The Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program offers academic and financial support for students pursuing secondary teaching certificates in STEM fields. In return, students commit to teaching in high-need K-12 school districts. The Noyce Program has had uneven results in increasing the number of teachers in high need schools. Large scale studies of its impact indicate […]
The Community of Practice among Mathematics and Mathematics Education Members at an Urban Minority Serving Institute in the U.S.
Using narrative inquiry as a research method, four mathematics and mathematics education faculty members explored the integration of theoretical perspectives into their personal narratives as they developed a community of practice. Initially their focus was strictly on improving their students’ mathematical knowledge. As their community of practice matured, however, their work took on a larger […]
Service Learning Within a Secondary Math and Science Teacher Education Program: Preservice MAT Teachers’ Perspectives
Previous literature suggests that service learning may offer new opportunities to support the development of preservice science and math teachers, but few studies examine service learning beyond isolated teaching events. In this qualitative study, we attempt to improve upon this literature by following Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) students’ views of their service learning […]
Recruiting, Preparing, and Retaining High Quality Secondary Mathematics and Science Teachers for Urban Schools: The Cal Teach Experimental Program
Recruiting, preparing, and retaining high quality secondary mathematics and science teachers are three of the most critical problems in our nation’s urban schools that serve a vast majority of children from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds (Council on Science and Technology and the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning, 2007; EdSource, 2008; Rumberger, […]
Recruiting Science Majors into Secondary Science Teaching: Paid Internships in Informal Science Settings
Despite the importance of recruiting highly qualified individuals into the science teaching profession, little is known about the effectiveness of particular recruitment strategies. Over 3 years, 34 college science majors and undecided students were recruited into paid internships in informal science settings to consider secondary science teaching as a career. Analysis of interns’ subsequent career […]
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