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A Funded Project of the Nevada State Department of Education under Title II, part B
of the U. S. Department of Education’s Math and Science Partnership (MSP) Program
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Project MIST Description |
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Project MIST (Mathematics Interdisciplinary with Science using Technology) is a 3-year, $850,000 teacher professional development project. The MIST partnership consists of three entities that collaborate via the UNLV Center for Mathematics and Science Education (CMSE): the Curriculum and Professional Development Division of the Clark County School District (CPD/CCSD), the UNLV College of Education and the UNLV College of Sciences. Project MIST seeks to provide teacher development to integrated teams of teachers from fifth through eighth grades. Annually, Project MIST will provide a 2-week summer Institute for approximately twenty-five triads of teachers. Each triad will consist of a middle school science teacher, a middle school math teacher, and an elementary school teacher. Estimation & Classification, Constancy & Change,and Causation & Correlation are the annual themes for the summer Institutes. The participating teachers, recognized as MIST Fellows, will continue with graduate-level coursework during the academic year. Fellows will gain highly qualified status by earning graduate credits in mathematics/science and education. Project goals include development of a professional learning community, reformed teacher practice, and improved content knowledge for both teachers and their students. The theoretical model for Project MIST includes ten empirically supported guiding principles. Curriculum units will be grounded in the lives of students in the Las Vegas valley and use a series of driving questions to engage learners in a process of using evidence to support their knowledge and beliefs. Instruction in MIST classrooms will use multiple representations of data with technology to foster conceptual change. Supports will be included to accommodate all learners, with special attention given to English language learners. The professional development model for Project MIST includes the innovative use of real-time video conferencing during the academic year for all participants. Participating teachers will use the academic year to design and implement classroom-based action research projects in order to disseminate and validate the MIST principles. The evaluation of Project MIST will include documenting changes in knowledge, dispositions, skills and behaviors for both teachers and their students. |
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Interdisciplinary in·ter·dis·ci·plin·ary \-ˈdi-sə-plə-ˌner-ē\ (adjective) -Teachers from two or more disciplines pool their approaches and modify them so that they are better suited to the problem at hand. -Understanding a given subject in terms of multiple traditional disciplines. -Involves attacking a subject from various angles and methods, eventually cutting across disciplines and forming a new method for understanding the subject. A common goal of understanding unites the various methods and acknowledges a common or shared subject or problem, even if it spreads to other disciplines. 
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Project MIST UNLV Course Credit |
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| | Course | Topic | Credit | Instructor | Call Number | | Summer III 2008 | SCI 630h
SCI 620g
| Nanoscience | 3 | Orgill
Bellamo | Contact Dr. Orgill
Contact Dr. Bellamo | | Fall 2008 | CIS 707 | Models and Modeling | 2 | Crippen |
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| | Spring 2009 | CIG 700 | Classroom Inquiry I | 1 | Crippen | | |
| | | | | | | Summer III 2009 | SCI 630h
SCI 620g | TBA | 3 | | | | Fall 2009 | CIS 707 | MIST Topic II | 2 | | | | Spring 2010 | CIG 700 | Classroom Inquiry II | 1 | | | |
| | | | | | | Summer III 2010 | SCI 630h
SCI 620g | TBA | 3 | | | | Fall 2010 | CIS 707 | MIST Topic III | 2 | | | | Spring 2011 | CIG 700 | Classroom Inquiry III | 1 | | | | | | TOTAL | 18 | | | Course Specifics | Prefix | Number | Title | Cum. Hrs. Possible | | SCI | 630h | Middle School Science Content: <topic> | 9 | | SCI | 630g | Middle School Mathematics Content: <topic> | 9 | | CIS | 707 | Topics in Teaching Secondary Subjects: <topic> | 6 | | CIG | 700 | Classroom Inquiry | 3 | Course Registration and M.Ed. Information Teachers participating in MIST who wish to earn credit through UNLV must be actively enrolled as a UNLV graduate student. Course registration requires a call number. This call number information will be distrubuted by the instructors identified above. Contact the individual instructors via email for call numbers, then proceed through UNLV registration. All of the courses offered through project MIST are eligable for inclusion in an M.Ed. program in Curriculum and Instruction (C&I) through UNLV. Further informatin about the UNLV C&I department, its faculty and programs, and further contact information can be found on the Web (http://ci.unlv.edu). Requirements for Completion of M.Ed. Science Emphasis - The remaining coursework for completion of the M.Ed. can between concurrent or following the project MIST courses listed above. | Prefix | Number | Title | Credits | CIG
EPY | | Research - choose 3 hours
(CIG 705, EPY 702, EPY 703) | 3 | CIG
EPY | | Foundations - choose 3 hours
(CIG 703, CIG750, EPY 707, EPY 711, EPY 712) | 3 | | CIS | | Curriculum and Instruction - choose 3 hours
(CIS704, CIS705) | 3 | | CIS | 732 | Instructional Methods in Middle School Science | 3 | | CIS | 709* | Curriculum Development in Secondary Education: Science | 3 | | CIE | 737 | Applications of Technology in K-8 Science | 3 | | CIG | 715 | Curriculum and Instruction Culminating Experience | 1 | | | | TOTAL | 19 | *To be offered as a special session during spring 2009 for the MIST cohort. Mathematics Emphasis - The remaining coursework for completion of the M.Ed. can between concurrent or following the project MIST courses listed above. | Prefix | Number | Title | Credits | CIG
EPY | | Research - choose 3 hours
(CIG 705, EPY 702, EPY 703) | 3 | CIG
EPY | | Foundations - choose 3 hours
(CIG 703, CIG750, EPY 707, EPY 711, EPY 712) | 3 | | CIS | | Curriculum and Instruction - choose 3 hours
(CIS704, CIS705) | 3 | | CIS | 722 | Instructional Methods in Middle School Mathematics | 3 | | CIS | 709* | Curriculum Development in Secondary Education: Mathematics | 3 | | CIE | 727 | Applications of Technology in K-8 Mathematics | 3 | | CIG | 715 | Curriculum and Instruction Culminating Experience | 1 | | | | TOTAL | 19 | *To be offered as a special session during spring 2009 for the MIST cohort. Contact Information for Advisement UNLV Science Education Faculty participating in MIST and serving as M.Ed. program advisors: - Dr. Kent Crippen (
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UNLV Mathematics Education Faculty participating in MIST and serving as M.Ed. program advisors: - Dr. Jeff Shih (
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