Mathematics Enhancement for Teachers of American Indians

该项目的主要目标是提高 数学和工程教育 印第安青年。该项目提出了一个示范方案， 一个教师工作坊与一个夏令营同时举行， 初中六年级到八年级的学生。的 学生营将由非国家科学基金资助。 基金会资金，即来自AISES（美国印第安人科学 工程社会）。计划25名数学 教师在1989年和1990年夏季参加讲习班， 科罗拉多矿业学校研讨会强调， 数学和计算机应用及提高 教学技巧研讨会将产生一个 有形产品的形式，数学工具包，这将是 在学校中使用，并帮助转移知识， skills.该工具包将包括文化相关的， 数学上有挑战性的课程计划，操作， 计算机软件技术和评论。教师和 学生将受益于建设性的互动， 在培训期间进行实践练习。资金进行一个 将于1988年夏季进行的原型项目， 已经得到克雷研究公司的资助是 希望参与者能成为大师级教师， 作为讲习班经验的产物， 能够帮助其他地区的教师。通过 这一机制，可能有数百名教师和 成千上万的学生将受到该项目的影响。的 参与者的选择过程是基于合作工作 学院和AISES。后者将宣传 利用现有的邮寄方式为美国印第安人学校举办讲习班 提醒学校和社区居民。标准 AISES用来判断申请的证据包括 需要，承诺在美国印第安人学校教书， 提供行政支助，确保举办讲习班 培训，以及教师采用创新的意愿 数学教学的方法。会有一个 教育选拔委员会由教育工作者组成， 科学和工程方面的专业人士， 从申请人中挑选参与者。重点 在研讨会期间，教师的经验是教学 技术、数学内容和计算机内容。一 发现学习过程是用来邀请 教师更充分地参与学术科目， 它们可能有缺陷。数学的重点是 代数和几何思想的发展 空间可视化和图解模型。 计算机 课程包括识字和编程技术 使用BASIC和Logo语言。 工作人员似乎有很好的学术知识 和教学主题，以及与 目标人群。 相当于NSF要求的61%的金额已经花费 由大学、公立和私立机构共同承担。

The main goals of the project are to improve the quality of mathematics and engineering education available to American Indian youth. The project proposes a model program consisting of a teacher workshop to be held concurrently with a camp for students at the middle school level, grades 6 through 8. The camp for students is to be funded from non National Science foundation funds, namely from AISES (American Indian Science and Engineering Society.) It is planned that 25 mathematics teachers attend workshops during the summers 1989 and 1990 at the Colorado School of Mines. The workshops emphasize mathematics and computer applications and improvement of teaching skills. Arising out of the workshop would be a tangible product in the form of a math kit which would be used in the schools and aid in transfer of knowledge and skills. The kit is to include culturally relevant, mathematically challenging lesson plans, manipulatives, computer software techniques, and reviews. Teachers and students are to benefit from constructive interaction and hands-on exercises during the training period. Funding for a prototype project to be conducted during the summer 1988 has already been funded by Cray Research, Incorporated. It is intended that the participants would become master teachers, as a product of the workshop experiences, who would be capable of helping other teachers in their districts. Through this mechanism, potentially hundreds of teachers and thousands of students should be impacted by the project. The process of participant selection is based on cooperative work by the College and AISES. The latter will advertise the workshop to American Indian schools using an existing mailing list to alert the school and community populations. Criteria used by AISES to judge applications includes evidence of need, commitment to teaching in an American Indian school, administrative support to ensure application of workshop training, and the teacher's willingness to adopt innovative approaches to the teaching of mathematics. There is to be an education selection committee comprised of educators and professionals in science and engineering which will select the participants from among the applicants. The emphasis during the workshop experiences for teachers is on teaching techniques, mathematics content, and computer content. A discovery learning process is to be utilized to invite teachers to more fully engage the academic subjects on which they may have deficiencies. The mathematics emphasis is on the development of algebraic and geometric thought utilizing spatial visualization and diagrammatic models. The computer classes involve literacy as well as programming techniques using the BASIC and Logo languages. The staff seems to have excellent knowledge of the academic and didactical topics as well as experiences in working with the target populations. An amount equivalent to 61% of the NSF request has been cost shared by the university, public and private institutions.