AMS-MER Workshop* on
Professional Master's Degrees in Teaching Mathematics:
Exploring Options in Teacher Education
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
RESCHEDULED: Thursday, October 18 - Saturday, October 20, 2001
The program for the workshop and the abstracts for breakout sessions will be available at the workshop, but preliminary versions are available here as pdf files
| The program | Abstracts for breakout sessions |
Workshop Program:
Almost daily, we read about the impending crisis of huge teacher shortages. The problem is especially acute in mathematics and science. In the 1960s many mathematics departments responded to an earlier crisis to improve the teaching of K-12 mathematics by offering summer institutes and master's programs in teaching mathematics, often with support from the NSF. Again, as the mathematics community is being called into action, master's degrees in teaching mathematics are an important instrument for engaging mathematics departments in the improvement of K-12 mathematics education. The workshop is designed to help departments implement new master's programs in teaching mathematics or revitalize and redesign existing programs. The program includes:
o mathematical, departmental, and policy issues relating to planning and implementing master's in teaching mathematics programs
o in-depth information about a variety of master's in teaching mathematics programs currently offered in mathematics/mathematical science departments, and the nuts-and-bolts of implementing and running these programs
o departmental models for designing and incorporating master's in teaching programs into the graduate program
o perspectives of graduates of master's in teaching mathematics programs and of other educators
In addition to the scheduled plenary and break-out sessions, there will be time throughout the workshop for informal discussions with the presenters and other participants.
Janet Bobango, University of Cincinnati
Charles W. Groetsch, University of Cincinnati
Carol Langbort, San Francisco State University
David Manderscheid, University of Iowa
David Minda, University of Cincinnati
Kimya Moyo, Cincinnati Public Schools
Stephan Pelikan, University of Cincinnati
Diane Resek, San Francisco State University
Lester Rubenfeld, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Phil Schmidt, Northern Kentucky University
Rosamond W. Welchman, Brooklyn College
* Funding for the workshop is provided by the National Science Foundation.