RETA: Distributed Leadership for Middle School Mathematics Education: Content Area Leadership Expertise in Practice

RETA：中学数学教育的分布式领导力：内容领域领导力专业知识的实践

• 批准号: 0412510
• 负责人: James Spillane
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0412510&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RETA; Distributed; Leadership; Middle; Mathematics

The investigators propose a mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative)study of distributed content leadership in middle school mathematics.There is little research on what content, pedagogical, and diagnosticknowledge leaders must have to effectively assist teachers inimplementing demands of rigorous mathematics instruction and studentlearning. This research builds on prior research of the investigatorswho examined distributed leadership at the elementary school level.However, this research will go much deeper into defining andunderstanding the leaders and the roles they play. Much of the project is devoted to developing instruments to measuremathematics content leadership as distributed in middle schools.Specifically, the team proposes to develop, test, and validatemeasurement instruments of content leadership practice and knowledge andto examine how content leadership affects how teachers teach. They alsopropose to test whether content leadership can be learned. All of thiswork will be conducted in the context of a Mathematics and SciencePartnership (MSP) Teacher Institute for the 21sth Century site. Intellectual Merit: The proposed program of work fills a major gap in the knowledge base bygenerating new information and evidence about content leadershipknowledge and practices as they relate to improvement in mathematicseducation. The senior research team brings together experienced scholarsand teachers from mathematics, mathematics education, teacher learning,leadership, policy, and statistics. The research is divided into two main parts. The first will focus onthe development, piloting, and validation of instrumentation foridentifying and documenting content area leadership practice for middleschool mathematics. The second part will study the nature (i.e., thewhat, the how and the why) of content area leadership practice formiddle school mathematics and its relations to (a) leadershipdevelopment and (b) classroom teachers and teaching. Broader Impact: This work may have significant broad impact by generating usableknowledge and methodological tools that will be of considerable interestto MSPs and Institute Partnerships and to the school systems around thenation. By focusing on content leadership in urban schools, this workwill contribute to improving mathematics education for urban youth, whohave historically been underserved by many school systems.

调查者提出了一个混合的方法（定量和定性）研究分布式内容领导在中学mathematics.There是什么内容，教学和diagnosticknowledge领导者必须有有效地协助教师在实施严格的数学教学和studentlearning的要求很少的研究。 本研究建立在研究者们在小学阶段对分布式领导的研究基础之上，然而，本研究将更深入地定义和理解领导者及其所扮演的角色。该项目的大部分内容是致力于开发工具来测量中学中分布的数学内容领导力。具体来说，该团队建议开发，测试和验证内容领导力实践和知识的测量工具，并研究内容领导力如何影响教师的教学方式。 他们还建议测试内容领导力是否可以学习。 所有这些工作都将在数学和科学伙伴关系（MSP）21世纪教师研究所网站的背景下进行。智力优势：拟议的工作计划填补了知识库的一个主要空白，通过产生新的信息和证据的内容领导知识和做法，因为它们涉及到改进实践教育.高级研究团队汇集了来自数学，数学教育，教师学习，领导力，政策和统计的经验丰富的专家和教师。 本研究分为两个主要部分。 第一个将侧重于开发，试点和验证的仪器识别和记录内容领域的领导实践中学数学。 第二部分将研究性质（即，内容领域领导实践的内容是什么、如何和为什么）对中学数学及其与（a）领导力发展和（B）课堂教师和教学的关系。更广泛的影响：这项工作可能会产生重大的广泛影响，产生有用的知识和方法工具，这将是相当大的兴趣，以MSP和研究所伙伴关系和学校系统周围的国家。 通过关注城市学校的内容领导力，这项工作将有助于改善城市青年的数学教育，他们历来受到许多学校系统的服务不足。