Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education: CourseMap: On-line Courses to Enhance Precollege Mathematics Teaching

“课程地图：加强大学前数学教学的在线课程”项目建议创建和传播一套新的在线教师发展课程，以增强我国数学课堂所需的技能和对主题的理解。在拟议的两年期间，私人投资促进机构计划开设8门1学分的研究生课程，其中4门是初中课程，4门是高中课程。认识到内容和方法之间的区别可能是人为的，他们打算所有方法课程都将加强重要的新内容，同样，内容课程的呈现将成为最佳教学实践的典范。因此，基于标准的内容和方法将在整个课程中得到很大程度的整合。这个拟议的项目着眼于新的和新兴的技术，以开始解决这些问题，由国内一些最著名的数学教育工作者组成的团队。更具体地说，设计和制作团队包括顶尖的数学、教育工作者、技术专家和教学视频专家。此外，哥伦比亚师范学院将提供研究生学分课程，课程实验室提供创作系统，WebCT提供课程管理和在线社区建设方面的专业知识，以及推广和主办课程。他们的目标是接触到尽可能多的在职教师受众。

The project "CourseMap: On-line Course to Enhance Precollege Mathematics Teaching" proposes to create and disseminate a new set of on-line teacher development courses to enhance the skills and subject-matter understanding needed in our nation's mathematics classrooms. Over the proposal two-year period the PIs plan to create 8 one-credit-hour graduate courses, four at the middle school level and four at the high school level. Understanding that the distinction between content and methods can be artifical, they intend that all methods courses will reinforce important new content, and similarly, the presentation of content courses will model best pedagogical pratice. Consequently, there will be significant integration of the standards-based content and methodologies across the courses.This proposed project looks at new and emerging technologies to begin to address these concerns, with a team of some of the most prominent mathematics educators in the country. More specifically, the design and production teams comprise leading mathematics, educators, technology specialists and instructional video specialists.Moreover, Teachers College Columbia will offer the courses for graduate credit, with Lesson Labs to provide an authoring system, and with WebCT to provide expertise in course management and on-line community building, as well as to promote and host the courses. Their goal is to reach the largest possible in-service teacher audience.