Funded by the National Science Foundation, the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program “responds to the critical need for K-12 teachers of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) by encouraging talented STEM students and professionals to pursue teaching careers in elementary and secondary schools. The program provides funding to institutions of higher education to provide scholarships, stipends, and programmatic support to recruit and prepare STEM majors and professionals to become K-12 teachers. Scholarship and stipend recipients are required to complete two years of teaching in a high-need school district for each year of support. The program seeks to increase the number of K-12 teachers with strong STEM content knowledge who teach in high-need school districts” (quoted from nsfnoyce.org).

Noyce scholarships at Boston University provide 100% tuition support to the Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) degree program. Noyce scholars also receive specialized mentoring programs, funding to join professional organizations, and supplies for their classrooms. They become members of a vibrant ongoing mathematical community consisting of teachers, engineers, mathematics educators, mathematicians, and graduate students that comes together regularly to do mathematics and discuss the teaching of mathematics. Noyce scholars commit to teaching for two years in a high-need school or district.

The newest Noyce Scholarship program at Boston University is the Preparing Mathematics Teachers to Teach for Justice and Joy in High-Needs Schools. The J-Squared program is designed to support mathematics and other math-related majors in becoming secondary mathematics teachers. This program is currently offering scholarships.

Some older Noyce program previously funded at Boston University include:

• the Enacting Curriculum Through Engaging Discourse (EnaCTED) Project. This program was in collaboration with the College of Arts and Sciences.
• the Bringing Engineers into STEM Teaching (BEST) Program.This program was in collaboration with the College of Engineering.
• the Math for America Boston: Teaching Scholars Program. This program was in collaboration with Math for America Boston.
• the Boston University’s Noyce Scholars Program in Mathematics. This program is no longer accepting applicants.
• the Research and Evaluation: Boston University’s Noyce Scholarship Program is a Noyce research project investigating the effectiveness of BU’s model for preparing secondary mathematics teachers.

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