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Akihiko Takahashi Asia-Pacific Mathematics and Science Education Collaborative (AP•MSEC)

Issues and Trends in Mathematics Teacher Education International Workshop on Graduate Programs for Secondary Mathematics Teachers. Akihiko Takahashi Asia-Pacific Mathematics and Science Education Collaborative (AP•MSEC) DePaul University. Education in the U.S.

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Akihiko Takahashi Asia-Pacific Mathematics and Science Education Collaborative (AP•MSEC)

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  1. Issues and Trends in Mathematics Teacher EducationInternational Workshop on Graduate Programs for Secondary Mathematics Teachers Akihiko Takahashi Asia-Pacific Mathematics and Science Education Collaborative (AP•MSEC) DePaul University

  2. Education in the U.S. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics.

  3. Issues in Mathematics Teacher Preparation in Illinois • The Need for highly qualified teachers • Study of how students learn • Study of effective curricula • Study of teacher knowledge and expertise • Improving Teacher preparation • Issues in teaching mathematics in middle school grades • Self-contained or departmentalized

  4. The Need for highly qualified teachers

  5. No Child Left Behind Act 2001 The purpose of this title is to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging State academic achievement standards and state academic assessments. This purpose can be accomplished by — • ensuring that high-quality academic assessments, accountability systems, teacher preparation and training, curriculum, and instructional materials are aligned with challenging State academic standards so that students, teachers, parents, and administrators can measure progress against common expectations for student academic achievement; • Cont…

  6. Highly Qualified Teachers • The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation defines “highly qualified teachers” as teachers who have a bachelor’s degree and full state certification or licensure. • But teaching mathematics well demands much more. Mathematics teaching at any level requires that teachers have an extensive knowledge of mathematics, including the specialized content knowledge specific to the work of teaching, as well as a knowledge of the mathematics curriculum and how students learn. • NCTM expects that……… http://www.nctm.org/about/content.aspx?id=6364 • Teacher Quality Partnership Grants

  7. Study of Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching

  8. The National Council on Teacher Quality: A Review of Illinois Teacher Preparation http://www.nctq.org/edschoolreports/illinois/

  9. Summary performance of Illinois teacher preparation programs http://www.nctq.org/edschoolreports/illinois/docs/illinois_report.pdf

  10. …… Concerning our grades for 111 programs (housed in 53 institutions), only one program earns a grade of A- (undergraduate secondary at Northwestern University), nine programs rise to the top with B grades, 39 fall in the middle with grades in the C range, 43 are unacceptably weak, and 16 fail. • ……. looking at core content areas, mathematics preparation is inadequate across the board and reading preparation is inadequate in the special education programs at both degree levels. http://www.nctq.org/edschoolreports/illinois/docs/illinois_report.pdf

  11. Issues in teaching middle school mathematics in Illinois

  12. Student-teacher ration by levelUNESCO 2009

  13. Student-teacher ration by levelUNESCO 2009

  14. Teaching Certificate Types and LevelsIllinois 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 K High School Secondary (6-12) Elementary (K-9) Elementary School Early Childhood (Birth – Grade 3)

  15. The need for Mathematics TeachersWhat should the graduate Programs focus on? • Moving promising research results into practice • developing skills to effectively access to the research-based information about teaching and learning mathematics • Understanding how to examine the effectiveness of the interventions • Becoming a teacher researcher • Developing skills to design and conduct classroom research • Knowing the process of publishing research articles in the professional journals

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