UNC researchers receive NSF grant for education project

GREELEY — Researchers at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley have received a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to create a pilot project to improve the development of elementary-school math teachers.

Math professor Jodie Novak and assistant math professor Frieda Parker, members of UNC’s mathematics faculty, will implement and evaluate a two-tier teacher leader development model, similar to the approach used in management. The project is intended to help understand the key characteristics of effective training.

Novak and Parker said the model has the potential to be used across science, technology and engineering education, in addition to math.

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The project is expected to begin Oct. 1 and end Sept. 30, 2018.

In addition to this grant, the researchers are involved in a separate NFS-funded project aimed at improving training for secondary-school math teachers.