Support and Mentoring in an Alternative Route to Teaching (SMART)

替代教学途径的支持和指导 (SMART)

• 批准号: 0934894
• 负责人: Aaron Bertram
• 金额: $ 149.99万
• 依托单位: University of Utah
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-15 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0934894&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Mentoring; Alternative; Route; Teaching

SMART Utah is bringing 22 professionals with strong mathematical backgrounds and an interest in teaching into the profession in a manner that helps bridge the obstacles in making the transition: bringing the Fellows under supervised mentoring to the level of master teachers, while meeting the needs of districts to increase the number of quality math teachers. The collaborating entities are: the University of Utah Department of Mathematics and College of Education; the Utah State University departments of Mathematics and Teacher Education and Leadership; the Division of Teacher Quality and Licensure at the Utah State Office of Education; Math for America (MfA); the Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI); and the Jordan, Granite, Salt Lake and San Juan school districts. The bases of the program are: in-depth understanding of mathematical content, connections between various mathematical areas, and connections between mathematics and other disciplines; pedagogical training that is content-driven, flexible and inclusive; permanent professional learning communities in the schools where teachers can continually extend their learning. On these bases, teachers can transmit important mathematical understandings to their students, transforming their classes into learning communities as well. Through participation in the Park City Mathematics Institute, the Fellows are exposed to current mathematical research and to research in mathematics education as an integral part of their professional development. Through lesson study they undertake building of instruction informed by their teaching practices, and the feedback they receive from both their peers and students. Through the established distance-learning program at USU, with satellite sites throughout the state, the project is impacting teachers and prospective teachers state-wide. The project interacts with a mathematics education center in San Juan county, serving the Navajo and Ute nations in Utah.

Smart Utah将有22位具有强大数学背景的专业人员和有助于弥合过渡的障碍的方式，并有兴趣进入该专业：将研究员受到监督指导的水平，同时满足各地区的需求，以增加优质的数学老师的数量。合作实体是：犹他大学数学系和教育学院；犹他州立大学数学和教师教育和领导力系；犹他州教育办公室的教师质量和许可部门；美国数学（MFA）；帕克城数学学院（PCMI）；以及约旦，花岗岩，盐湖和圣胡安学区。该程序的基础是：深入了解数学内容，各个数学领域之间的联系以及数学与其他学科之间的联系；内容驱动，灵活和包容的教学培训；教师可以不断扩展学习的学校的永久专业学习社区。在这些基础上，教师可以向学生传达重要的数学理解，也可以将他们的班级转变为学习社区。 通过参与帕克城数学研究所，研究员接触了当前的数学研究，并在数学教育方面进行了研究，这是其专业发展的组成部分。通过课程研究，他们进行了以教学实践为导致的教学的建设，以及他们从同龄人和学生那里收到的反馈。通过在USU的既有远程学习计划，全州都有卫星站点，该项目正在影响教师和潜在的教师在全州范围内。该项目与圣胡安县的数学教育中心互动，为犹他州的纳瓦霍和乌特国家提供服务。