CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
Maryland Collaborative for Teacher Preparation
MCTP Mentor Teacher Workshop
An Overview of the Mentor Teacher Workshop
One of the goals of the Maryland Collaborative for Teacher Preparation is
to develop an array of field experiences that support and enhance preparatory
content and pedagogy coursework and that reflect creative and effective
strategies for teaching mathematics and sciences. The critical factor in
achieving this goal is identifying teachers who exemplify outstanding mathematics
and science teaching and who are capable mentors for beginning teachers.
Thus, MCTP established a Mentor Teacher Workshop in the summer of 1995 to
lay the groundwork for establishing a network of experienced teachers and
field experience sites for the MCTP teacher candidates. The first workshop
in 1995 lasted 8 days, and in the summer of 1996 the workshop was conducted
again for a new group of teachers and lasted 10 days. A third workshop is
being planned for the summer of 1997. During the workshops the participants
experience some of the philosophy and practice of MCTP mathematics and science,
study research on mentoring and practice developing these skills, and receive
first-hand information about new directions in mathematics and science education
from national leaders of the mathematics and science reform movements. For
a summary of the past workshops and information about the 1997 summer workshop,
please go to the MCTP Mentor Teacher Workshop page.
The Center for Science and Mathematics Education
Administration Building, Rooms 214 & 215 (campus map)
Phone: 410 704 2532
Fax: 410 704 3959
email: CSME@towson.edu
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