Teaching Math Teaching Podcast

Learning to teach mathematics teachers better with Dr. Kyndall Brown, executive director at the California Mathematics Project, as he shares experiences and advice on being a mathematics teacher educator and discusses a book he co-authored with Pamela Seda, Choosing to See: A Framework for Equity in the Math Classroom. Links California Mathematics Project Choosing to See: A Framework for Equity in...

Learning to teach math teachers better as Dr. Jean Lee shares her experiences and advice on being a mathematics teacher/mathematics teacher educator and her work as chair of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators Get the Facts Out Task Force, which is a partnership between four national societies to change the conversation around STEM teacher recruitment. Links View the Agenda and Regist...

Learning to teach math teachers better with author and mathematics educator, Dr. Thierry Elin-Saintine as we discuss his experiences as an educator and his book, Racial Inequality in Mathematics Education: Exploring Academic Identity as a Sense of Belonging . Link to Dr. Elin-Saintine's book, Racial Inequality in Mathematics Education: Exploring Academic Identity as a Sense of Belonging . TMT Podc...

Learning to teach math teachers better as Dr. W. Gary Martin shares his experiences and advice on being a mathematics teacher educator and his work with Get the Facts Out, a partnership between four national societies to change the conversation around STEM teacher recruitment. View the Agenda and Register for the Get the Facts Out AMTE Pre-conference Get the Facts Out Mathematics Teacher Education...

Learning to teach math teachers better through an episode of The Transition Years. The Transition Years podcast focuses on the complexity and importance of the transition years, the last two years of high school and the first two years of postsecondary education, on the mathematics experiences of students. Listen in as Joel Amidon and Dr. John Staley provide an overview of the transition years, ke...

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 Theresa's Website with book resources and Mathurdays videos Global Math Dep...

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/e...

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 pro...

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 Cl...

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 t...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Theresa shares ideas and resources for online synchronous teaching. https://www.theresawills.com/ Special Guest: Theresa Wills.

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 A Pathway to Equitable...

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...

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 unrecog...

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 e...

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...

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, S...

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 imp...

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.nin...

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...

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 f...