Teachers Empowered to Advance Change in Mathematics (TEACH MATH): Preparing preK-8 Teachers to Connect Children's Mathematical Thinking and Community-based Funds of Knowledge

这项研究和开发项目将修改教师准备计划preK-8教师在六所大学位于美国的不同地区的新计划旨在帮助职前教师学习数学好，学会访问学生的知识文化基金的方式，这将有助于他们教数学，并学会鼓励学生的数学思维。通过整合这些重要的知识体系，职前教师应该更好地准备教数学的各种学生在他们的班级。开发人员正在设计（a）可用于教师准备课程的模块，（B）新教师指导计划，以及（c）促进参与教师和机构之间合作的在线网络，该项目包括研究职前教师如何学习应用他们在该计划中获得的知识。研究小组计划纵向收集数据，跟踪职前教师的职业生涯。他们的目标是记录教师对儿童数学思维和儿童知识文化基金的理解，并了解教师的理解与学前班学生的学习和性格之间的关系。这项研究将在所有六所大学实施，错开开始日期，以便在不同的队列之间进行分析和修订。这些研究和开发工作有可能通过以下方式影响学前教育教师的准备：（1）开发模块，将数学教学中的几个相关专业整合起来，以及（2）研究这种计划对学前8年级学生数学学习和性格的影响的研究。

This research and development project will modify the teacher preparation program for preK-8 teachers at six universities located in different regions of the U.S. The new program is designed to help pre-service teachers learn mathematics well, learn to access students' cultural funds of knowledge in ways that will help them teach mathematics, and learn to encourage students' mathematical thinking. By integrating these important bodies of knowledge, pre-service teachers should be better prepared to teach mathematics to the variety of students in their classes. The developers are designing (a) modules that can be used in teacher preparation courses, (b) a mentoring program for new teachers, and (c) on-line networks to facilitate collaboration among participating teachers and institutions.The project includes a study of how pre-service teachers learn to apply the knowledge they have gained in the program. The research team has planned a longitudinal collection of data that will track the pre-service teachers into their careers. Their goal is to document teachers' understandings of children's mathematical thinking and children's cultural funds of knowledge and to understand the relationship between teachers' understandings and the learning and disposition of preK-8 students. The study will be implemented at all six universities with staggered start dates allowing for analysis and revisions between cohorts.These research and development efforts have the potential to impact preK-8 teacher preparation through (1) the development of modules that integrate several relevant proficiencies in mathematics teaching, and (2) the research that studies the impact of such a program on the mathematical learning and disposition of preK-8 students.