Mathematics Improvement Initiative

数学改进计划

• 批准号: 8751739
• 负责人: James Bryson
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Three Rivers Regional Education Service Agency
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-07-01 至 1991-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8751739&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Mathematics; Improvement; Initiative

This is a three year project aimed at the elementary and junior high school teachers in six Appalachian counties of northeast Mississippi. The project involves administrators, supervisors, coordinators, and teachers from 52 schools representing 14 rural school districts. The administrators receive the equivalent of three full days of orientation and instruction to give them familiarity with the trust, scope, and expectations of the project. Some of these activities are funded from external sources. During the first summer the supervisors are involved in over 100 hours of workshop experiences to enable them to prepare their own workshops for teachers in their districts. The participants are to establish a mathematics resource center and laboratory in each of the 52 elementary and junior high schools in which they will conduct inservice sessions that extend the workshop to other teachers at their schools. Also, there is a component involving parents as well as business and industrial leaders in the communities. The second and third summers of the project place emphasis on developing master teachers who are to serve as resource personnel at the targeted schools. The mathematics content of the courses is a blend between skill building and problem solving and covers the main topic areas in the school program. There are, for example, sessions underlying arithmetic topics as well as geometry and pre-algebra. The pedagogical component includes sessions on diagnosis, remediation, and methods of materials development. Follow-up activities during each of the intermediate years have the staff helping the leaders and master teachers conducting staff development sessions for other teachers in the districts. These activities take place primarily in the resource centers.

这是一个为期三年的项目，针对密西西比州东北部阿巴拉契亚六个县的小学和初中教师。 该项目涉及来自 14 个农村学区 52 所学校的管理人员、主管、协调员和教师。管理员将接受相当于三天的培训和指导，以熟悉项目的信任、范围和期望。其中一些活动是由外部来源资助的。在第一个夏天，督导人员参加了 100 多个小时的研讨会，使他们能够为所在地区的教师准备自己的研讨会。参与者将在 52 所小学和初中的每所学校建立一个数学资源中心和实验室，并在其中举办在职课程，并将讲习班扩展到学校的其他教师。此外，还有一个部分涉及家长以及社区中的商业和工业领袖。该项目的第二个和第三个夏天的重点是培养在目标学校担任资源人员的名师。课程的数学内容融合了技能培养和问题解决，涵盖了学校课程的主要主题领域。 例如，有算术主题以及几何和预代数基础的课程。教学部分包括诊断、补救和材料开发方法的课程。在每个中间年份的后续活动中，工作人员都会帮助领导者和大师级教师为学区的其他教师举办员工发展课程。这些活动主要在资源中心进行。