties and academies of science, serving 10 millionindividuals. Science has the largest paid circulation of anypeer‐reviewed general science journal in the world, with anestimated total readership of 1 million.62012 NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program Conference