Developing Rich Media-based Materials for Practice-based Teacher Education

为基于实践的教师教育开发基于富媒体的材料

• 批准号: 1316241
• 负责人: Daniel Chazan
• 金额: $ 263.49万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-08-15 至 2020-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1316241&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Developing; Rich; Media; based; Materials

The 4-year research and development project, Developing Rich Media-based Materials for Practice-based Teacher Education, is premised on the notion that recent technological developments have made it feasible to represent classroom work in new ways. In addition to watching recorded videos of classroom interactions or reading written cases, teacher educators and teachers can now watch animations and image sequences, realized with cartoon characters, and made to depict activities that happened, or could have happened, in a mathematics classroom. Furthermore, teacher educators and teachers can react to such animations or image sequences by making their own depictions of alternative moves by students or teachers in classroom interaction. And all of that can take place in an on-line, cloud-based environment that also supports discussion fora, questionnaires, and the kinds of capabilities associated with learning management systems. Such technologies offer important affordances to teacher educators seeking to provide candidates with course-based experiences that emphasize the development of practice-based skills. The focus of the project is on mathematics teacher education. This joint project of the University of Maryland Center for Mathematics Education and the University of Michigan will produce 6 to 8 field-tested modules for use in different courses that are a part of mathematics teacher preparation programs. The following two-pronged research question will be resolved: What are the affordances and constraints of the modules and the environment as supports for: (1) practice based teacher education and (2) a shift toward blended teacher education?The project involves the following activities: (1) a teacher education materials development component; (2) a related evaluation component; and (3) two research components. The development phase seeks to develop both the LessonSketch.org platform and six to eight mathematics teacher education modules for use in preservice teacher education programs from around the country. The modules will be written with practice-based teacher education goals in mind and will use the capacities of the LessonSketch.org platform as a vehicle for using rich-media artifacts of teaching with preservice teacher candidates. LessonSketch Teacher Education Research and Development Fellows will be chosen through a competitive application process. They will develop their respective modules along with teams of colleagues that will be recruited to form their inquiry group and pilot the module activities. The evaluation activity will focus on the materials development aspect of the project. Data will be collected by the LessonSketch platform, which includes interviews with Fellows and their teams, perspectives of module writers, descriptive statistics of module use, and feedback from both teacher educator and preservice teacher end-users about the quality of their experiences. The first research activity of the project is design research on the kinds of technological infrastructure that are useful for practice-based teacher education. The PIs will identify tools that teacher educators need and want beyond the current capabilities for web-based support for use of rich media and will produce prototype tools inside the LessonSketch environment to meet these needs. The second research activity of the project will supplement the evaluation activity by examining the implementation of two of the modules in detail. This aspect of the research will examine the goals of the intended curriculum, the proposed modes of media use, the fidelity of the implemented curriculum, and learnings produced by preservice teachers. This research activity will help the field understand the degree to which practice-based teacher education that is mediated by an online access to rich media would be a kind of practice that could be easily incorporated into existing teacher education structures. The project will produce 6 to 8 LessonSketch modules for use in teacher education classes. Each module will be implemented in at least eight teacher education classes across the country, which means that between 720 and 960 preservice teacher candidates will study the materials. The project aims to shift the field toward practice-based teacher education by supporting university programs to implement classroom-driven activities that will produce mathematics teachers with strong capabilities to teach mathematics effectively and meaningfully.

这项为期四年的研究和开发项目“为基于实践的教师教育开发基于富媒体的材料”的前提是，最近的技术发展使得以新的方式表现课堂工作变得可行。除了观看录制的课堂互动视频或阅读书面案例外，教师教育工作者和教师现在还可以观看用卡通人物实现的动画和图像序列，并用来描述数学课堂上发生或可能发生的活动。此外，教师教育者和教师可以通过在课堂互动中对学生或教师的替代动作进行自己的描述来对此类动画或图像序列做出反应。所有这些都可以在基于云的在线环境中进行，该环境还支持讨论论坛、调查问卷以及与学习管理系统相关的各种功能。这些技术为教师教育工作者提供了重要的支持，他们希望为候选人提供基于课程的经验，强调基于实践的技能的发展。该项目的重点是数学教师教育。马里兰大学数学教育中心和密歇根大学的这个联合项目将制作 6 到 8 个经过现场测试的模块，用于不同的课程，这些课程是数学教师准备项目的一部分。将解决以下两方面的研究问题：作为支持的模块和环境的可供性和约束是什么：（1）基于实践的教师教育和（2）向混合式教师教育的转变？该项目涉及以下活动：（1）教师教育材料开发部分； (2) 相关的评估部分； (3) 两个研究部分。开发阶段旨在开发 LessonSketch.org 平台和六到八个数学教师教育模块，用于全国各地的职前教师教育项目。这些模块的编写将考虑到基于实践的教师教育目标，并将利用 LessonSketch.org 平台的功能作为对职前教师候选人使用富媒体教学工件的工具。 LessonSketch 教师教育研究与发展研究员将通过竞争性申请流程选出。他们将与同事团队一起开发各自的模块，这些同事将被招募来组成他们的调查小组并试点模块活动。评估活动将重点关注该项目的材料开发方面。 LessonSketch 平台将收集数据，其中包括对研究员及其团队的采访、模块编写者的观点、模块使用的描述性统计数据，以及教师教育者和职前教师最终用户对其体验质量的反馈。该项目的第一项研究活动是对有助于基于实践的教师教育的技术基础设施的设计研究。 PI 将确定教师教育工作者需要和想要的工具，这些工具超出了当前基于网络支持富媒体使用的功能，并将在 LessonSketch 环境中制作原型工具来满足这些需求。该项目的第二项研究活动将通过详细检查其中两个模块的实施情况来补充评估活动。这方面的研究将审查预期课程的目标、拟议的媒体使用模式、实施课程的保真度以及职前教师的学习成果。这项研究活动将帮助该领域了解以在线访问富媒体为媒介的基于实践的教师教育将在多大程度上成为一种可以轻松纳入现有教师教育结构的实践。该项目将制作 6 至 8 个 LessonSketch 模块，供教师教育课程使用。每个模块将在全国至少八个教师教育课程中实施，这意味着 720 至 960 名职前教师候选人将学习这些材料。该项目旨在通过支持大学项目实施课堂驱动的活动，将这一领域转向基于实践的教师教育，从而培养具有强大有效和有意义的数学教学能力的数学教师。