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

“课程地图：在线课程，以提高学前数学教学”建议创建和传播一套新的在线教师发展课程，以提高技能和主题的理解，在我们国家的数学课堂所需的。 在提议的两年期间，PI计划创建8个一学分的研究生课程，4个在中学阶段，4个在高中阶段。 理解内容和方法之间的区别可以是人为的，他们打算所有的方法课程将加强重要的新内容，同样，内容课程的介绍将最好的教学实践模型。 因此，将有基于标准的内容和方法在整个courses.This拟议的项目着眼于新的和新兴的技术，开始，以解决这些问题，与一些最突出的数学教育家在该国的团队显着整合。 更具体地说，设计和制作团队包括领先的数学，教育，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的课程，课程实验室提供一个创作系统，WebCT提供课程管理和在线社区建设方面的专业知识，以及推广和主持课程。 他们的目标是尽可能多地接触在职教师。

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.