[RUME] Who should prepare H.S. math teachers?

[Cathy Kessel]

I was thinking of the MET Report also.

It can be downloaded from the web:

http://www.cbmsweb.org/MET_Document/index.htm

Cathy Kessel


On Mar 13, 2009, at 9:43 PM, Judy Sowder wrote:

> Thomas, I don't know where you could find an answer to your  
> question, but you might be interested in looking at "The  
> Mathematical Education of Teachers" from CBMS (and MAA and AMS)  
> published in 2000. (Every math dept in the country received a  
> copy.)The sections there on secondary preparation for teachers  
> focuses on what type of preparation they need to have, no matter  
> where the courses are located.
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> Judy Sowder
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> At 2:09 PM -0400 3/13/09, O'Malley, Thomas J. wrote:
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>> Does anyone have a reference to a written or oral statement from a  
>> group such as NCATE, NCTM, MAA, or CBMS, or a state education  
>> department concerning the desirability of having high school math  
>> teachers being prepared by mathematics versus education faculty?
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>> This issue has come up at my school with both departments making a  
>> good case on paper for their having control of this; each dept.  
>> currently has one person with previous HS math teaching experience.  
>> We are a small liberal arts college with a very crowded set of  
>> requirements for future math teachers.  For 80+ years we have had a  
>> single content-plus-methods course for preparing HS math teachers  
>> (there are separate content and methods courses for both elementary  
>> and middle school math).  There would be little tolerance for  
>> adding to student loads by having separate H.S. content and methods  
>> courses.  The math dept teaches this course; its graduates have  
>> long been praised as being the best prepared math teachers among  
>> those from area colleges.
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>> Dr Thomas O'Malley
>> Mount Union College
>> 1972 Clark Avenue
>> Alliance, OH   44641
>> omalletj at muc.edu
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> San Diego State University
> Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Education
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