Earlier this month, I attended the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS) on Teaching Teachers in the Era of the Common Core. Parts of the presentations are available on their conference website.
We all need to think about what we can do to help to grow the mathematical learning community that will help our students become the learners we would like them to be. There were some interesting speakers. Sybilla Beckmann, Aaron Orsick and others had some wonderful thoughts today about not only growing professional leaning communities pre-k to 20 and above around mathematics learning but growing teachers as professionals.
It is clear we need to think well-beyond our own classroom and to think about how we can reach out and help others, collaborate with others, learn from others, ... the vision many folks mentioned were thinking well-beyond pre-k to 20 to include math educators and mathematicians. In some communities, there is already collaboration between different grade levels (or levels of experience) of teachers and/or college professors of mathematics. Collaboration between teachers and the mathematical community -- each have something to learn from the other. Is this something we can be doing here in Somerville?
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