Math Specialists

CALL TO ACTION: Business & Educational Partnerships

Encouraging Business and Educational Partnerships for Teacher Preparation (Fast Track for people already with Bachelor's degree). Moderators: Dr. Juli Dixon (jkdixon@mail.ucf.edu) and Dr. Enrique Ortiz (ortiz@mail.ucf.edu)

If you have information on this topic, please email the moderators.

1.  The Lockheed Martin/University of Central Florida Academy for

Mathematics and Science is an education/industry/community partnership

aimed at improving mathematics, science and technology education in

central Florida. This unique partnership serves as a model for the

educational reforms proposed by both national and state agencies by

providing schools in Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties with

teacher-leaders who initiate, implement and sustain mathematics and

science reform efforts. This innovative model could only be initiated

and sustained through the visionary leaders at Lockheed Martin and the

University of Central Florida.  For more information please visit the

following website:

http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~lmacad/about/home.html

2.  The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)

awarded the University of Central Florida a Christa McAuliffe Award for

Excellence in Teacher Education at its annual meeting today, Nov. 22,

in Charleston, S.C.:

http://news.ucf.edu/UCFnews/index?page=article&id=002400411cf2c030ffac563ca9007574

3.  The Transition to Mathematics and Science Teaching (T-MAST) is one of

the programs associated with the Lockheed Martin/UCF Academy.  T-MAST

is an innovative, fast track, four semester graduate program for

professionals who wish to transition into middle grade teaching:

http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~lmacad/T-MAST/home.html

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