Professional Development to Promote Discovery and Cooperative Learning

这项研究工作旨在研究和测试在职教师的材料和计划，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侧重于高中几何，并解决新的NCTM标准，其议程基于通过学生合作学习实现数学的发现方法。该建议描述了一个在职模式，该模式解决了将新的教学方向应用于现有课堂、全校和地区结构的问题；用学生和教师参与者的表现来评估在职结果；建立一种机制，通过这种机制，服务的传播可以在经济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.