Math for America-DC

该奖项由《2009年美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法第111-5条)资助。美国数学DC项目是由美国大学(AU)教育、教学和健康学院(SEH)和数学与统计系(M/S)、华盛顿卡内基科学教育学院(CASE)卡内基研究所(CASE)、DC公共和公共特许学校以及美国数学(MFA)合作开展的。它的目标是通过招聘、培训、指导和留住14名具有强大数学背景的助教来改善华盛顿特区学校的中学数学教学。在MFA DC项目中，教学研究员获得证书并在华盛顿特区任教四年，华盛顿特区是一个高需求的学区，此前他们在一个特别设计的学术项目中进行了15个月的密集学习，其中包括课堂体验。在整个为期5年的项目中，学员将体验到专门设计的专业发展、密集的指导和专家支持，特别是在入职方面。AU-Seth合作伙伴提供了中学教育教学文科硕士学位：数学，重点是教授数学和高需求地区的挑战。澳门大学/S提供研究生水平的数学课程，包括一门专注于中学数学内容的课程。非盟计划包括18学分的教育学，15学分的数学内容课程，以及500小时的教学和观摩课堂上优秀的中学数学教师。CASE正在提供筹资和组织努力(例如，在四个教学年度期间进行招聘和指导以及职业发展)，并正在与纽约的MFA组织协调活动。参与学区为研究员提供在培训和教学期间观察和授课的机会，在认证过程中进行合作，并确保培训年度结束后有机会获得可用的教学职位。该项目是对教师深厚的内容知识可以提高中学生对数学的理解和学习的想法的考验。研究员们的经验对培养STEM专业人员成为高需求学生的有效教师所需的教学培训和支助方面提供了重要的信息。正在通过在会议上的陈述和学术出版物与地方和国家教育界分享调查结果。该方案的目标是满足国家需要，改善弱势青年的教育，使他们能够完成高中学业，渴望上大学和从事生产性就业，并成为有贡献的公民。该项目与MFA项目的联系，与其他MFA城市一起，有助于放大影响，扩大数据，为全国数学教育的改善提供信息。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The Math for America DC program is a collaboration between American University's (AU) School of Education, Teaching, and Health (SETH) and Department of Mathematics and Statistics (M/S), Carnegie Institution of Washington's Carnegie Academy for Science Education (CASE), the DC Public and Public Charter Schools, and Math for America (MfA). Its goal is to improve secondary school math teaching in Washington, DC schools by recruiting, training, mentoring, and retaining 14 Teaching Fellows with strong mathematics backgrounds. In the MfA DC program, Teaching Fellows obtain certification and teach for four years in Washington, DC, a high-needs school district, following an intensive 15-month period in a specially designed academic program that includes classroom experiences. Throughout the 5-year program, Fellows experience specially designed professional development, intensive mentoring, and expert support particularly at induction. The AU-SETH partner provides a Master of Arts in Teaching in Secondary Education: Mathematics, with emphasis on teaching math and the challenges of a high needs district. AU-M/S provides graduate level math courses, including a course focusing on secondary school math content. The AU program encompasses 18 credits in pedagogy, 15 credits in math content courses, and 500 hours of teaching and observing in the classrooms of outstanding secondary school math teachers. CASE is providing fundraising and organizational efforts (such as recruitment and mentoring and professional development during the four teaching years), and is coordinating activities with the MfA organization in New York. The participating district is providing Fellows the opportunity to observe and teach during their training and teaching years, cooperating in the certification process, and ensuring access to available teaching positions after the training year. The program is serving as a test of the idea that a teacher's deep content knowledge can enhance secondary school students' understanding and learning of math. The experiences of the Fellows are contributing important information concerning the pedagogical training and support needed to make STEM professionals effective teachers for high needs students. Findings are being shared with the local and national education communities through presentations at meetings and scholarly publications. The program goals address the national need to improve the education of disadvantaged youth so that they can complete high school, aspire to college and productive employment, and become contributing citizens. The program's association with the MfA program is, with other MfA cities, serving to amplify the impact and expand the data that can inform math education improvement nationwide.