Successful Math Instruction Project Expanded and Extended
The Improving Teacher Quality (ITQ) project team, Cynthia Anhalt (Mathematics) & Erin Turner, (Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies), from the University of Arizona has been awarded an additional $45,000 and a project extension through Sept. 30, 2014, to more than triple the number of teachers in its summer math-practice professional development program.
The Southern Arizona Math Initiative (SAZMI) project’s initial math-instruction training, built around the national Intel Math curriculum, proved so popular that the team requested an extension to offer a summer program to help meet the demand from teachers in rural and outlying districts in southern Arizona. The 30-hour summer institute will focus on the mathematical practice standards of the AZ College and Career Ready Standards, via rigorous math problem-solving tasks. Originally slated for 25 teachers, the summer program was again expanded to 78 teachers when word spread and interest continued to grow. The $45,000 add-on award makes for a total of $83,000 funded by the AZ Board of Regents (ABOR) for projects to improve teaching in K-12 core subjects through K-12 and higher education partnerships.
Instructors will include Cynthia Anhalt, Rebecca McGraw, Janet Liston, and Priya Prasad from the Mathematics Department, and Erin Turner and Courtney Koestler from the Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies department.
The response has been “incredible,” project co-leaders Erin Turner and Cynthia Anhalt noted, with more than 300 applications for the 78 slots.
This announcement is from ABOR President Eileen Klein’s weekly brief.
Cynthia Anhalt
Director, Secondary Mathematics Education Program
Member of the Graduate Faculty
Erin Turner