Preparing the Effective Elementary Mathematics Teacher

在美国国家科学基金会罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金项目的资助下，蒙特克莱尔州立大学将与莫里斯县学院合作，通过“培养有效的小学数学教师”（PE2MT）项目，培养数学专业本科生成为幼儿园到六年级的小学数学教师。该项目将在五年内为数学专业的学生提供30个奖学金。PE2MT奖学金项目教师候选人的经验将通过对高级内容课程的学术支持、丰富的方法和专业内容课程、早期和持续的面向社区的实地经验、本科研究经验、长期的在职入职支持以及培养社区和连接项目所有组成部分的研讨会来增强。PE2MT奖学金计划将培养30名新的小学数学教师，他们将在新泽西州的高需求学校任教。这些教师将毕业于一个独特的强化学位课程，除了他们的数学和教育课程要求外，还将参与一系列教学、心理和认识论转型的专业发展经验。本计划的目标是：招募高素质的职前小学教师从事有效的数学教学，培养高素质的职前小学教师从事高需求学校的有效数学教学，促进高素质的小学数学教师在高需求学校的留存。因此，该项目通过招募新的小学数学教师，为他们提供非凡的准备经验，并将他们安置在最需要他们的学校，从而扩大了代表性不足的数学群体的参与。此外，PE2MT项目将开展研究，旨在通过调查学士水平的数学知识对小学数学教学的潜在贡献，以及这些职前教师在学习为多样化的小学课堂教授数学时，他们的文化、社区和教学内容知识是如何发展的，从而更好地了解小学职前数学教师的准备工作。

With funding from the National Science Foundation Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program, Montclair State University, in collaboration with The County College of Morris, will prepare undergraduate mathematics majors to become Kindergarten thru 6th grade elementary mathematics teachers through its Preparing the Effective Elementary Mathematics Teacher (PE2MT) project. The project will fund 30 scholarships to mathematics majors over five years. The experience of teacher candidates in the PE2MT Scholarship Program will be enhanced by academic support for advanced content courses, enriched methods and specialized content courses, early and ongoing community-oriented field experiences, undergraduate research experience, prolonged in-service induction support, and seminars that cultivate community and connect all components of the program.The PE2MT Scholarship Program will produce 30 new elementary mathematics teachers who are well prepared to teach in high-need schools in New Jersey. These teachers will have graduated from a uniquely enhanced degree program that engages them in a range of pedagogically, psychologically, and epistemologically transforming professional development experiences in addition to their mathematics and education coursework requirements. The program goals are to: recruit high-quality pre-service elementary teachers for effective mathematics teaching, prepare high-quality pre-service elementary teachers for a career of effective mathematics teaching in a high-need school, and promote the retention of high-quality elementary math teachers in high-need schools. Accordingly, this project broadens participation to under-represented groups in mathematics by recruiting new elementary mathematics teachers to the profession, providing them with extraordinary preparation experiences, and placing them in the schools where they are needed most. In addition, the PE2MT project will undertake research that aims to better understand pre-service mathematics teacher preparation at the elementary level by investigating the potential contributions of bachelors-level mathematical knowledge to elementary mathematics teaching and how these pre-service teachers' cultural, community, and pedagogical content knowledge develop as they learn to teach mathematics for the diversity of elementary classrooms.