West Virginia Center for Rural Mathematics & Science Integration: A Development Grant Proposal

该提案旨在建立机构能力和合作伙伴关系，以在西弗吉尼亚大学建立一个完整的教学中心。 一个完整的中心，因为它是设想将重点放在重要的问题，在农村地区的科学和数学教学。 这些问题包括地理、土著知识的重要性、基础设施需求和有限的财政资源等方面。 该中心还将侧重于如何整合和协调各种科学，数学和技术内容领域在初中和高中水平，无论是内部和跨学科领域。 在这个发展项目期间，将成立一个研究小组，评估八个区域数学和科学联合会（RMSC）的需求，并成立另一组研究小组，研究项目所关注的问题。 其中包括研究农村环境中的学习和教学、土著知识的特点、为有特殊需要的学生提供学习支持的方法、立法和产业支持、实施障碍、专业发展方案以及跨学科数学和科学内容。

This proposal is to build the institutional capactiy and partnerships needed to develop a full center for teaching and learning at West Virginia University. A full center as it is envisioned will focus on issues of importance for teaching science and mathematics in rural settings. These issues include aspects of geography, the importance of indigenous knowledge, infrastructure needs and limited financial resources. The center will also focus on ways to integrate and coordinate the various sciences, mathematics and technology content areas at the middle and high school levels, both within and across subject areas. During this developmental project a study group will be formed to assess the needs at each of eight regional math and science consortia (RMSCs) and another set of study groups will be formed to study issues of concern to the project. These include research on learning and teaching in rural settings, characterizing indigenous knowledge, ways to provide learning support to students with special needs, legislative and industrial support, barriers to implementation, professional development programs and interdisciplinary math and science content.