Improving Middle-Level Mathematics Teaching and Learning: A Statewide Initiative

这个为期三年的项目将开发一套协调的六门课程，专门为教师在5-8年级教数学做准备。 这些课程将构成硕士学位课程的核心，也可以单独进行认证。 将对现有的两个课程进行修改。 该项目是一项合作努力，涉及大学数学家、统计学家、数学教育工作者、数学教学优秀总统奖获得者和其他模范中级教师。 这些目标包括：增加中级教师的概念内容知识，提供示范材料并发展使用这些材料的技能，使教师做好担任导师的准备，与国家合作进行认证，加强支持准备和专业发展的基础设施，加强中级教师和大学教师的教学实践，产生关于协作课程和方案开发的知识，在为在职教师制定和实施基于研究和标准的方案方面取得研究成果，并促进对成人教育教学战略和远程教育系统的理解，这些战略和系统在服务不足的农村地区（由于学校规模很小，学校之间距离很远）可能是有效的。 该项目解决了64%的数学教师没有国家数学证书的事实。

The three-year project will develop a coordinated set of six courses designed specially to prepare teachers to teach mathematics in the middle grades, level 5-8. The courses will form the core of a Master's Degree program or can be taken separately for certification. Two existing courses will be modified. The project is a collaborative effort involving university mathematicians, statisticians, mathematics educators, Presidential Awardees for Excellence in Mathematics Teaching and other exemplary middle-level teachers. The objectives include: increase the conceptual content knowledge of middle-level teachers, provide exposure to exemplary materials and develop skills to use them, prepare teachers to act as mentors, work with the state on certification, strengthen infrastructure that supports preparation and professional development, enhance teaching practices of middle-level teachers and college faculty, produce knowledge about collaborative course and program development, produce research results on developing and implementing a research-based and standards-based program for in-service teachers, and contribute to the understanding of adult education teaching strategies and distance delivery systems that can be effective in under-served rural areas (due to very small schools and great distances between them). This project addresses the fact that sixty-four percent of the teachers teaching mathematics do not have a state credential in mathematics.