Communities of Practice: Teacher Preparation and Beyond

实践社区：教师准备及其他

• 批准号: 1240046
• 负责人: Karen Anderson
• 金额: $ 120万
• 依托单位: Stonehill College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1240046&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Communities; Practice; Teacher; Preparation; Beyond

Stonehill College is providing 36 scholarships to about 18 junior or senior mathematics majors who commit to teaching at high needs school districts (including districts in Avon, Brockton, Holbrook, Randolph and Stoughton, MA). The project addresses the problems of retaining would-be teachers by developing a community of practice model to prepare and sustain teachers as they matriculate through their teacher preparation and beyond. The project provides professional development opportunities including bringing in master teachers for an on-campus Noyce Speaker Series, school-based enrichment programs where the scholars interact with K-12 students to develop deep conceptual understanding of mathematics, paid mathematics internships within local school districts, special interest housing, and semester-long or summer-long undergraduate research with mathematics or education faculty. The project also addresses the challenge of attracting and retaining highly qualified teachers in the difficult-to-recruit field of mathematics to high need schools while making an effort to attract and retain a more diverse teacher population. The recruitment of these scholars involves theme-based events while cultivating current and potential mathematics majors or students with a declared interest in education to consider joining a community of practice facilitated by the program's activities. The program's intentional design of integrating research with educational experiences enables new mathematics teachers to adopt similar models in their own classrooms, infusing education with the excitement of discovery and sparking their students' interest in mathematics.

斯通希尔学院提供36个奖学金，约18个初级或高级数学专业谁承诺在高需求学区教学（包括在埃文，布罗克顿，霍尔布鲁克，兰多夫和斯托顿，马）。 该项目解决了留住未来教师的问题，方法是开发一个实践社区模式，在教师进入大学时，通过教师准备及以后的工作，为教师做好准备并维持他们的工作。 该项目提供了专业发展的机会，包括引进硕士教师在校园诺伊斯扬声器系列，以学校为基础的充实计划，其中学者与K-12学生互动，以发展数学的深刻概念理解，在当地学区内的带薪数学实习，特殊兴趣住房，以及与数学或教育教师的学期或夏季本科研究。 该项目还解决了吸引和留住难以招聘的数学领域的高素质教师到高需求学校的挑战，同时努力吸引和留住更加多元化的教师群体。 这些学者的招聘涉及基于主题的活动，同时培养当前和潜在的数学专业或对教育感兴趣的学生，考虑加入该计划活动促进的实践社区。 该计划将研究与教育经验相结合的故意设计使新的数学教师能够在自己的课堂上采用类似的模型，为教育注入发现的兴奋并激发学生对数学的兴趣。