The Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program

NSF
NSF
  • Home
  • The Program
    • NSF Noyce Program Directors
    • NSF Noyce Program Solicitation
    • Consider Becoming an NSF Noyce Principal Investigator
    • Become a Noyce Scholar or Teacher Leader
      • Noyce Scholar Profiles
      • Noyce Alumni Profiles
    • Voices From the Field Videos
  • Project Locator
    • Select from Map
    • Advanced Search
    • Submit Information
  • In the News
    • In the News
  • Meetings
    • 2022 Noyce Summit
    • 2021 Noyce Summer Events
    • 2020 Virtual Noyce Summit
    • Archived Noyce Summit Materials
    • Noyce Regional Meetings
  • Resources
    • Noyce Track 4 Research Book
    • Proposal Preparation Toolkit
    • Noyce Project Videos
    • Noyce Summit Abstract Catalogs
    • Reports
    • Toolkits
    • ARISE Research Community
  • Contact

Efficacy of Summer Teaching Internship to Recruit Students into the Teaching Profession

  • Year 2022
  • NSF Noyce Award # 1851631
  • First Name Beverly
  • Last Name Smith
  • Discipline Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics
  • Co-PI(s)

    Mohammad Moin Uddin & Scott Kirkby

  • Presenters

    Mohammad Moin Uddin, East Tennessee State University

Need

There is a critical shortage of STEM teachers in high-need fields, especially in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics, in the southern Appalachian region. This Noyce Track 1 Teacher Recruiting program at East Tennessee State University was designed to alleviate this need.

Goals

Is the summer internship program an effective method to recruit STEM students into a teaching career?

Approach

The 5-week long internship program is administered in partnership with local nonprofit educational organizations, namely the Gray Fossil Site, the Hands- On Museum, the Langston Center, the Upward Bound Program at ETSU, and the ETSU Renaissance Camp on the ETSU campus. We had a small intern program the first summer of this grant (summer 2019). Because of the pandemic we did not run an internship program during the summer of 2020, and only a small program in the summer of 2021. Thus far seven students completed Noyce internships.

Outcomes

At both the beginning and the end of the summer, we ask the interns to take the questionnaire about attitudes concerning teaching produced by the APS (Marder, Brown, & Plisch, 2017). We look for a difference in the responses before vs. after the internship. The most important finding of the survey was that students’ interest to be a middle or high school teacher increases five-fold after completing the internship. One former Noyce intern completed the MAT program and is currently teaching Chemistry in a high-need school, and one is currently enrolled in the MAT program.

Broader Impacts

We anticipate that the ETSU Noyce program will create a group of teachers who will be able to inspire future generations of STEM professionals in Northeast Tennessee region.

What’s New

  • 2022 Noyce Summit
  • Noyce by the Numbers: 20 Years of Noyce
  • Proposal Preparation Webinars
  • Frequently Asked Questions for the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program
  • Become a Noyce Scholar or Teacher Leader
  • Consider Becoming an NSF Noyce Principal Investigator
  • Noyce Alumni: Where Are They Now?

Check out our ARISE website for research & opportunities!

Checking In

NSF

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant Numbers DUE-2041597 and DUE-1548986. Any opinions, findings, interpretations, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of its authors and do not represent the views of the AAAS Board of Directors, the Council of AAAS, AAAS’ membership or the National Science Foundation.

AAAS

The World's Largest General Scientific Society

  • About Noyce Program
  • AAAS ISEED
  • Subscribe to ARISE
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
© 2023 American Association for the Advancement of Science