A D E P T :
The Allied Delmarva Enhancement
Program for Teachers

• A grant-funded program of graduate math content courses for inservice math teachers, with a middle school focus (particularly elementary-certified teachers).

• Tri-state: Twelve counties on the Eastern Shore of Maryland ( 9 counties in MD, 1 in DE, 2 in VA)
  
  
• Collaboration between Salisbury University Mathematics and Education Department with Local Education Agencies.

• Unified program of 8 courses, offered for grad. credit
  
  
• Six courses funded by National Science Foundation (NSF), 2 courses funded by Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC). In third year of NSF grant, then on-going.

• Courses are Math content courses, but pedagogy is modeled/integrated. Content is linked to the middle school curriculum:
  • By the design of the syllabus topics/content
  • By incorporating/modeling best-practices pedagogy
  • Assessment; informal feedback; ADEPT faculty interactions with the Teaching Assistants (usually K-12 resource teachers or teachers)
  • Via the Modified Lesson Plans (MLP) assignments
  http://www.salisbury.edu/community/adept/ or http://barzilai.org/adept