North Carolina NAEP: Improving Mathematics Content and Methods Courses

本项目在大学和社区学院为职前中小学教师开设的本科数学内容与方法（MC&amp；M）课程中加强、调整和实施“向NAEP学习：教师专业发展”（LFN）教材。该项目帮助职前教师：1)提高数学内容知识；2)学习如何用有效的方法教数学；3)了解NAEP的目的和用途；4)学习如何使用NAEP来改善他们的教学，以支持所有学生的成就。该项目的智力价值在于它确定了一组模范资源，重新利用这些资源用于职前教师，并为新教师提供了第一手学习如何将NAEP的发现纳入自己的教学的机会。该项目更广泛的影响体现在它集合了一系列不同的机构，这些机构代表了许多PI州的职前学生在获得认证的道路上取得进展的管道。此外，这些机构服务于城市人口和大部分农村人口的需要。反过来，这种合作本身具有良好的潜力，可以作为其他同样承担职前教师教育责任的机构如何实现其目标的典范。

Mathematical Sciences (21) This project is enhancing, adapting, and implementing the materials, "Learning from NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress): Professional Development for Teachers" (LFN) in undergraduate mathematics content and methods (MC&M) courses for preservice elementary and middle school teachers taught in universities and community colleges. The project is helping preservice teachers: 1) improve their mathematical content knowledge; 2) learn how to use effective methods to teach mathematics; 3) become aware of the purposes for, and uses of, NAEP; and 4) learn how to use NAEP to improve their teaching to support all students' achievement. The intellectual merit of the project lies in its identification of an exemplary set of resources, the repurposing of those resources for use with preservice teachers, and the resulting opportunity the project provides for novice teachers to learn first hand how to incorporate the findings of NAEP to improve their own teaching. The broader impacts of the project are found in its assemblage of a diverse set of institutions that represent the pipeline through which many preservice students in the PI's state progress on their way to certification. Moreover, these institutions serve the needs of both an urban and a largely rural population. In turn this collaboration itself holds excellent potential to serve as a model for how other institutions similarly charged with responsibility for preservice teacher education may accomplish their goals.