A 1956 New York Times article details a report from the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, revealing that in elementary and secondary school, mathematics earned the title of “the most hated ...
Teacher residency programs are transformative models for preparing educators for the K-12 teaching experience. These clinically-rich, immersive programs combine mentorship, year-long co-teaching in ...
About seven years ago, some friends who had high school-age children urged me to attend a meeting to discuss our district’s math curriculum, called College Preparatory Math (CPM). Until then I hadn’t ...
A Few More Teacher Reflections: “I think that it should be part of every teacher’s repertoire, every so many years to record yourself….I know how important it is to take a look at that videotape and ...
Secondary teacher candidates in this program have typically declared a major suitable for the subject they want to teach. By pairing a focus with your teacher licensure, you will gain added knowledge ...
The new “question-of-the-week” is: What do math teachers view as their biggest challenges and how can they best respond to them? All of us educators face challenges. This series will explore what ...
Math is fundamental. This observation is a groan-inducing cliché, but it’s also true. Math matters for employment, financial literacy, and even for navigating evidentiary claims about things like ...
President Obama earlier this year announced a new initiative, “Computer Science for All,” to empower a generation of American students with the computing skills they need to thrive in a digital ...
The Middle School Mathematics Licensure Program is an innovative new track for non-math majors interested in teaching mathematics in the middle grades 6-8, an area of high demand across Colorado ...
Math teachers love mathematics and understand it well, but much more than that, they enjoy sharing their enthusiasm for the language of numbers with students. Math teachers use a variety of tools and ...