Professional Development to Promote Discovery and Cooperative Learning

这项研究旨在研究和测试教师在职材料和计划，这些材料和计划将促进和支持中学数学教学的变革和创新。这个第一阶段的项目将以高中几何为重点，并以新的NCTM标准为基础，以通过学生合作学习实现的数学发现方法为基础。该提案描述了一种在职模式，该模式解决了将新的教学指导应用于现有的课堂、学校和学区结构的问题；通过衡量学生和教师参与者的表现来评估在职结果；并建立了一种机制，通过这种机制，在职的传播可以在财务上和动机上自我延续。

This research effort is designed to research and test teacher inservice materials and programs that will promote and support change and innovation in the teaching of mathematics in secondary schools. This Phase I project will focus on high school geometry, and address the new NCTM Standards with an agenda based on a discovery approach to mathematics realized through cooperative student learning. The proposal describes an inservice model which addresses the issues of applying new pedagogical directions to existing classroom, schoolwide, and district structures; assessing inservice results with metrics of both student and teacher-participant performance; and establishing a mechanism by which the inservice's dissemination can financially and motivationally self-perpetuation process.