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UIC-CC CETP |
UIC—Community College Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation |
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| Mentoring
and Induction
Teachers Making Change Project (TMCP) is an induction and mentoring project. Serving beginning teachers in Chicago and two collar suburbs, the project objectives focus on helping new teachers transform reform-minded curricular and instructional reasoning, learned in their teacher preparation programs, into their classrooms. Through small group work with peers and a mentor, the beginners learn to negotiate the expected curriculum, the limited resources they have, and their beliefs in what reform-based science and math could become in their classrooms. The overall goals of TMCP are to retain quality teachers of science and mathematics in the profession. One main focus of TMCP is on curricular resources. Particularly, we
help beginners find, plan for, and use varied curricular resources for
math and science teaching. We create an educative process for beginning
teachers to consider the kinds of materials necessary to support reform-minded
curriculum and instruction in science and mathematics learning and teaching.
Small groups meet in summer work sessions on the UIC campus as well as
in the schools and classrooms where beginners and mentors work. Workshops
and conferences (e.g., teaching math, science and English as a second language)
throughout the academic year, mentor visits to classrooms, and electronic
and phone conversations provide additional times for academic as well as
socio-psychological support to beginning teachers.
UIC—University of Illinois at Chicago |
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