Developing Leadership - Middle School Mathematics Teacher   Education Project
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This two year urban and rural project will:                                                                                                                     o  design and pilot test an instrument to collect data to determine             middle school teachers' comprehension about middle school                       mathematical concepts and to construct mathematical profiles of these           teachers;                                                                                                                                                       o  use this instrument to conduct the interviews of urban and rural             middle school teachers;                                                                                                                                         o  construct in-service mathematics institutes, for teams of elementary           school teachers and principals, based on the teachers' profiles and           the principal investigators research on children's proportional                 reasoning and problem solving;                                                                                                                                  o  run the newly designed summer institute with academic year follow-up           in the urban and rural settings in which the teachers were tested.                                                                                            The principal investigators are Professor Thomas Post of the University         of Minnesota and Professor Merlyn Behr of Northern Illinois University.         The PIs will administer two types of written examinations and one oral          interview to teachers from the Minneapolis, Minnesota and DeKalb,               Illinois areas.  The examination topics will include concepts of number         and arithmetical operations, rational numbers, proportional reasoning,          geometry, probability and statistics, pre-algebra, problem solving and          technology.                                                                                                                                                     The PIs will develop and select those learning activities for the               teachers' institute which focus on higher order thinking skills and             understanding processes related to mathematical teaching.  The summer           institutes will run during the summer of 1988.  The academic year               follow-ups include several on-site visits and mini-conferences.
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{'Code': '7300', 'Text': 'TEACHER ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM'}
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