SCISM-Summer Certification Institute in Secondary Mathematics

亚利桑那州立大学夏季中学数学认证学院（SCISM）项目是一个平行认证序列，使30名高年级学生在完成数学或工程学士学位的同时，能够参加成为中学数学教师所需的课程和实地考察。SCISM学生在大四学年和大四前后的两个暑假完成他们的教育要求。他们毕业时获得数学或工程学学士学位，并获得15个硕士学位学分。SCISM的两个显著特点是本科教学实习和专业学习社区（plc）的使用。在实习中，SCISM候选人将被指导在亚利桑那州立大学的本科课堂上教授一节大学代数。候选人参加与实习相关的教师专业学习社区。在他们的plc中，SCISM候选人深入研究他们所教授的内容，并在制定有效的课程计划和教学方法方面相互支持。plc继续进入新教师的入职期，作为一个框架，在他们作为高中数学教师的见习期间支持教师。SCISM学生在高需求的亚利桑那州学区获得实地经验和学生教学学分。在完成SCISM课程后，他们被要求在一个高需求地区教3年数学。CRESMET是亚利桑那州立大学的科学、数学、工程和技术教育研究中心，它与教育学院、数学系和Ira A. Fulton工程学院合作赞助了SCISM。SCISM正在扩展CRESMET于2005年启动的一项试点工作，当时有8名学生和波音公司的启动资金。SCISM从德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校建立的UTeach模式中汲取灵感，并在UTeach模式的基础上进行创新，将大学课堂教学模式与专业学习社区的使用相结合。

The Summer Certification Institute in Secondary Mathematics (SCISM) program at Arizona State University is a parallel certification sequence that is enabling 30 upper-level students to take the courses and fieldwork required to become secondary mathematics teachers while they are completing a bachelor's degree in mathematics or engineering. SCISM students complete their education requirements in the senior academic year and the two summers before and after the senior year. They graduate with a bachelor's degree in mathematics or engineering and 15 graduate credits toward the M.Ed. Two distinctive features of SCISM are an undergraduate teaching practicum and the use of professional learning communities (PLCs). In the practicum, SCISM candidates are mentored in teaching a section of College Algebra in ASU undergraduate classrooms. The candidates participate in teacher professional learning communities that are linked to the practicum. In their PLCs, SCISM candidates dig deeply into the content they are teaching and support one another in developing effective lesson plans and methods of instruction. The PLCs continue into the new teacher induction period, serving as a framework for supporting the teachers during their novitiate as high school math instructors. SCISM students gain their field experience and student teaching credits in high-need Arizona school districts. They are required to teach mathematics for three years in a high-need district upon completing the SCISM program. CRESMET, ASU's Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology, is sponsoring SCISM in collaboration with the College of Education, the Department of Mathematics, and the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering. SCISM is expanding on a pilot effort that CRESMET launched in 2005 with eight students and start-up funding from the Boeing Company. SCISM draws inspiration from the UTeach model established at the University of Texas at Austin and innovates on the UTeach model by combining a college classroom-teaching model with the use of professional learning communities.