Mathematics Improvement Initiative

这是一个针对小学和初中的三年计划 密西西比东北部阿巴拉契亚六个县的学校教师。 该项目涉及管理员、主管、协调员和 代表14个农村学区的52所学校的教师。的 管理人员接受相当于三整天的培训， 和指导，让他们熟悉的信任，范围， 项目的期望。其中一些活动的资金来自 外部来源。在第一个夏天， 在超过100小时的研讨会经验，使他们能够准备 他们为各自地区的教师举办的讲习班。与会者 建立数学资源中心和实验室， 他们将在52所小学和初中进行 在职会议，扩大讲习班，以其他教师在他们的 学校此外，还有一个涉及父母以及 社区的商业和工业领袖。第二和第三 该项目的夏季重点是培养大师级教师， 在目标学校担任顾问人员。的 课程的数学内容是技能培养和 解决问题，并涵盖了学校计划中的主要主题领域。 例如，有一些课程涉及算术主题， 几何和代数预科教学部分包括以下课程： 诊断、补救和材料开发方法。后续行动 在每一个中间年的活动有工作人员帮助 领导和名师主持员工发展会议 其他地区的教师。这些活动发生在 主要是在资源中心。

This is a three year project aimed at the elementary and junior high school teachers in six Appalachian counties of northeast Mississippi. The project involves administrators, supervisors, coordinators, and teachers from 52 schools representing 14 rural school districts. The administrators receive the equivalent of three full days of orientation and instruction to give them familiarity with the trust, scope, and expectations of the project. Some of these activities are funded from external sources. During the first summer the supervisors are involved in over 100 hours of workshop experiences to enable them to prepare their own workshops for teachers in their districts. The participants are to establish a mathematics resource center and laboratory in each of the 52 elementary and junior high schools in which they will conduct inservice sessions that extend the workshop to other teachers at their schools. Also, there is a component involving parents as well as business and industrial leaders in the communities. The second and third summers of the project place emphasis on developing master teachers who are to serve as resource personnel at the targeted schools. The mathematics content of the courses is a blend between skill building and problem solving and covers the main topic areas in the school program. There are, for example, sessions underlying arithmetic topics as well as geometry and pre-algebra. The pedagogical component includes sessions on diagnosis, remediation, and methods of materials development. Follow-up activities during each of the intermediate years have the staff helping the leaders and master teachers conducting staff development sessions for other teachers in the districts. These activities take place primarily in the resource centers.