The Urban Math And Science Teacher Collaborative

塔夫茨大学城市数学和科学教师合作项目是塔夫茨大学三个艺术和科学部门（教育、数学、物理和天文学）和三所5-12年级的波士顿公立学校（波士顿艺术学院、芬威高中和观澜山学校）之间的合作项目。应用特殊技术中心（CAST）是一个当地的非营利组织，正在围绕通用学习设计（UDL）提供专业发展，UDL是一个设计课程和教学的框架，以解决学习障碍。该合作计划将在未来6年内培养16名新的数学和科学教学研究员，并为4名硕士教学研究员的发展做出贡献。它建立在十多年来通过城市教师培训合作（UTTC）为城市学校工作的教师做准备的经验基础上，UTTC是一个以学校为基础的教师驻留计划，在该计划中，职前教师在导师教师和大学教授的指导下在指定的学校全职工作一学年，同时获得教学艺术硕士学位（MAT）。物理和数学系的教育和STEM教师正在合作开发两门将科学和数学内容与教学法相结合的新课程。通过创建在线社区（通过数字工具箱和博客）提供持续的专业发展，以鼓励助教、助教、大学参与者和CAST之间的交流和讨论。这些课程、教材、有效教学的范例和教师讨论论坛都是免费的、开源的、跨平台的模块，大学和学校可以在知识共享许可下使用和修改。该项目旨在提高教师对城市环境中教学挑战的理解；增加城市学校数学和科学教师的数量并留住他们；转变教师的数学和科学实践；提高助教和助教授课学生对科学和数学的理解和表现；并与当地城市学校建立更牢固的关系。

The Tufts University Urban Mathematics and Science Teacher Collaborative is a collaboration among three Tufts University Arts and Sciences departments (Education, Mathematics, and Physics & Astronomy) and three Boston public schools in the 5-12 grade range (Boston Arts Academy, Fenway High School, and Mission Hill School). A local non-profit organization, the Center for Applied Special Technologies (CAST) is providing professional development around Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a framework for designing curriculum and instruction to address barriers to learning. The Collaborative is preparing 16 new Mathematics and Science Teaching Fellows (TFs), and contributing to the development of 4 Master Teaching Fellows (MTFs) over 6 years. It builds on more than 10 years of experience in the preparation of teachers for work in urban schools through the Urban Teacher Training Collaborative (UTTC), a school-based teacher residency program in which pre-service teachers work in their assigned schools full-time for a full academic year under the guidance of mentor teachers and university professors while earning a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) degree. Two new courses integrating science and mathematics content with pedagogy are being developed collaboratively by education and STEM faculty in the physics and mathematics departments. Ongoing professional development is provided through the creation of an online community (through Digital Toolboxes and blogs) to encourage communication and discussion among TFs, MTFs, University Participants, and CAST. The courses, course materials, examples of effective teaching, and teacher discussion forums are being built as free, open-source, cross-platform modules that universities and schools can use and modify under Creative Commons licensing. The project seeks to increase teachers' understanding of the challenges of teaching in urban settings; increase the numbers and retention of teachers of Mathematics and Science in urban schools; transform teachers' practices in Mathematics and Science; increase student understanding and performance in Science and Mathematics for students taught by TF and MTFs; and develop stronger relationships with local urban schools.