Middle Grades Teacher Enhancement: Model Program Development and Evaluation

9454371 Post, Cramer， Lesh摘要初中教师提升：模式项目开发与评价这个为期三年的项目包括三个主要活动：(1)初步发展教师增强计划，以支持发展适合中级学生的一系列数学主题的综合数学、心理学和教学内容知识；(2)与几组教师一起使用教学实验方法试验和改进教师增强计划。这将开发一个可输出的教师增强计划，该计划将实施国家科学基金会资助的中学数学课程项目。这个项目的指导原则是相信教师的知识直接影响他们有效实施任何新教学计划的能力。这个教学改进项目将着重于提高参与者的数学内容背景，他们对儿童如何学习的认识，以及对新的国家科学基金数学课程的深入回顾。本项目的一个重要组成部分是努力研究教师强化过程，以便阐明有效教师强化模式项目的各个维度。这个项目有三个地点（明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯市和新泽西州普林斯顿市），涉及至少285名初中教师，将开发和实施为期一年和两年的教师提升计划，以反映教师在有效教学中综合运用数学、心理学和教学知识的重要性。它还将设计和实施一项评估计划，密切考虑教师在有效实施新课程和新教学方法方面对知识基础的理解。这些程序的修订版将以可导出模块的形式提供给其他有类似教师增强需求的人。在初步实施特定的国家科学基金课程计划后，参与该项目的教师团队将在各自的学校担任领导角色，并帮助在更大范围内和其他学校实施新课程。

9454371 Post, Cramer, Lesh abstract Middle Grades Teacher Enhancement: Model Program Development and Evaluation This three-year project consists of three primary activities: (1) initial development of the teacher enhancement program to support the development of integrated mathematical, psychological, and pedagogical content knowledge for a series of mathematical topics appropriate to the middle grades, (2) trial and refinement of the teacher enhancement program with several groups of teachers using teachine experiment methodology. This will develop an exportable teacher enhancement program that will implement National Science Foundation-sponsored middle grades mathematics curriculum projects. A guiding principle for this project is the belief that what teachers know, directly influences their ability to effectively implement any new program of instruction. This teaching enhancement project will focus on enhancing the participants' mathematical content background, their knowledge of how children learn, and an in-depth review of new NSF mathematics curricula. An important element of this project is its effort to study the teacher enhancement process in order to articulate the dimensions of a model program for effective teacher enhancement. This three site project (Minneapolis, MN, and Princeton, NJ), involving a minimum of 285 middle grades teachers, will develop and implement teacher enhancement programs of one and two year duration that reflect the importance of teachers using integrated mathematical, psychological and pedagogical knowledge in effective teaching. It will also design and conduct an evaluation program that closely considers the teachers understanding a knowledge base in the effective implementation of new curricula and new approaches to instruction. A revised version of these programs will be made available, in exportable modules, to others with similar teacher enhancement needs. After initial implementation of specific NSF curriculum programs, the teams of teachers involved in this project will assume leadership roles in their respective schools and help with the implementation of the new curricula on a larger scale and at other school sites.