Technical Assistance
- Comprehensive Regional Assistance Centers
The fifteen Comprehensive Centers are part of an emerging network of organizations providing educational assistance and information nationwide. Their role is to help states, school districts, and schools in meeting the needs of children served under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
- Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
The Clearinghouse identifies effective curriculum resources, creates high-quality professional development materials, and collects and disseminates all useful information and products in support of K-12 mathematics and science teaching and learning.
- Eisenhower Regional Consortia
The ten regional consortia help identify and disseminate promising and exemplary math and science instructional materials, provide technical assistance in implementing teaching methods and assessment tools for K-12, and collaborate with other organizations engaged in math and science education improvement.
- Regional Educational Laboratories
The Regional Educational Laboratories are educational research and development organizations supported by contracts with the U.S. Education Department.
Resources:
- Attaining Excellence: A TIMSS Resource Kit
This kit translates the Third International Math adn Science Study (TIMSS) findings into a format that helps foster discussions on ways to improve mathematics curicula and instruction. To order Call (202) 512-1800
or e-mail: orders@gpo.gov.
- Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) Web Site
This web site connects teachers, students, and parents to instructional and learning materials in mathematics and science from over 40 federal agencies.
- Gateway to Educational Materials Web Site
This web site is the key to one-stop access to educational materials--including mathematics--found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.
- Ideas that Work: Mathematics Professional Development
This Eisenhower National Clearinghouse publication describes 15 core professional development strategies for mathematics teachers and provides examples of successful programs that exemplify each strategy.
To order, call 1-800-621-5785, or e-mail: editor@enc.org.
- Ideas that Work: Science Professional Development
This Eisenhower National Clearinghouse publication describes 15 core professional development strategies for science teachers and provides examples of successful programs that exemplify each strategy.
To order, call 1-800-621-5785, or e-mail: editor@enc.org. - Learning from Assessment
This publication is a professional development tool that uses assessment items and examples of student work to better understand mathematics standards.
- Self-Assessment Guide for Improving Mathematics: Using Federal Resources for Improving Teaching and Learning of Mathematics.
This tool assists administrators in thinking creatively about the use of federal and other state and local resources for improving the teaching and learning of mathematics. It poses critical questions t districts to help them build concrete strategies for improving math instruction with federal resources.
- TIMSS Forum
- "Yes, You Can: Establishing Mentoring Programs to Prepare Youth for College"
This guide helps schools and other organizations establish high-quality mentoring programs. Many examples focus on mathematics and science. To order, call 1-877-4ED-PUBS
Last Updated -- September 26, 2000(gkp)