Crossing Boundaries to Transform Secondary Mathematics Teacher Education

More often than not, organizations, school systems, and collegiate faculty-led funded projects are working on similar transformative efforts at the same time in isolation without convening to understand what each other are doing and how they could leverage each other's work. The Mathematics Teacher Education Partnership 2.0 [MTEP 2.0] is trying to make inroads toward changing this predicament for those entities working toward transforming secondary mathematics teacher education. We believe that bringing members from different parts of the mathematics education ecosystem together, such as the ones mentioned above can help us collectively redesign secondary mathematics teacher preparation programs based on our Updated Guiding Principles for Secondary Mathematics Teacher Preparation and address the significant national shortage of well-prepared secondary mathematics teachers through a coordinated research, development, and implementation effort.

The partnership takes a comprehensive approach to tackling this challenge of convening community colleges, universities, and university systems, as well as K-12 schools, state departments of education, and other education-focused organizations. Further, it aims to support the improvement of secondary mathematics education programs; promote partnerships among all sectors throughout the teacher development process, with a focus on promoting program transformation; develop and coordinate a networked research and development agenda; serve as a clearinghouse for model programs and practices; and advocate for change at university, state and national levels.

Organizations that have similar goals to MTEP 2.0 have been invited to become partners of MTEP 2.0 to expand the mutual impact of our work. In this session, we will share how we are working with our partners to enact changes in specific aspects of secondary mathematics education. We will share what we have been doing and the issues that we are discussing in the first 30 minutes, followed by a question and answer period.