Developing Leadership - Middle School Mathematics Teacher Education Project

这个为期两年的城乡项目将：o设计和中试收集数据的工具，以确定中学教师对中学数学概念的理解，并构建这些教师的数学档案；O使用该工具对城乡中学教师进行访谈；O根据教师概况和主要研究者对儿童比例推理和问题解决的研究，为小学教师和校长团队建立在职数学学院；O在对教师进行测试的城乡环境中，开办新设计的暑期学院，并进行学年跟踪。主要研究人员是明尼苏达大学的托马斯·波斯特教授和北伊利诺伊大学的梅林·贝尔教授。PIS将对来自明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯和伊利诺伊州德卡尔布地区的教师进行两种类型的笔试和一次口头面试。考试主题将包括数字和算术运算、有理数、比例推理、几何、概率和统计、预代数、问题解决和技术的概念。PIS将为师范学院开发和选择那些侧重于与数学教学有关的高阶思维技能和理解过程的学习活动。暑期研习班将在1988年夏天开办。学年的后续活动包括几次现场参观和小型会议。

This two year urban and rural project will: o design and pilot test an instrument to collect data to determine middle school teachers' comprehension about middle school mathematical concepts and to construct mathematical profiles of these teachers; o use this instrument to conduct the interviews of urban and rural middle school teachers; o construct in-service mathematics institutes, for teams of elementary school teachers and principals, based on the teachers' profiles and the principal investigators research on children's proportional reasoning and problem solving; o run the newly designed summer institute with academic year follow-up in the urban and rural settings in which the teachers were tested. The principal investigators are Professor Thomas Post of the University of Minnesota and Professor Merlyn Behr of Northern Illinois University. The PIs will administer two types of written examinations and one oral interview to teachers from the Minneapolis, Minnesota and DeKalb, Illinois areas. The examination topics will include concepts of number and arithmetical operations, rational numbers, proportional reasoning, geometry, probability and statistics, pre-algebra, problem solving and technology. The PIs will develop and select those learning activities for the teachers' institute which focus on higher order thinking skills and understanding processes related to mathematical teaching. The summer institutes will run during the summer of 1988. The academic year follow-ups include several on-site visits and mini-conferences.