The program is especially interested in helping practicing engineers and newly graduated engineers to bring their passion for solving challenging problems to enter
the mathematics teaching profession.
Not exact matches
Secondly, and even more importantly in the long term, the
teaching profession (and
mathematics teaching in particular) shares the problem of other industries in the paucity of qualified graduates and this can only be addressed by a concerted effort to raise the status of the
profession.
To be considered highly qualified as an elementary school teacher who is new to the
profession, you must also have demonstrated subject knowledge and
teaching skills in reading, writing,
mathematics, and other areas of the basic elementary school curriculum by passing a rigorous state test.
Recently, teacher preparation programs have been successful in graduating enough teacher candidates to keep pace with the increased demand for secondary science and
mathematics teachers (Ingersoll & Merrill, 2011); however, up to 50 % of these new teachers leave the
profession within their first 5 years of
teaching (Smith & Ingersoll, 2004).
The collective thinking of the
profession is best embodied in the
mathematics teaching subject associations, particularly
The purpose of teacher subject specialism training (TSST) is to improve the subject knowledge of non-specialist teachers and those looking to return to the
teaching profession, and increase the number of hours
taught in secondary
mathematics, core maths, physics and modern foreign languages.
Secondary math teachers who enter the
profession through TFA helped their students learn more in
mathematics than colleagues who entered
teaching through a less - selective fast - track program or a traditional, university - based program.
Through assigned readings, classroom discussions, content rich
mathematics activities, and assignments that require data collection in your field placement, you will be supported as you make sense of how to approach the
profession of
teaching.
He had carved out a brilliant career at the apex of the
mathematics profession, traveled, lectured,
taught, met the most famous mathematicians of his day, and become famous himself.