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Welcome to the
Teacher Education Collaboration for High-Need Schools - New Jersey
(TECHS-NJ)
website
a National Science Foundation funded project
Project Description:
The TECHS-NJ program will recruit, prepare, certify and help retain a new cohort of young teachers, who, upon graduation, will hold baccalaureate degrees in Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Environmental Geology, Environmental Science, Geology, Mathematics, Physics, Zoology or other approved STEM disciplines, with NJ teacher certification and a job in a high-need school district.
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Rutgers-Newark (RN), Newark Museum (NM) and Newark Public Schools (NPS) are bringing together existing STEM undergraduate programs, an urban education teacher certification program, high quality professional development and service activities that leverage other NSF supported programs, community building activities and support services (both while students are undergraduates and while in the early years of teaching).
NJIT, RN and NPS serve populations which include many from underrepresented groups. Thus, we expect many of our Noyce Scholars to come from such groups and serve as role models to students from underrepresented groups in high-need schools for many years.
Our program's main components are:
*Recruitment of high achieving NJIT and Rutgers-Newark undergraduates and graduate students and seniors in NPS high schools.
*Academic Preparation – a full academic degree in a STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) discipline.
*Teacher Preparation – Students will be trained through Rutgers-Newark's Department of Urban Education which is authorized to provide NJ teacher certification. They will participate in year-long, grant supported, inquiry-driven professional development programs (through Rutgers-Newark and the Newark Museum and will mentor students following them in TECHS-NJ. Students will be able to borrow laptop computers and projectors for student teaching. TECHS-NJ students will have a “toolbox” of supplies to take with them when they begin teaching.
*Resources / Community building – TECHS-NJ students will have the resources of Rutgers-Newark’s and NJIT’s many support services and participate in monthly community building meetings/activities. Students will have both academic and teacher education advisors as well as advisement through TECHS-NJ.
*Training Stipends – TECHS-NJ students will receive $9600 for each year they are in the program.
*Jobs/Retention – Upon graduation, qualified TECHS-NJ students will receive job offers from the Newark Public Schools, including all the benefits of the Newark Public School’s Banneker center retention programs and may borrow from the Newark Museum’s educational loan collection.
*Evaluation – Survey instruments will be developed to track TECHS-NJ scholar attitudes toward teaching during their participation in TECHS-NJ and in their first years of teaching, as well as to study differences in attitudes toward teaching of TECHS-NJ scholars, other studying to be teachers and other undergraduates studying in STEM fields.
*Institutionalization – NJIT, Rutgers-Newark, the Newark Museum and the Newark Public Schools are committed to efforts to develop and continue this pipeline of students being trained for service in high-need schools.
For further information please, contact Joya Clark.
| Modified: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 |
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