Allied Delmarva Enhancement Program for Teachers
Contact: Drs. Harel Barzilai and Homer W. Austin, co-PIs.

Math ADEPT, the Allied Delmarva Enhancement Program for Teachers, is a suite of graduate-credit bearing, active-learning mathematics content courses with a middle school focus, designed to meet the professional development needs of inservice teachers. Math ADEPT was launched with generous support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC).

For more information, please see About Math ADEPT, a Flyer for Teachers and other school personnel which describes the nature, philosophy, and common threads of the program. See also the section about the ADEPT Courses in the left-hand menu.

The eight courses developed under Math ADEPT (6 NSF-sponsored, and 2 MHEC-sponsored) formed the basis of the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Middle School Mathematics (CMSM) degree, and also helped launch (and form the basis for the middle-school track of) the Masters of Science in Mathematics Education (MSME), the first Masters degree offered by SU's Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. The eight ADEPT courses are thus institutionalized, and integrated into the department's Graduate Programs. At the same time, the ADEPT program (and this website) are on-going projects for a variety of reasons:

• From time to time, Math ADEPT sponsors workshops such as the summer 2003 workshop for Delmarva teachers and administrators, and the summer 2005 Math ADEPT K-16 Collaboration workshop, in which groups of university teacher educators, teamed with K-12 teachers and administrators, came to SU from six states to learn about the ADEPT model.

• This website serves as a permanent resource for the mathematics education community, including teacher educators and others interested in founding programs similar to ADEPT. It serves as a repository of articles, tips on "lessons learned", and will also include key aspects of the history of the ADEPT program. In particular, see the ADEPT CRBs link in the menu on the left.

• We are in the process of updating the Discussion board, to serve as a forum for for teacher-to-teacher communication, support, and information sharing, as well as for asynchronous communications among others interested in ADEPT and similar professional development programs for mathematics teachings. See the Discussion Board in the menu on the left.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Support for Math ADEPT and the six Math ADEPT courses was provided by the National Science Foundation ESIE division, Teacher Enhancement program grant #5-28050. Support for Maryland Math ADEPT (MD-ADEPT) and the two MD-ADEPT courses was provided by the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) via Eisenhower funds, grant 4-30150. "This material is based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0101907." -- "Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation."