Current Noyce Scholars

Noyce meetings:

• (to be scheduled)

Natural Sciences quarterly socials

• February 1, 2008 from 12-2 at Simpson Tower F 213

Western Regional Noyce meeting

January 26:

1) Topics include:

• Pre/early career mentoring
  • Working with students, teachers, school and district personnel as experienced by Noyce scholars now teaching.
• Support for scholars at conference and throughout sites and partner districts
  • Teaching of math/science
• Inquiry lessons for math/science
  • Assessment: formative vs. summative and how it informs future teaching
  • Interviewing skills and tips with mock interviews
  • Transition from student to professional teacher
• Dissemination of professional development by scholars for scholars (at sites)

2) Networking of Programs, Districts, and Scholars:

• Programs
  • Regional: to create local Noyce communities
  • Successes and challenges: sharing strategies to transform challenges into successes.
• Faculty, Scholars and District personnel: regional sessions
  • Creating a broad support community for scholars and programs to enhance "cross-fertilization" of projects, for example to help with recruiting, or to invite all Southern California Noyce Scholars to seminars at multiple project sites.
• Scholars
  • Regional: to create local Noyce communities
  • Similar content areas: for sharing of ideas and best practices

Other Financial aid for Teachers to be:

• MSTI (download MS Word document)
• Teacher Retention Program: (download MS Word document)
• Assumption Program of Loans for Education (access link)

(If you do not have Acrobat Reader, you can download it here)