Integrating Mathematics and the Sciences in Teacher Education Programs

来自13个机构的13人组成的坚定团队正在改革我们自己的教师准备课程，使其以学生为中心、以探究为基础，并符合国家K-12科学标准。 该团队包括数学家，科学教育家和科学家，他们都为职前教师开发和提供课程。 这三所大学（一所研究型大学、一所技术/社区学院和一所历史悠久的黑人大学）包括来自各种社会经济起点的学生。 我们将小学教师的职前课程相互整合，并与数学相结合。 我们通过针对每个校园，课程和教职员工的需求的具体举措来实现我们的目标。 大项目，学生设计和进行自己的调查，在一段时间内，正在成为自我维持，并出口到其他课程和其他校园。 一对物理科学和生物学课程正在内容和教学法上彻底整合，一门课程的教员在另一门课程中授课，并举行联合工作人员会议。 一个暑假和一些跨学科的教学将促进数学和科学在所有三个校区的整合。 我们对科学的性质在我们的课程之一的成功治疗的研究将支持在其他课程的课程开发。 一本实验手册正在与一家商业出版商签订合同，我们正在与另一家出版商认真谈判，以获得一套完整的教科书。 我们还将通过研讨会和出版物向科学家、科学教育工作者和其他学科的大学教师传播我们的研究结果。

A committed group of thirteen people from thirteen institutions if reforming our own teacher preparation courses, making them student-centered, inquiry based, and aligned with the national K-12 science standards. The team includes mathematicians, science educators, and scientists, all developing and giving courses for pre-service teachers. The three institutions (a research university, a technical/community college, and a historically black university) include students from a variety of SES's (socio-economic starting points). We integrate the pre-service courses for elementary teachers with each other and with mathematics. We progress towards our goals through specific initiatives targeted to the needs of each campus, course, and faculty member. Big Projects, where students design and conduct their own investigations over a period of weeks, are becoming self-sustaining and are exported to other courses and other campuses. One pair of physical science and biology courses is being thoroughly integrated in content and pedagogy, with instructors in one course teaching in the other, and with joint staff meetings. A summer retreat and some cross-disciplinary teaching will facilitate integration of mathematics and science at all three campuses. Our research on the successful treatment of the Nature of Science in one of our courses will support curriculum development in other courses. A laboratory manual is under contract with a commercial publisher, and we are seriously negotiating with another for a full textbook package. We will also disseminate our findings through workshops and publications, addressed to scientists, science educators, and university faculty in other disciplines.