Learning to teach math teachers better as we wrap up the Teaching Math Teaching Podcast No Guilt Book Club - May 2021 Edition with a conversation about the book, Teaching Math at a Distance: A Practical Guide to Rich Remote Instruction with, the book's author, Dr. Theresa Wills. Teaching Math at a Distance by Theresa Wills (https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/teaching-math-at-a-distance-grades-k-12/book276245) Theresa's Website with book resources and Mathurdays videos (https://www.theresawills.com/...
Jun 30, 2021•49 min
Learning to teach math teachers better with Dr. Paola Sztajn and Dr. Dan Heck as we discuss their new book, Activating Math Talk, 11 Purposeful Techniques for Your Elementary Students. https://www.teachingmathteachingpodcast.com/48 Link to the the book, Activating Math Talk, 11 Purposeful Techniques for Your Elementary Students by Paola Sztajn, Dan Heck, and Kristen Malzahn https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/activating-math-talk/book263223 TMT Podcast Virtual Suggestion Box https://docs.google.com/...
Jun 17, 2021•38 min
Farshid Safi shares how learning experiences and life experiences should be connected. We are all influenced by our life experiences, where we are engaged in sense-making, exploration, adjusting, and working with other people towards a goal. These life experiences can inform, and be the setting for, learning experiences in mathematics. He advises us all to be at least as patient with ourselves professionally and personally as we would be with our students. Online resources mentioned in this epis...
Jun 03, 2021•31 min
Learning to teach math teachers better with Dr. Dorothy Y. White we extend the conversation around Dorothy's talk she gave in receiving the Karen D. King Excellence in Advocacy Award at the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators Annual Conference in February. Mentioned links in the episode: Cases for Mathematics Teacher Educators: Facilitating Conversations about Inequities in Mathematics Classrooms https://www.amte.net/publications/prof-book-series National Center for Faculty Development ...
May 20, 2021•43 min
Angela Barlow shares her insights about how we can use writing to share our ideas about teaching math teachers. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. We talk about the importance of being persistent, knowing your audience, and including laughter in your days. Resources mentioned in this conversation: Barlow, A. T. (2019). You can TOTALLY do it! Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Tea...
May 06, 2021•31 min
Kyle discusses various forms of LGTBQ+ inclusion in mathematics education. Mentioned links from the article MTLT article by Brandie Waid Vol. 113, No. 11, November 2020 Supporting LGBTQ+ Students in K–12 Mathematics (pp. 874-886) Brandie E. Waid https://doi.org/10.5951/mtlt.2019.0403 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5951/mtlt.2019.0403 Lesson: Listen to GLSEN from High School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice (free resource) Learning for Justice GLSEN htt...
Apr 29, 2021•26 min
Learning to teach math teachers better as we extend the conversation around Marta's Judith Jacobs Lecture at the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators Annual Conference in February. TMT Podcast Virtual Suggestion Box https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflSk_-4AvHf0K5Zr9inSynd0pHdF86kx90OLFpl03RvEUaow/viewform Special Guest: Marta Civil.
Apr 15, 2021•39 min
Megan Burton, President of the Association of Mathematics Teachers, has good advice for those wishing to influence the future of mathematics teacher education. She shares her story of how she came to be a mathematics teacher educator, and later the president of AMTE. Our conversation has two foci - becoming a mathematics teacher educator, and leading in mathematics teacher education. Megan offers several good bits of advice, including "We're all learning on this journey," and "We lead together."...
Mar 18, 2021•32 min
Wrapping up the AMTE Annual Conference Opening Panel Discussion, titled "2020. Perfect Vision? Perfect Hindsight? Are We Ready to Reimagine Mathematics Teacher Education?" with Dr. Naomi Jessup and Dr. Sandra Crespo. Reimagining the STEM Education Pipeline for Teachers of Color https://aaas-arise.org/2021/02/16/reimagining-the-stem-education-pipeline-for-teachers-of-color/ Heinemann Podcast: What We Do for the Love of Math with Heinemann Fellow Marian Dingle and Dr. Naomi Jessup https://blog.hei...
Mar 10, 2021•47 min
Theresa shares ideas and resources for online synchronous teaching. https://www.theresawills.com/ Special Guest: Theresa Wills.
Mar 03, 2021•32 min
Wrapping up the Teaching Math Teaching Podcast No Guilt Book Club with a conversation about the book, Reimagining the Mathematics Classroom Creating and Sustaining Productive Learning Environments with the book's authors, Cathery Yeh, Mark W. Ellis, and Carolee Koehn Hurtado. Links Reimagining the Mathematics Classroom Creating and Sustaining Productive Learning Environments (https://www.nctm.org/Store/Products/Reimagining-the-Mathematics-Classroom/) A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction (equi...
Feb 11, 2021•36 min
Learning how to teach math teachers better by discussing how to attend a (virtual) conference. The co-hosts of the podcast, Eva Thanheiser, Dusty Jones, and Joel Amidon, share their ideas about how to virtualy "attend" the 25th Annual Conference of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, and their general ideas about getting the most out of a conference experience. Links from the Episode AMTE.net https://amte.net/ Conference Program https://amte.net/sites/amte.net/files/2021AMTEConfPro...
Jan 27, 2021•38 min
Marrielle Myers shares her story of becoming a mathematics teacher educator, and gives good advice about choosing service opportunities that align with professional goals, and allowing space for things that come up during the year. When she was the coordinator for a large teacher preparation program, Marrielle noticed that preservice teachers of color were facing microaggressions that went unrecognized by their supervisors. She worked to create structural supports, supports for students, and tra...
Dec 10, 2020•36 min
Learning how to teach math teachers better by discussing the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE), getting a picture of what this year's AMTE annual conference (Thursday - Saturday, Feb 11-13, 2021 and Thursday - Saturday, February 18-20, 2021 ) will look like this year as a virtual event, and sharing why listeners to this podcast should attend. Also a quick note on the end of the episode about the #NoGuiltBookClub featuring Reimaginging the Mathematics Classroom by Cathery Yeh, M...
Dec 03, 2020•58 min
Crystal Kalinec-Craig shares her experiences with teaching math teachers, and how she has benefitted from resources shared by colleagues. She recommends that mathematics teacher educators stay humble. Teaching during the pandemic is not normal, and she works to set the conditions for her class to let students be successful. She hopes that the practices of caring she's using now will continue when we return to face-to-face instruction. Google Slide Deck (https://www.google.com/slides/about/) Jamb...
Nov 19, 2020•40 min
Yolanda Parker shares how she helps her students, including prospective mathematics teachers, get more comfortable with their mathematical identity and develop a relationship with mathematics. She advocates for the use of manipulative materials, and works to engage students in discussion to build their understanding. Yolanda is a Professor in the Mathematics Department at Tarrant County College, South Campus. In 2017, she was one of ten women selected by the National Society of Black Engineers D...
Nov 12, 2020•26 min
Carlos Nicolas (Nico) Gomez shares some thoughts and questions from his work on mathematical identity to help teachers (including mathematics teacher educators) be more purposeful in their teaching. These questions include "Who am I as a teacher?" "What should we be doing?" "Why should we be doing these things?" Nico also shares about his role as a member of TODOS: Mathematics for ALL, and the importance of groups within professional organizations that are based on particular expressions of iden...
Nov 05, 2020•41 min
Learning to teach math teachers better with Niral Shah and Daniel Reinholz as we discuss their background in mathematics teacher education and their work with EQUIP, a customizable observation tool for tracking patterns in student participation, with the intent being to empower teachers in building more equitable classrooms. EQUIP: An Equity-focused Classroom Observation Tool https://www.equip.ninja Racial Noticing Framework in Shah, N. & Coles, J. (2020). Preparing teachers to notice race i...
Oct 28, 2020•42 min
Babette Benken shares advice about serving in an organization, and also about how to prepare oneself to lead others. She emphasizes the importance of considering passions when pursuing leadership roles. Volunteering is a great way to see how your passions fit within the activities and goals of an organization. Within AMTE, she is the current Vice President for Publications. From this vantage point, she shares tips about writing for various AMTE publications, including Connections, Mathematics Te...
Oct 22, 2020•28 min
Stephanie Casey describes her path from a mathematics teacher to a statistics teacher to a teacher educator who teaches people to teach statistics. She provides some helpful distinctions between mathematics and statistics, and shares the details about some projects she is working on. She reminds us that statistics involves numbers in a context, and recommends that people who teach statistics get familiar with statistics standards and get up-to-date with technology. Furthermore, she encourages th...
Oct 15, 2020•22 min
Keith Nabb shares his experiences in preparing teachers and teaching mathematics in two-year colleges. He has involved his students as co-authors in research. One example is a recent article about the Condo Problem, published in the September 2020 issue of Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12 (Volume 113, Issue 9). Keith is also interested in expanding the construct of Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching to early college mathematics, particularly in remedial and developmental mathema...
Oct 08, 2020•30 min
Listen in as we learn how to teach mathematics teachers better in this discussion with Aris Winger, Assistant Professor of Mathematics from Georgia Gwinnett College. In the discussion we learn about how Aris uses his position and professional development opportunities to shape mathematics teaching toward a better, more just world. Books mentioned by Aris: Privilege, Power, and Difference by Allan G. Johnson How to Be an Antiracist (Random House Large Print) by Ibram X. Kendi If you have enjoyed ...
Sep 30, 2020•35 min
Carrie Cutler is an award-winning Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Houston. She talks about how being a parent of eight children has helped her become a better teacher of math teachers. She describes her journey to today, and offers good advice about being humble, creating routines, and maintaining connections with students. Carrie's book is Math Positive Mindsets: Growing a Child's Mind without Losing Yours: Amazon link (https://w...
Sep 17, 2020•28 min
Cathery talks about family activism; her family with others in her community created their own community-based organization, Los Alamitos Community United, and they in partnership with ACLU sued their own city. They won a lawsuit against the city's anti-sanctuary policies. In addition, they won the inclusion of ethnic studies curriculum implementation through K-12, as well as a High School graduation requirement. Cathery states that activism has transformed her view of mathematics education. Cat...
Sep 10, 2020•31 min
In our latest TMT podcast, we are talking with Lyndsi Hampton who is a 5th-grade math and science teacher and discusses various ways teachers can connect with students in their classroom, especially right now. She touches on • Homemade manipulatives • Place value chart • Hundreds-charts • Multiplication charts • Fraction bars • Creating videos and having students react to it • Youtube video with instructions to make the materials • Students could potentially create better videos • Youtube video ...
Sep 04, 2020•35 min
This is a special cross-over episode, where we share a recording from the Math Ed Podcast. Math Ed Podcast is hosted by Sam Otten, and is available on most podcast apps and also at MathEdPodcast.com (https://mathed.podomatic.com/) In this episode, guests Michelle Cirillo and Kristen Bieda discuss their recent article about alternative field experiences for secondary math teachers. More information about this episode is available at https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mathed/episodes/2020-08-17T11...
Aug 26, 2020•32 min
Listen in as Dr. Jen Wolfe shares a MEGA-Resource that she has put together since her last appearance on the Teaching Math Teaching podcast. In this episode we discuss community building, collaborative learning, technology tutorials, and sample tasks for teaching during COVID-19 and beyond. Links: Resources for Collaboration Google Slides presentation (featured in podcast/video) (https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1381dJRQfMwsSC6D2mjkKDNbOzfVHIfaXyw3qq25pMVg/edit?usp=share_link) Link to the ...
Aug 19, 2020•1 hr 57 min
In this episode, Dr. Curry, a former elementary mathematics teacher at Weinland Park Elementary and a current district instructional coach and leader, describes her four goals: Discover voices, Find a passion, Rewrite narrative, and Create a culture that everyone has something to contribute. Her goal is to utilize student voices, utilize their own thinking, as well as their identity. Special Guest: Tiffany D Tynes Curry.
Aug 12, 2020•37 min
Wrapping up the July edition of our Teaching Math Teaching Podcast Summer Book Club with a conversation about the book High School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice with the book's lead authors, Robert Q. Berry III, Basil M. Conway IV, Brian R. Lawler, and John W. Staley. Links High School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice (Use code 30FOR30 at checkout to get free shipping and 30% off) - https://us.corwin.com/en-...
Aug 05, 2020•39 min
Theodore (Teddy) Chao is Associate Professor, in the Department of Teaching and Learning, at The Ohio State University. In the episode we engage in a broad discussion of topics including technology, twitter and maintaining a healthy balance in doing the work of teaching math teachers. Associated Links/Links mentioned in the episode Teddy's website (https://theodorechao.com/) Radical Cram School (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPW9Ncg5SLWTKCleNRUVqI-sv9zxu57Fe) Special Guest: Theodore Cha...
Jul 29, 2020•34 min
