Portland Area Partnership for the Advancement of Preservice Preparation of Future Teachers of Mathematics and Science

包括社区学院、私立文理学院和公立机构在内的11所高等教育机构将与波特兰大都会地区的当地学校和社区机构合作。 这种伙伴关系的重叠目标有三个方面：1）制定一个连贯和协调的计划，以增加和支持少数民族学生的数学和科学教育，并努力确保成员机构的承诺，以实施该计划; 2）制定一项计划，建立一个中学科学计划，以成功的中学数学计划为蓝本在PSU; 3）制定一个计划，为数学和科学课程的协调方案，建议副数学和科学教师，并包括修改和设计课程的计划，以增加。 另一个目标是开发和传播一个跨校园的课程目录，相关教师，项目，安置关系，部门优势，招生和学生人口统计的描述。 每一项目标都将通过专门负责其中每一项目标的工作队来实现，但需要工作队所有成员的集体努力，他们将通过电子公告板了解事态发展。 三个工作队将分别由指导委员会的两名成员组成的小组主持。 每个工作队将有八名工作队队长，负责协调工作队的活动。 另外22名成员将加入每个工作队，在各自的重点领域制定改革计划。 所有计划将在成员机构能够在本补助期结束前开始实施的范围内完成。

Eleven higher education institutions, including community colleges, private liberal arts colleges, and public institutions, will collaborate with local schools and community agencies in the Portland metropolitan area. The overlapping goals of this partnership are three-fold: 1) develop a coherent and coordinated plan to increase and support minority students in mathematics and science education, and work to secure commitments from member institutions to implement the plan; 2) develop a plan for establishing a Middle School Science Program modeled on the successful Middle School Math Program at PSU; 3) develop a plan for a coordinated program of mathematics and science courses recommended for preservice mathematics and science teachers, and include plans for revision and design of courses to be added. Anogher goal is to develop and disseminate an inter-campus catalogue of course listing, descriptions of relevant faculty, programs, placement affiliations, departmental strengths, enrollments, and student demographics. Each goal will be met through task forces dedicated to each of these individually, but with the collective efforts of all task force members who will be informed of developments through electronic bulletin board. The three task forces will each be chaired by teams of two members from the Steering Committee. Each task force will have eight task force leaders responsible for coordinating their task force's activities. Anb additional 22 members will join each task force to develop plans for change in their respective focus area. All plans will be completed to the extent that member institutions should be able to begin implementation by the end of this grant period.