Critical Issues In Mathematics Education 2011: Mathematical Education of Teachers, lecture 15 - Closing comments
Presenter
May 13, 2011
Keywords:
- mathematical policy
- mathematical curriculum
- teacher education
- teaching
- common core standards
MSC:
- 97B50
- 97B10
- 97Bxx
- 97-xx
- 97D40
Abstract
Acceptance by the States of the Common Core Mathematics Standards represents a once‐in‐a‐lifetime opportunity for mathematics teachers to enhance their professional status much in the same way that university mathematicians did during the post‐Second World War era. Mathematics teachers themselves will have to drive this process‐‐numbers of teachers are too big, and the interests of other constituencies too compromised, for it to be otherwise. But the university community and government, among others, can help in essential ways. Those include programs for teacher‐leaders and teacher professional developers, and the nurturing of 'laboratories of excellence.'