Minority Mathematics and Science Education Cooperative: Summer Courses for Elementary Teachers

该项目将开发夏季数学和科学 少数民族小学教师课程 数学和科学教育合作组织（MMSEC）。 这些 课程是MMSEC 3年综合课程的第三阶段 小学数学和科学教师培训 内容和教学方法。 当完成这些 课程将提供师范大学水平的内容课程 在科学和数学上， 学年在职研讨会和夏季活动 培训机构。 这些早期的计划提供了 教师与强大的，创造性的教学方法的基础上， 动手探究学习和情境知识， 需要了解改善不足的性能， 少数民族儿童的课堂成绩。 8德州 这个项目的地点--圣安东尼奥，英尺。沃思，阿灵顿， 达拉斯、纳科多奇斯、博蒙/亚瑟港、爱丁堡和 拉雷多和八所高等教育机构 斯蒂芬奥斯汀州立大学，得克萨斯基督教大学， 德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校，拉马尔大学， 德克萨斯大学泛美分校，拉雷多州立大学， 得克萨斯大学达拉斯分校和塔兰特县初中 学院-沿着着德克萨斯高等教育的支持 教育协调委员会建立强有力的伙伴关系， 改善数学和科学的教学， 主要是少数族裔学校。 据估计，通过 该伙伴关系将使536名教师接受教育， 学生将被间接录取。

This project will develop the Summer Mathematics and Science Courses for Elementary Teachers portion of the Minority Mathematics and Science Education Cooperative (MMSEC). These courses are the third phase of MMSEC's 3-year comprehensive training of elementary teachers in mathematics and science content and teaching methodology. When completed these courses will offer teacher university -level content courses in science and mathematics which will support earlier activities of academic year inservice workshops and summer trainers' institutes. These earlier programs provided teachers with strong, creative teaching methods based on hands-on inquiry learning and contextual knowledge and understanding needed to improve the deficient performance and classroom achievements of minority children. The eight Texas sites for this project --San Antonio, Ft. Worth, Arlington, Dallas, Nacogdoches, Beaumont/Port Arthur, Edinburg, and Laredo-- and the eight institutions of higher education -- Stephen Austin State University, Texas Christian University, University of Texas at San Antonio, Lamar University, University of Texas at Pan American, Laredo State University, University of Texas at Dallas, and Tarrant County Junior College -- along with the support of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board form a powerful partnership to improve the teaching of mathematics and science in predominantly minority schools. It is estimated that through this partnership 536 teachers will be educated and over 10,616 students will be reached indirectly.