Math for America Berkeley: NSF Master Teacher Fellowship Program

该项目支持两批优秀的数学和科学教师在旧金山弗朗西斯科湾区成为硕士教师。专业和领导力发展活动的精心组织的结构是支持30名教师，通过各种经验，包括成为教师在居住在加州大学伯克利分校，那里的硕士教师研究员可以采取先进的课程在他们的学科和从事研究在校园数学，科学或教育。该项目是建立在不断增长的计划，加州教学已经创建了科学，工程和数学学生在伯克利的教师教育，并已与当地学区和当地研究机构建立了强有力的合作伙伴关系。美国伯克利数学（MfA-Berkeley）计划，沿着Cal Teach，吸引了来自STEM内容领域以及教育研究生院的教师。在为我国严重缺乏高质量教师的城市学校培训中学数学和科学教师方面，这种教师培训和专业支持的跨学科方法已被证明是至关重要的。该计划提供的专业发展，研究，教育和领导机会提供了一个独特的途径来培养真正的大师教师的干部，他们可以领导下一代数学和科学的关键领域的学习。该方案的重点是在城市学校的教学，往往是服务不足，并加强信念，每个学生都有（1）学习入门和高等数学和科学的能力，（2）有权获得优质教育，支持他们的学习，（3）需要在数学，科学和技术扫盲，使他们有机会获得社会可以提供的一切机会。

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.