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

PI POSTER ABSTRACTSAs part of our mission to support and serve our neighboringcommunity schools, Occidental’s Education, Mathematics, andChemistry departments developed the OxyMS Teaching ScholarsProject with the goal of increasing the number of highlyqualified math and science teachers in high‐need urban highschools through recruitment and retention of fifth‐year studentsand/or STEM professional committed to teaching. The recruitmentpractices include areas/places where underrepresentedgroups are clustered such as community colleges and minorityprofessional associations.Partners for OxyMS include: Occidental College Education,Chemistry, and Mathematics departments, Eagle Rock HighSchool, Franklin High School, and Semillas del Pueblo ‐ CharterSchool, all in LAUSD, and Partnerships to Uplift Communities(PUC Schools) Charter Schools.Our third Year Noyce Credential Candidates (2011‐2012) includea diverse group of students who will begin their credentialingprograms in September, 2011. They represent a number of cultures,economic levels, and ethnic backgrounds: Alyssa Cuervom,Mathematics; Anna DeNeui, Biology; Gregory Fryan, Psychobiology/Kinesiology;Michael Lopez,Mathematics; SylvanaDeSantis, Geology.Accomplishments for academic year 2011‐2012 include:1. Alegria and Kelly developed a new partnership with Semillasdel Pueblo (Charter School in LAUSD) and with Partnershipsto Uplift Communities (PUC Schools ‐ Charter Schools).2. Students attend the CTA Good Teaching Conference focusingon educational teaching leadership. It was an opportunityfor the Noyce Scholars to network with other educatorsas well as to understand the politics of education in California.3. Our Noyce Scholars facilitated the elementary science sectionof the annual Los Angeles Science Olympiad whichtakes place at Occidental College and involves more than200 K‐12 schools.4. Our Noyce Scholars enrolled in our newly established credentialEDU 541 Math and Science Pedagogies course,taught by Alegria, the OxyMS Teaching Scholars’ PI.5. Our Noyce Scholars networked and interacted with the OccidentalCollege Education Alumni group (ALOED) during areception, a mini‐conference, and a professional development.ALOED is responsible for providing scholarships, positions,and other supports.6. Two Noyce Scholars applied and were accepted to the STARprogram. This is a summer research internship for aspiringscience and mathematics teachers, offered by the CaliforniaState University in partnership with the US Departmentof Energy national research laboratories.83Title: Building Bridges from STEM‐Careers to Teaching Career:An Evolutionary ProcessNSF Noyce Award Number: 0833295Principal Investigator: Ralph MartinEmail: cote@ohio.eduInstitution: Ohio University / SEOCEMSCo‐PI(s): Jeff ConnorPresenter(s): Al Cote, SEOCEMS, Ohio University,cote@ohio,eduThe SouthEast Ohio Center for Excellence in Mathematics andScience, SEOCEMS, has used our Noyce Scholarship program toserve high needs schools and as a springboard to expand OhioUniversity’s commitment to recruit, train, and retain highlyqualified educators for Ohio’s Appalachian School District. SEO‐CEMS’ poster illustrates the expansion of the Robert NoyceScholarship program goal* initiated by the center in 2008 toinclude recruitment of pre‐service teachers directly from OhioAppalachian High Schools and to attract STEM Career Changersfrom across the Nation. Our poster session explains how SEO‐CEMS' Noyce Scholarship program protocol and procedures arethe foundations upon which Ohio University implementedChoose Appalachian Teaching Scholarship program, the SciMathpilot program, and Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship Program.*A goal of the program is to recruit individuals with strong STEMbackgrounds who might otherwise not have considered a career in K‐12 teaching. (http://nsfnoyce.org/)84Title: Pacific STEM Teaching PathwaysNSF Noyce Award Number: 0934599Principal Investigator: Kevin CarrEmail: kcarr@pacificu.eduInstitution: Pacific UniversityCo‐PI(s): Juliet BrosingPresenter(s): Kevin Carr, Pacific University, kcarr@pacificu.eduPacific STEM Teaching Pathways (PSTP) is a collaboration amongthe Pacific University Division of Natural Sciences, the College ofEducation, and several local Oregon high‐needs K‐12 school districts.Its purpose is to increase the number of exemplary K‐12STEM teachers by targeting two specific candidate pools: PacificUniversity undergraduate STEM majors and career‐changingSTEM professionals. Individuals with no secondary school experience,but interested in making teaching a career are stronglyurged to complete a 30‐hour volunteer internship with a mentorteacher. PSTP is providing up to two years of Noyce Scholarshipsupport for 35 STEM teaching candidates, who are obligated fortwo years of service in a high needs school district for each yearof support received. Teachers graduate with a Master of Arts inTeaching and are supported with an induction program for three2012 NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program ConferenceA34