The Elementary Pre-Service Teachers Mathematics Project

小学职前教师数学项目学科：数学科学（21）“小学职前教师数学项目”正在开发，测试和传播材料，以促进本科小学职前教师学习基于话语的教学方法。 这些材料有助于提高学生自己的数学理解以及他们向儿童解释数学概念的能力。 除了为职前教师编写的教材外，该项目还为大学教师为职前小学教师编写一本手册。 在项目的第一年，正在四个不同的机构测试这些材料的效用。 在该项目的第二年，测试正在扩大到马萨诸塞州的其他机构。 他们还在波士顿大学进行了一项关于材料功效的对照实验。 在两年的资助期内，该项目直接影响了195名未来的小学教师，并正在成为基于讨论的教师准备模式。 项目教师正在为马萨诸塞州的教师举办一系列讲习班，提供使用材料的培训，特别是开发的基于话语的教学法。该项目非常重视研究，还通过出版物和介绍更广泛地分享资源和经验教训。

The Elementary Pre-Service Teachers Mathematics ProjectDiscipline: Mathematical Sciences (21)"The Elementary Pre-Service Teachers Mathematics Project" is developing, testing, and disseminating materials to facilitate the learning of discourse-based instructional methods by undergraduate elementary pre-service teachers. These materials are helping improve the student's own mathematical understandings as well as their ability to explain the mathematical concepts to children. In addition to materials for pre-service teachers, this project is developing a handbook for college faculty teaching pre-service elementary teachers. The usefulness of these materials is being tested at four different institutions during the first year of the project. During the second year of the project, the testing is being extended to other institutions in Massachusetts. They are also running a controlled experiment at Boston University on the efficacy of the materials. Over the two year grant period, this project is directly impacting 195 future elementary school teachers and is becoming a model for discussion-based teacher preparation. Project faculty are holding a series of workshops for faculty in Massachusetts, providing training in the use of the materials and particularly in the discourse-based pedagogy developed. With a strong emphasis on research, this project is also sharing resources and lessons learned more broadly through publications and presentations.