Standards Mapped Graduate Education and Mentoring

佛罗里达大西洋大学和布劳沃德县学区，全国第五大完全认可的学区之间的一个独特的综合合作伙伴关系，提出了一个研究所的标准映射研究生教育和指导中年级数学教师为5年。 伙伴关系建立在非常成功的工作关系和现有的机构合作基础上。 研究人员，管理人员和教师的敬业团队为新计划的成功奠定了坚实的基础。 该研究所创建并提供了一个独特的课程，研究生水平的中年级教师教育作为FAU部门的MST（科学硕士教学）学位课程的延伸。数学科学。 教师和教师领导人正在开发的多学科课程是基于一个新的概念映射方法，包括技术和科学的整合。 该计划的主要组成部分包括在布劳沃德县为教师提供的一系列特殊的夜间MST课程，密集的暑期学院与学生营，一年两次的周末教育学会议和后续会议，以及在线社区。 该计划显着提高了参与教师的表现和相应的学生的标准化考试成绩。在其持续时间内，该研究所创建了一个教师领导者和导师的分层社区，其中包括超过50%的中学数学教师，超过20%的人获得高级研究生学分。 该提案的智力价值在于其雄心勃勃的目标，即消除大学水平的教师数学和科学准备方法与多样化标准驱动课堂的日常要求之间在内容和教学法方面的许多关键差距。 教师的知识内容的进步是综合和映射到课程标准和他们的课堂实现和驱动的内容和教学法的佛罗里达阳光州标准和全国理事会的数学教师的标准。一个成功的研究所的更广泛的影响是一个可行的模式，为所有科学和数学教师的制度变革和标准映射研究生教育：提高教师在与其课堂相关的班级中的智力成就水平，教师对更高层次的多学科联系和技术丰富的欣赏，以及大学教师对地区标准和教学法的理解和认识。

A uniquely integrated Partnership between Florida Atlantic University and The Broward County School District, the nation's fifth largest fully-accredited school district, proposes an Institute for Standards Mapped Graduate Education and Mentoring for Middle Grade Math Teachers for a 5 year period. The partnership builds upon a highly successful working relationship and existing institutional cooperation. The dedicated team of researchers, administrators, and teachers provides a strong foundation for the success of the new program. The Institute creates and delivers a unique curriculum for graduate-level middle grade teacher education as an extension of the MST (Master in Science in Teaching) degree program of the FAU Dept. of Mathematical Sciences. Ongoing development of the multidisciplinary curriculum by faculty and teacher leaders is based on a new concept mapping approach and includes technology and science integration. Major components of the program include a sequence of special evening MST classes for teachers presented in Broward County, intensive Summer Institutes with Student Camp, Biannual weekend Pedagogy Conferences and Follow-Up Meetings, and an online community. The program significantly raises the performance of participating teachers and correspondingly the standardized test scores of their students.Over its duration the Institute creates a hierarchical community of teacher leaders andmentors including more than 50% of all middle grade math teachers with over 20% receiving advanced graduate credit. The testing ground is nearly 500 middle grade mathematics classrooms in Broward County.The intellectual merit lies in the ambitious goal of the proposal to eliminate the many crucial gaps in content and pedagogy between the university-level approach to a teacher's math and science preparation and the daily requirements of a diverse standards-driven classroom. Intellectual content advancement of the teachers is integrated and mapped to curriculum standards and their classroom realization and driven by the content and pedagogy of the Florida Sunshine State Standards and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards.The broader impacts of a successful Institute are a viable model for institutional change and standards mapped graduate education for all science and math teachers: enhanced levels of teacher intellectual achievement in classes relevant to their classrooms, teacher appreciation of higher level multidisciplinary connections and technology enrichments, and university faculty understanding and awareness of district standards and pedagogy.