Support and Mentoring in an Alternative Route to Teaching (SMART)

SMART Utah将引进22名具有强大数学背景和对教学感兴趣的专业人士，以帮助弥合过渡过程中的障碍：将在监督指导下的研究员提升到高级教师的水平，同时满足地区增加高质量数学教师数量的需求。合作实体是：犹他大学数学系和教育学院；犹他州立大学数学系、教师教育与领导学系；犹他州教育办公室教师素质和执照司；美国数学（MfA）；帕克城数学研究所（PCMI）；以及约旦、花岗岩、盐湖和圣胡安学区。该计划的基础是：对数学内容的深入理解，数学各个领域之间的联系，数学与其他学科之间的联系；以内容为导向、灵活和包容的教学培训；在学校里建立永久性的专业学习社区，在那里教师可以不断地扩展他们的学习。在此基础上，教师可以向学生传递重要的数学理解，将课堂转变为学习社区。通过参与帕克城数学研究所，研究员们接触到当前的数学研究和数学教育研究，作为他们专业发展的一个组成部分。通过课程研究，他们根据自己的教学实践，以及从同龄人和学生那里得到的反馈，进行教学建设。通过USU建立的远程学习项目，以及遍布全州的卫星站点，该项目正在影响全州的教师和未来的教师。该项目与圣胡安县的一个数学教育中心合作，为犹他州的纳瓦霍族和尤特族提供服务。

SMART Utah is bringing 22 professionals with strong mathematical backgrounds and an interest in teaching into the profession in a manner that helps bridge the obstacles in making the transition: bringing the Fellows under supervised mentoring to the level of master teachers, while meeting the needs of districts to increase the number of quality math teachers. The collaborating entities are: the University of Utah Department of Mathematics and College of Education; the Utah State University departments of Mathematics and Teacher Education and Leadership; the Division of Teacher Quality and Licensure at the Utah State Office of Education; Math for America (MfA); the Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI); and the Jordan, Granite, Salt Lake and San Juan school districts. The bases of the program are: in-depth understanding of mathematical content, connections between various mathematical areas, and connections between mathematics and other disciplines; pedagogical training that is content-driven, flexible and inclusive; permanent professional learning communities in the schools where teachers can continually extend their learning. On these bases, teachers can transmit important mathematical understandings to their students, transforming their classes into learning communities as well. Through participation in the Park City Mathematics Institute, the Fellows are exposed to current mathematical research and to research in mathematics education as an integral part of their professional development. Through lesson study they undertake building of instruction informed by their teaching practices, and the feedback they receive from both their peers and students. Through the established distance-learning program at USU, with satellite sites throughout the state, the project is impacting teachers and prospective teachers state-wide. The project interacts with a mathematics education center in San Juan county, serving the Navajo and Ute nations in Utah.