Mourat A. Tchoshanov

a. Highest Degree Earned

Kazan State Pedagogical University (Russia), Curriculum and Instruction, Ph.D. (1996)      

b. Current Appointment

2000-present          Associate Professor, Teacher Education, The University of Texas at El Paso (El Paso, TX)

c. Publications (Most closely related to the proposed project)

Tchoshanov, M. (2001). America Learns to Count: Innovations in the US School Mathematics. Riga, Latvia: Experiment.

Tchoshanov, M. (1996). Flexible pedagogical technology of problem-based modular instruction. Moscow, Russia: Narodnoe Obrazovanie.

Tchoshanov, M. (1993). Educational Technologies of Improvement of Students’ Critical Thinking: Teachers’ Manual. Kazan, Russia: Tatar Press (co-authors M. Makhmoutov, G. Ibragimov).

Tchoshanov, M. (2001). The role of representation(s) in developing student’s mathematical understanding. Theory into Practice: Realizing Reform in School Mathematics.  Vol. 40, #2. Pp. 118-127 (co-author S. Pape).

d. Synergetic Activities

2000–present          Center for Effective Teaching and Learning (CETaL) Fellow, University of Texas at El Paso (El Paso, TX), Research on Cognition and Visualization

2002-present          Eisenhower teacher training and professional development activity

2002                       Co-Director of the Texas Pre-freshman Engineering  Program (TexPREP) - an accelerated mathematics and science summer program.   

e. Honors and Awards

2003     Excellence in Scholarship Award, College of Education, UTEP (El Paso)

2001     Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Education, UTEP (El Paso, TX)

2000     CETAL Fellow, University of Texas at El Paso (El Paso, TX)

1994     International Fulbright Award, USIA (Washington, DC)

1994     Distinguished Professor, Tatar-American Regional Institute at Kazan (Kazan, Russia)

            f. Foreign Travel and Language Proficiency

• Russia, Netherlands, Greece, Japan, Bulgaria, Turkmenistan
• Fluent in English, Turkmen, and Russian