T.M.T. Project Overview
Sponsored by the
NJ
Department of Education's
P-12 Higher Education/Public School Partnership grant program,
the Center for Innovation in Engineering and
Science Education (CIESE) at
Stevens
Institute of Technology and the
Piscataway Township Schools (PTS)
are collaborating to build a strong foundation to improve 6th, 7th, and 8th
grade mathematic student achievement and teacher instruction in middle
school mathematics.
Through a
comprehensive program of ongoing teacher professional development,
in-class support that focuses on effectively integrating technology into
teaching and learning, and curriculum alignment to the district's curriculum
and the
New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, this partnership focuses on
achieving the following three (3) project goals:
- improve
teacher practice via workshops, teacher mentoring, and web-based support,
using exemplary, field-tested, technology-based lessons designed to
bolster teachers' content knowledge, instructional delivery, and student
understanding of core topics in middle school mathematics;
- use
engaging technology resources that promote visualization of complex
concepts and which demonstrate the relevance of mathematics to real-world
issues and topics; and
- integrate technology-based learning activities with the district approach to a standards-based, articulated
curriculum for grades 6-8 mathematics, based on the principles contained in
Understanding by Design (Wiggins, 1998).
This project is a
one-year initiative that will directly involve a select group of
classroom teachers from
each of the following three middle schools in the
Piscataway Township Schools (PTS): Conackamack
Middle School,
Quibbletown Middle School,
and Theodore Schor
Middle School.
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