Preparing the Effective Elementary Mathematics Teacher

从国家科学基金会罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金计划的资金，蒙特克莱尔州立大学，与莫里斯县学院合作，将准备本科数学专业成为幼儿园通过6年级小学数学教师通过其准备有效的小学数学教师（PE2MT）项目。该项目将在五年内为数学专业提供30个奖学金。PE2MT奖学金计划中教师候选人的经验将通过对高级内容课程的学术支持，丰富的方法和专业内容课程，早期和持续的面向社区的实地经验，本科研究经验，长期在职入职支持，和研讨会，培养社区和连接该计划的所有组成部分。PE2MT奖学金计划将产生30个新的小学数学教师谁是做好充分准备，在高需求的学校任教在新泽西。这些教师将从一个独特的增强型学位课程毕业，该课程使他们除了数学和教育课程要求之外，还参与了一系列教学，心理和认识论上的专业发展经验。该方案的目标是：招聘高质量的职前小学教师进行有效的数学教学，为高需求学校的高质量职前小学教师进行有效的数学教学做好准备，并促进高需求学校留住高质量的小学数学教师。因此，该项目通过招聘新的小学数学教师，为他们提供非凡的准备经验，并将他们安置在最需要他们的学校，扩大了代表性不足的群体对数学的参与。此外，PE2MT项目将进行研究，旨在更好地了解职前数学教师准备在小学一级通过调查学士学位水平的数学知识，小学数学教学的潜在贡献，以及如何这些职前教师的文化，社区和教学内容的知识发展，因为他们学会教数学的小学课堂的多样性。

With funding from the National Science Foundation Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program, Montclair State University, in collaboration with The County College of Morris, will prepare undergraduate mathematics majors to become Kindergarten thru 6th grade elementary mathematics teachers through its Preparing the Effective Elementary Mathematics Teacher (PE2MT) project. The project will fund 30 scholarships to mathematics majors over five years. The experience of teacher candidates in the PE2MT Scholarship Program will be enhanced by academic support for advanced content courses, enriched methods and specialized content courses, early and ongoing community-oriented field experiences, undergraduate research experience, prolonged in-service induction support, and seminars that cultivate community and connect all components of the program.The PE2MT Scholarship Program will produce 30 new elementary mathematics teachers who are well prepared to teach in high-need schools in New Jersey. These teachers will have graduated from a uniquely enhanced degree program that engages them in a range of pedagogically, psychologically, and epistemologically transforming professional development experiences in addition to their mathematics and education coursework requirements. The program goals are to: recruit high-quality pre-service elementary teachers for effective mathematics teaching, prepare high-quality pre-service elementary teachers for a career of effective mathematics teaching in a high-need school, and promote the retention of high-quality elementary math teachers in high-need schools. Accordingly, this project broadens participation to under-represented groups in mathematics by recruiting new elementary mathematics teachers to the profession, providing them with extraordinary preparation experiences, and placing them in the schools where they are needed most. In addition, the PE2MT project will undertake research that aims to better understand pre-service mathematics teacher preparation at the elementary level by investigating the potential contributions of bachelors-level mathematical knowledge to elementary mathematics teaching and how these pre-service teachers' cultural, community, and pedagogical content knowledge develop as they learn to teach mathematics for the diversity of elementary classrooms.