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Noyce Award Number: nxrPGjpBoLqeH

Grade Level Focus

• Elementary (preparation to teach)
• Graduate-level (initial teacher preparation)
• Graduate-level (preparation of individuals already holding a teaching certificate)
• High School (preparation to teach)
• Middle School (preparation to teach)
• Other
• Post-bac-level (initial teacher preparation)
• Undergraduate-level (initial teacher preparation)

Discipline Focus

• Computer Science
• General
• Mathematics
• Other
• Science
• Technology

Content Focus

• Assessment
• Clinical experiences of teacher candidates (placement diversity, depth, breadth, timing/duration, feedback, and mentor selection/training)
• Clinical Preparation and Partnerships
• Content
• Culture competency of teachers, including culturally relevant pedagogy
• Effectiveness of program graduates
• Non-university partnerships or programs
• Other
• Partnerships between teacher preparation programs and school districts/schools, campus learning centers, STEM education centers
• Pedagogy
• Recruiting an effective and diverse teacher workforce
• Recruiting and Supporting Candidates
• Research methods
• Retention and support of teacher candidates during in preparation
• Retention of STEM teachers in high need school districts
• Retention, Support, and Tracking of Graduates
• Supporting each and every student
• Teacher candidate learning—content
• Teacher candidate learning—pedagogy
• Teacher candidate preparation to enter the field (induction and/or mentoring)

High-Need Population(s) & Locations Served

• A high percentage of individuals from families with incomes below the poverty line
• A high percentage of secondary school teachers not teaching in the content area in which they were trained to teach
• A high teacher turnover rate
• not necessarily high-need population served, as defined by the above federal definition criteria a-c
• Rural
• Urban
• Other

Principal Investigator(s): yxKgervlaws

Organizational Affiliation(s): wgnltFdWkJYS