Honors Workshop on the Teaching and Learning of Algebra

这个领导能力活动项目将为24名模范数学教师和48名准备不足的学校同事提供提升和专业发展经验。该项目的总体目标包括更新和深化参与者的数学背景和教学方法，参与者的网络，参与者和项目工作人员经常在学校和校园进行帮助和分享会议，以及在精心规划的文件，评估和评估工作中调查模型方法。参与者将被精心挑选，以确保领导老师、他们的两个同伴和他们的学校管理者对项目目标的承诺。该项目将从教师教育的概念模型出发，该模型包括五个阶段，以构建领导活动的新知识：示范、实践、反馈、转移指导和领导指导。在第一个夏天，24名高中代数老师将在密歇根州立大学参加一个为期三周的研讨会。他们将研究初等代数的概念发展，以及编码理论和线性规划的新应用，与初学代数的学生一起观察教学演示，并制定计划和活动，将其应用到自己的教学中。在下一学年，教师们将把新的教学实践和代数应用融入他们的课堂，项目工作人员将至少访问三次进行辅导。整个小组将在校园会面三次（5天），以分享和评估进展，并计划第二年的外展活动。在为期一周的夏季会议中，24名荣誉教师将与两名同龄人合作，开始他们的团队改进。在1987-88学年期间，领导教师将继续指导这些外联教师，这些教师将由主要研究人员访问和指导。

This Leadership Activities project will provide enhancement and professional development experiences for 24 exemplary mathematics teachers and 48 of their less well-prepared school colleagues. The overall goals of the project involve the updating and deepening of the participants' mathematical backgrounds and teaching methodologies, the networking of the participants, the conduct of frequent school- and campus-based helping and sharing sessions by the participants and project staff, and the investi-gation of the modelistic approach within a carefully planned documentation, assesssment and evaluation effort. Participants will be carefully selected to assure commitments of the leader teacher, their two peers, and their school administrators to the project goals. The project will operate from a conceptual model of teacher education which encompasses five phases for constructing new knowledge for leadership activities: demonstration, practice, feedback, coaching for transfer, and coaching for leadership. In the first summer 24 high school algebra teachers will participate in a three-week workshop on the campus of Michigan State University. They will study the conceptual development of elementary algebra as well as new applications in coding theory and linear programming, observe teaching demonstrations with beginning algebra students, and develop plans and activities for implementation into their own teaching. During the next school year the teachers will integrate new teaching practices and algebraic applications into their classes, which project staff will visit at least three times for coaching sessions. The entire group will meet three times (5 days) back on the campus to share and assess progress and to plan for the outreach during the second year. During a one-week summer conference, the 24 honors teachers wil work with two peers to begin their team improvement. During the 1987-88 school year the lead teachers will continue to coach these outreach teachers, who will be visited and also coached by the principal investigators.