MSP Workshop: Teacher Education for Effective Teaching and Learning, February 6-8, 2005
Description
The National Academies is pleased to be working with the National Science Foundation (NSF) and NSF grantees of the Mathematics and Science Partnership (MSP) program. NSF has provided funding to the National Research Council's Center for Education (CFE) and the National Science Resources Center (NSRC, an organization that is operated jointly by the National Academies and the Smithsonian Institution ) to assist MSP grantees and potential applicants. CFE and NSRC will host a series of annual workshops for partnership teams. These workshops will support and encourage grantees and applicants to implement evidence-based research in their partnerships' efforts to boost mathematics and science student achievement. The workshops will be based upon a series of reports that the National Research Council (NRC) has produced on a variety of pressing issues in education.The workshop on "Teacher Education for Effective Teaching and Learning" will take place on February 6-8, 2005 at the Beckman Center in Irvine, CA .