Supporting Leaders in Elementary Mathematics Teaching in Missouri

在Robert Noyce教学奖学金计划的支持下，这个Track 3: Master Teaching Fellowships项目旨在满足国家招聘和培养高效小学数学教师的需求。该项目响应了国家对内容专家承担更多小学生教学责任的呼吁。它将通过为密苏里州的小学数学教师提供小学数学内容、教学法和领导力方面的专门培训来实现这一目标，这样他们就可以成为小学数学专家。该项目的教学硕士研究员将根据数学教师教育协会制定的标准完成为期两年的硕士学位课程。在完成硕士学位后，该项目将继续支持硕士教学研究员成为他们所在学校和地区的数学领袖。将进行研究，以记录教学硕士研究员的领导活动，以及使他们能够在当地环境中改善教学的结构和系统支持。该项目将从密苏里州哥伦比亚公立学校（Columbia Public Schools）和独立公立学校（Independence Public Schools）这两个高需求学区招募和选择24名有前途的小学数学教师，这两个学区是该项目的合作伙伴。教学硕士生将参与学校层面数学教学改革的广泛培训和实践。该项目将支持密苏里大学（University of Missouri）和中密苏里大学（University of Central Missouri）的数学与教育教师之间的合作，以及两个高需求学区和密苏里数学教师委员会。通过这些伙伴关系，教学硕士研究员将拥有研究当地教学问题的资源，帮助学校应对挑战，如选择数学课程和资源，支持个别教师使用高杠杆教学实践，开发教师合作结构，以及利用数据为改进数学教学提供信息。此外，研究将记录可持续模型的发展，通过正式和非正式的角色提供数学领导。它将在州和国家一级传播关于使用小学数学专家作为地区和学校改进战略的调查结果。Noyce计划支持有才华的STEM本科专业和专业人士成为高需求学区有效的K - 12数学和科学教师，以及经验丰富的模范K - 12 STEM教师成为STEM大师教师。它还支持对高需求学区K - 12教师的持久性、留任性和有效性的研究。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

With support from the Robert Noyce Teaching Scholarship Program, this Track 3: Master Teaching Fellowships project aims to serve the national need of recruiting and preparing highly effective elementary mathematics teachers. The project responds to national calls for content specialists to assume greater responsibility for teaching elementary students. It will do so by providing elementary mathematics teachers in Missouri with specialized training in elementary mathematics content, pedagogy, and leadership, so that they can become certified as Elementary Mathematics Specialists. The project's Master Teaching Fellows will complete a two-year master's degree program based on standards developed by the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators. After completion of the master's degree, the project will continue to support the Master Teaching Fellows in becoming mathematics leaders in their school and district. Research will be conducted to document Master Teaching Fellows' leadership activities as well as the structural and systemic supports that enable them to improve teaching and learning in their local contexts. The project will recruit and select 24 promising elementary mathematics teachers from two high-need Missouri school districts, Columbia Public Schools and Independence Public Schools, which are partners in the project. The Master Teaching Fellows will participate in extensive training and practice in the transformation of mathematics teaching at the school level. The project will support a partnership between mathematics and education faculty at the University of Missouri and University of Central Missouri, along with two high-need school districts and the Missouri Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Through these partnerships, the Master Teaching Fellows will have the resources to research local instructional problems, helping schools to navigate challenges such as selecting mathematics curricula and resources, supporting individual teachers in using high-leverage teaching practices, developing structures for teacher collaboration, and using data to inform efforts to improve mathematics instruction. In addition, the research will document the development of sustainable models for providing mathematics leadership though formal and informal roles. It will disseminate findings at the state and national level about the use of elementary mathematics specialists as a district and school improvement strategy. The Noyce program supports talented STEM undergraduate majors and professionals to become effective K - 12 mathematics and science teachers in high-need school districts and experienced and exemplary K - 12 STEM teachers to become STEM master teachers. It also supports research on the persistence, retention, and effectiveness of K - 12 teachers in high-need school districts.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.