Math for America Berkeley: NSF Master Teacher Fellowship Program

该项目正在支持旧金山湾区两批杰出的数学和科学教师成为大师教师。精心组织的专业和领导力发展活动的结构通过各种经验支持了总共30名教师，包括成为加州大学伯克利分校的驻校教师，在那里，硕士教师研究员可以在其学科上学习高级课程，并在校园内从事数学、科学或教育方面的研究。该项目的基础是Cal Teach为伯克利的科学、工程和数学学生的教师教育创建的不断增长的项目，以及与当地学区和当地研究机构建立的牢固合作伙伴关系。美国-伯克利数学(MFA-Berkeley)项目与加州大学伯克利分校一起，聘请了STEM内容领域和教育研究生院的教师。在为我国严重缺乏高素质教师的城市学校培训中学数学和科学教师的背景下，这种跨学科的教师准备和专业支助方法被证明是至关重要的。该项目提供的专业发展、研究、教育和领导力机会为培养一支真正的大师教师队伍提供了独特的途径，他们能够领导下一代在数学和科学关键领域的学习。该方案的重点是在往往得不到充分服务的城市学校进行教学，并强化了这样的信念：(1)每个学生都有能力学习初级和高级数学和科学，(2)有权获得支持他们学习的优质教育，(3)需要数学、科学和技术方面的扫盲，以便他们能够获得社会所能提供的每一个机会。

This project is supporting two cohorts of outstanding mathematics and science teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area to become Master Teachers. The carefully organized structure of professional and leadership development activities is supporting a total of 30 teachers though a variety of experiences, including becoming a Teacher-in-Residence at UC Berkeley where the Master Teacher Fellows can take advanced courses in their discipline and engage in research on campus in mathematics, science or education. The project is building on the growing program that Cal Teach has created for teacher education of science, engineering and mathematics students at Berkeley, and on the strong partnerships that have been established with local school districts and with local research institutions. The Math for America-Berkeley (MfA-Berkeley) Program, along with Cal Teach, engages faculty from the STEM content areas as well as from the Graduate School of Education. This interdisciplinary approach to teacher preparation and professional support has been shown to be critical in the context of training secondary mathematics and science teachers for our nation's urban schools, where high quality teachers are severely lacking. The professional development, research, educational and leadership opportunities available within the program provide a unique avenue to develop a cadre of true Master Teachers who can lead the next generation of learning in the critical areas of mathematics and science. The program has a focus on teaching in urban schools that are often under-served, and reinforces the beliefs that every student has (1) the capacity to learn both introductory and advanced mathematics and science, (2) the right to a quality education that supports their learning, and (3) the need for literacy in mathematics, science and technology so that they have access to every opportunity that society can provide.