Preparing, Inspiring and Connecting Students to College and Opportunity: Increasing the Quality and Intensity of Professional Development for Mathematics Teachers

大学理事会与LessonLab，Inc.和几个城市学区合作，为一个为期三年的项目寻求NSF资金，该项目旨在为6-12年级的数学教师开发、试点和评估线下/在线混合专业发展计划的有效性和可扩展性。这一密集的PD课程将为教师提供必要的内容知识和教学技能，为服务不足的学生提供优质的数学教学，以便更大比例的低收入和少数族裔学生可以注册并取得更高水平的数学课程，包括AP微积分和AP统计学。在GE基金的支持下，大学理事会得以开发了头两个系统组成部分：6-12年级的教学材料(提交提案时处于试验阶段)和嵌入式诊断评估(提交提案时正在开发中)。提高高水平班级中服务不足的少数族裔学生的比例需要长期的承诺。但是，为了提高教师的教学知识和教学技能，改变课堂实践，需要以可持续和可扩展的方式提供密集的高质量PD。这就是这个项目直接回应的挑战。

The College Board, in partnership with LessonLab, Inc. and several urban school districts, seeks NSF funding for a three-year project to develop, pilot and evaluate the effectiveness and scalability of a blended offline/online professional development program for mathematics teachers of grades 6-12. This intensive PD program will provide teachers with the content knowledge and pedagogical skills necessary to deliver quality mathematics instruction to underserved students, so that a larger percentage of low-income and minority students may enroll and succeed in advanced-level mathematics courses, including AP Calculus and AP Statistics.The proposed project is the third component of a comprehensive mathematics system under development. Support from the GE Fund has enabled the College Board to develop the first two system components: the instructional materials for grades 6-12 (in the pilot phase at the time of proposal submission), and the embedded diagnostic assessments (under development at the time of proposal submission). Increasing the percentage of underserved minority students in upper-level classes requires a long-term commitment. But, for teachers' content knowledge and instructional skills to improve and classroom practices to change, intensive high-quality PD needs to be provided in a sustainable and scalable way. That is the challenge to which this project responds directly.