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KU CETP-PA Plan CETP-PA Goals: Science, mathematics, and teacher education courses taken by prospective teachers in State System universities address the content and use constructivist strategies contained in national and PA standards. Science, mathematics, and teacher education faculty in State System universities have the knowledge, skill, and commitment to teach courses that reflect the content and constructivist strategies contained in national and PA standards. Prospective elementary and secondary science and mathematics teachers graduating from State System universities have the knowledge, skills, and commitment to teach K-12 science and mathematics according to national and PA standards. Prospective elementary and secondary science and mathematics teachers enrolled in State System universities represent an increasingly large and diverse professional group according to race, ethnicity, and gender. Prospective teachers’ field experience is a well-integrated component of each State System University’s teacher preparation program as the program evolves during the CETP-PA project. K-12 teachers actively participating in CETP-PA sponsored activities in each State System university have the knowledge, skills, and commitment to teach mathematics and science that reflect the content and constructivist strategies contained in national and PA standards. State System universities support an infrastructure and culture that promotes excellence in the preparation of elementary and secondary mathematics and science teachers. CETP-PA meets or exceeds its milestones and performance benchmarks. CETP-PA Objectives: To change selected university content courses taken by education students to reflect research-based effective pedagogy. To supplement the math and science content of science and math education courses. To introduce the paired supervision of science and math student teachers by content and pedagogy specialists. To provide consistency in the experiences received by science and math education majors between their revised university courses, their field experiences, and their induction period. To increase the efforts at recruitment of public school students to pursue careers in teaching science and mathematics. CETP-PA Strategies: Consistent statewide collaboration and professional development activities coupled with local program initiatives. Establishment of Science/Math/Technology Centers linked together and with local institutions and public schools. Build a cadre of K-16 science and math teachers as leaders in their own educational setting. CETP-PA Outcomes:     Faculty from grades K-16 will team together to facilitate project outcomes, including: new and revised curricula at the basic education and university levels, team-teaching by science and education faculty at the State System universities, professional development in content and pedagogy for preservice teachers, university faculty, and public school teachers, strengthened field supervision and induction periods for new teachers, joint recruitment efforts to attract students to the teaching of science and mathematics. Curriculum Work Group Task: To compare and assess where the courses in each category are now relative to meeting standards and incorporating the constructivist philosophy. To decide the philosophy, principles and instructional strategies to be incorporated as elements of a model content and pedagogy course for each category. Supervision Work Group Task: To gather information from research and practice through NSF CETP and related projects and nationally recognized agencies (suggestions named in proposal). To identify models which show promise toward the most effective integration of field supervision into pre-service teacher education. To distill the findings and provide recommendations for implementation in PA. Recruitment Work Group Task: To collect and examine information relative to recruitment strategies from a variety of sources (suggestions named in proposal). To seek suggestions and recommendations from a variety of sources (suggestions named in proposal), To develop a shopping list from which State System universities can select improved or expanded regional recruitment strategies, To work with the Co-Principal Investigator for recruitment to lay the plans for implementing a major State System recruiting initiative.