Math TLC Overview
  • NSF MSP Institute 5-year project
  • Joint project between
    – University of Wyoming 
    – University of Northern Colorado
    – 5 partner School Districts in Wyoming and Colorado
  • Develop 2 programs to serve the Rocky 
    Mountain West
    – Math TLC Master’s Program
    – Math TLC Teacher Leadership Program
     Math TLC Overview
     •  Teachers become content specialists 
        in their own practice in a master’s 
        program. 
     •  In the teacher-leader program they 
        become specialists in helping their 
        peers and in working at the district 
        and state levels to improve 
        mathematics instruction for all.   
     •  By separating the two strands of 
        professional development, we create 
        two access points for different types of 
        commitment to leadership 
        development. 
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    Math TLC Project Features
    • Collaborative            • Culturally Responsive 
      Master’s Program           Teaching
    • Collaborative            • Teaching for 
      Leadership Program         Understanding
    • Research Program         • Advancing 
                                 Mathematics Content 
                                 Understanding
                               • Advancing PCK
                               • Innovative Online PD
       Math TLC 
       Master’s Program
       •   Extend teachers’ content knowledge beyond the content they 
           customarily teach to students.
       •   Engage teachers in actively building their pedagogical content 
           knowledge (Shulman, 1987), enabling them to enlarge their 
           repertoire of pedagogical methods, skills and knowledge congruent 
           with Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM, 
           2000), the Colorado Model Content Standards (CDE, 2007) and the 
           Wyoming Mathematics Content and Performance Standards (WDE, 
           2003).
       •   Support teachers to evaluate and improve their teaching practice by 
           regularly engaging in lesson experiments and small-scale action 
           research projects. 
       •   Develop teachers’ knowledge, skills and disposition to effectively 
           teach math in a culturally diverse classroom.
     Math TLC Master’s Program
     •  32 credit hours over 2 or 3 years (third summer)
     •  Summer: 9 to 10 credit hours over 6 weeks (June-July)
         – Two content courses
         – One teaching course
         – Diversity or Assessment course
     •  Academic Year: 6 to 7 credit hours, one course per 
        semester and Action Research Seminar
         – One content course
         – One teaching course
         – Action Research Project seminars
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