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ONEONTA, N.Y. -- The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant
of $900,000 to the SUNY College at Oneonta to support the SUNY Oneonta Noyce
Scholars Program, which will help prepare students for careers as highly
qualified high school science teachers in high-need school districts.
Dr. Paul Bischoff of
the SUNY Oneonta
Secondary Education Department will coordinate the grant with Dr.
John Schaumloffel
of the Chemistry &
Biochemistry Department, Drs.
James Ebert and
Todd Ellis of the
Earth Sciences Department, and Dr.
Paul
French of the
Physics & Astronomy Department.
The SUNY Oneonta Noyce Scholars Program will recruit students as incoming
freshmen or sophomores who are majoring in the sciences and offer them
intensive training beyond the College's Adolescence Education majors in
science. In return for participating in the program and meeting its high
academic standards, the students will receive scholarships valued at over
$13,000 annually to cover the costs of tuition, fees, and room and board.
The goal of the program is to graduate 24 highly qualified new science
teachers by the end of the five-year grant period. The participating faculty
members have developed an enhanced curriculum that focuses on experiential
learning and observation in high-need rural and urban school districts and
provides experiences in science education outside the traditional classroom.
The students will graduate with degrees in both Adolescence Education and
their chosen science discipline of Biology, Earth Sciences, Chemistry, or
Physics.
During their time at SUNY Oneonta, the Noyce Scholars will serve in both
high-need urban and rural districts through summer experiences in New York
City schools and academic-year and summer experiences in rural schools in
central New York. They will also undertake specialized coursework and gain
experience with informal science education at the SUNY Oneonta Science
Discovery Center and College Observatory, nationally recognized science
museums, and other venues. The College will provide on-campus pre-service
and post-graduation in-service support for the Noyce Scholars to help guide
them through their first years of teaching.
As part of the grant, the SUNY Oneonta faculty members and Noyce Scholars
will collaborate with a number of local schools.
More information about the National Science Foundation grant and the SUNY
Oneonta Noyce Scholars program is available from Dr. Bischoff at (607)
436-2613.
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