$1.2 million grant to prepare diverse group of STEM teachers
A five-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program will bring together faculty from the UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education, the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and the College of Engineering to recruit and prepare a diverse group of secondary mathematics and science educators to teach in northeast Georgia schools.
Guided by an ongoing STEM collaboration, the goal of the Georgia Educators in Mathematics and Science project is to prepare 34 teachers over five years in STEM fields ranging from biology, chemistry and physics to mathematics and engineering. Students in the program will receive $18,000 to cover room and board and the cost of tuition while pursuing their master’s degree in teaching.
“Once UGA STEM students are in the Noyce program and become scholars, we really want to ensure their instructional practices are strengthened and then sustained after graduation,” said Julie Luft, Athletic Association Professor of Mathematics and Science Education and principal investigator of the project. “In the program, we will emphasize working in diverse settings and enacting the state mathematics and science standards.”