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Mathematics Teacher Educator PodcastEpisode 48: Design Principles That Support Course Design Innovation for Elementary Mathematics Methods CoursesLearning to teach mathematics is a complex endeavor, requiring sustained focus and time. Yet time is especially scarce in elementary teacher education programs, where preservice teachers (PSTs) learn all content areas. Through a collaborative self-study, five teacher educators identified three time-related tensions in elementary mathematics methods courses: (a) teaching mathematics content and pedagogy; (b) connecting theory and practice; and (c) promoting social contexts in teaching mathematics. To address these tensions, we offer three design principles and illustrative examples: (a) addressing multiple goals for each course component; (b) developing PSTs’ dispositions over time; and (c) building on PSTs’ strengths to deve...
2023-06-0233 min
Teaching Like Ted LassoLive RetrospectiveDescriptionOn February 25, 2023, we hosted a live episode of Teaching Like Ted Lasso at the Math in Action Conference on the campus of Grand Valley State University. We showed clips from the first five episodes and heard from teachers how they saw their professional vision and practice connecting to the themes of those episodes: Play, Curiosity, Teamwork, Vulnerability, and Discourse.Video: https://youtu.be/C5Gy55STHoI Show Notes for Episode 6 LIVE RetrospectiveMath in Action: https://www.gvsu.edu/mathinaction/Dr. Brette Garner Keynote Information: https://www.g...
2023-03-0431 min