Smarter together working conference: Developing a shared curriculum of Complex Instruction for elementary mathematics methods courses

智慧合作工作会议：为基础数学方法课程开发复杂教学共享课程

• 批准号: 1461833
• 负责人: Amy Parks
• 金额: $ 4.37万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-01 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1461833&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Smarter; together; working; conference; Developing

This working conference will help university professors who teach elementary mathematics methods courses learn to use Complex Instruction, a research-proven pedagogy for building mathematical content knowledge and supporting the learning of diverse students. In Complex Instruction, educators design tasks that require multiple mathematical abilities to solve. For example, solving a particular task might require computational skills as well as the ability to visualize a 3-dimensional object and represent that object on paper. Through this mathematical complexity, the tasks demand that students engage deeply with mathematics and draw on each others' mathematical strengths. In addition, in Complex Instruction teachers use strategies that minimize status differences in the classroom that impact participation, ensuring that all students - regardless of their popularity, first-language, race, or income level - participate equitably. During the conference, 28 university instructors from across the country will design tasks to be used in mathematics methods courses for prospective elementary teachers. Mathematics educators from University of Georgia, University of Arizona, University of Michigan, and Michigan State University will work together to design and host the conference. The conference is expected to produce a cohort of mathematics educators knowledgeable about Complex Instruction, and who can then support colleagues at their home institutions in learning to use the pedagogy as well as promoting the use of Complex Instruction in mathematics classrooms in U.S. elementary schools. After learning the essential elements of Complex Instruction, conference participants will design Complex Instruction curriculum modules to implement at their home institutions. Evaluation of the conference will include surveys and phone interviews with conference participants to assess their knowledge of and use of Complex Instruction. In addition, some participants will be selected for more extensive follow-up, including the collection of videos of Complex Instruction lessons in their courses and surveys of their students. Data will be analyzed to identify major themes related to the knowledge of the participants and their students, the supports and obstacles present in various contexts in relation to adopting a new pedagogy, and the impact of Complex Instruction on the methods courses.All of the tasks and the activities designed during the conference will be available not only to the conference participants but also to anyone interested in Complex Instruction through the website, www.ci.org. In addition, by developing experts in Complex Instruction at more than a dozen universities across the country, the conference will play an important role in disseminating this relatively new, but effective, pedagogy. Evidence about the effectiveness of Complex Instruction suggests that large-scale incorporation of this practice into mathematics methods classrooms will increase the mathematics understandings of prospective elementary teachers and ultimately their students, particularly those in schools with significant numbers of marginalized students.

本次工作会议将帮助教授初等数学方法课程的大学教授学习使用复杂教学法，这是一种经过研究验证的教学法，用于构建数学内容知识并支持不同学生的学习。在复杂教学中，教育工作者设计需要多种数学能力来解决的任务。例如，解决一个特定的任务可能需要计算技能以及可视化三维对象并在纸上表示该对象的能力。通过这种数学的复杂性，任务要求学生深入参与数学，并借鉴彼此的数学优势。此外，在综合教学中，教师使用的策略是最大限度地减少影响参与的课堂地位差异，确保所有学生-无论其受欢迎程度，第一语言，种族或收入水平-平等参与。会议期间，来自全国各地的28名大学教师将为未来的小学教师设计数学方法课程中使用的任务。来自格鲁吉亚大学、亚利桑那大学、密歇根大学和密歇根州立大学的数学教育工作者将共同设计和主办这次会议。会议预计将产生一批了解复杂教学的数学教育工作者，然后他们可以支持家乡机构的同事学习使用教学法，并促进在美国小学数学课堂中使用复杂教学。在学习了复杂教学的基本要素后，与会者将设计复杂教学课程模块，在他们的家庭机构实施。会议的评估将包括调查和电话采访会议参与者，以评估他们的知识和使用复杂的指令。此外，还将挑选一些参与者进行更广泛的后续工作，包括收集其课程中的综合教学课程视频以及对其学生进行调查。将对数据进行分析，以确定与参与者及其学生的知识有关的主要主题，在采用新教学法的各种情况下存在的支持和障碍，以及复杂教学对方法课程的影响。会议期间设计的所有任务和活动不仅将提供给会议参与者，也将提供给任何对复杂教学感兴趣的人，此外，通过在全国十几所大学培养复杂教学专家，会议将在传播这种相对较新但有效的教学法方面发挥重要作用。复杂教学的有效性的证据表明，大规模纳入这一做法到数学方法的教室将增加未来的小学教师，并最终他们的学生，特别是那些在学校有大量的边缘化学生的数学理解。