Tribal College Math-Science Teaching Project (TC-MAST Project)

蒙大拿州所有七所部落学院(TCS)与蒙大拿大学(UM)和蒙大拿州立大学(MSU)合作，提议开展一项部落学院教师增强计划，该计划包括暑期研讨会和TC教师常驻条款(TIR)，TC教师将在UM或MSU驻校一学期或一学年。讲习班的主要目的是探讨数学与科学相结合、探究式学习、实践/体验式学习、研究与课程相结合以及采用新技术等领域的新教学方法。TIR将提供更多的专业发展机会。在TIR期间，TC的个别教职员工可以选修一些课程，使他们能够扩展和丰富课程内容或获得高级学位，与大学同事进行研究，与大学同事共同教授课程，并参与教育改革努力。TIR的另一个重要好处是，部落学院的教职员工将通过与大学教员的合作，在制定更有利于在大学系统中教育美洲原住民的战略方面发挥领导作用。每年将有20名TC数学科学教员和4名大学教员参加研讨会。讲习班将在1998年和1999年夏季举行。对居留条款方案的参与将是有选择性的，并基于提交给指导委员会的分项提案的质量。TC和大学教职员工之间合作的发展和加强将使蒙大拿州的高等教育长期受益。特别是，部落学院的教职员工将丰富他们的知识，同时用在美洲原住民的科学和数学教育中被证明成功的方法来丰富大学系统。

A collaboration of all seven of Montana's tribal colleges (TCs), in partnership with the University of Montana (UM) and Montana State University (MSU), proposes to carry out a tribal college faculty enhancement program consisting of summer workshops and TC faculty terms-in-residence (TIR), where TC faculty will spend a term or academic year in residence at either UM or MSU. The main objective of the workshops is to explore new teaching methodologies in areas such as math-science integration, inquiry-based learning, practical/experiential learning, integration of research and coursework, and incorporation of new technologies. The TIR will provide additional opportunities for professional development. During a TIR, individual TC faculty members may take courses that will enable them to expand and enrich course offerings or lead to an advanced degree, conduct research with university colleagues, co-teach courses with university colleagues, and participate in educational reform efforts. An important additional benefit to the TIR is that tribal college faculty, through collaborations with university faculty, will provide leadership in developing strategies that are more conducive to the education of Native Americans in the university system. Participation in the workshops will be open to 20 TC math-science faculty as well as four university faculty per year. Workshops will take place during the summers of 1998 and 1999. Participation in the terms-in-residence program will be selective and based on the quality of sub-proposals submitted to the steering committee. The development and reinforcement of collaboration between TC and university faculty will be of long-term benefit to higher education across Montana. In particular, tribal college faculty will enrich their knowledge while simultaneously enriching the university system with methods that have proven to be successful in the education of Native Americans in science and math.