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Peck, Frederick A.; Erickson, David; Feliciano-Semidei, Ricela; Renga, Ian P.; Roscoe, Matt; Wu, Ke – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2017
Math Teachers' Circles (MTCs) bring math teachers and university mathematicians together to engage in collaborative mathematical activity. Currently there are over 110 MTCs across 40 states. A key claim is that MTCs are "communities of practice." However, to date there has been no research to substantiate this claim. In this paper, we…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Activities, Teacher Collaboration, Communities of Practice
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Bansilal, Sarah; Webb, Lyn; James, Angela – South African Journal of Education, 2015
With the advent of the Minimum Requirements for Teacher Education Qualifications policy (MRTEQ), higher education institutions (HEIs) are rethinking curricula for teacher training in order to enable entree for in-service teachers to reskill, retrain and have access to higher qualifications. In the field of mathematical literacy (ML), most teacher…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Numeracy, Teacher Education Programs, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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McClure, Megan; Fuhrman, Nicholas E. – Journal of Extension, 2011
In an effort to provide graduate students at a distance with field-based learning experiences and evaluation resources to statewide Extension programs, 24 Master's students participating in a distance-delivered program evaluation course served as evaluation consultants for Extension programs. State evaluation specialists unable to conduct…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Program Evaluation, Consultants, Extension Agents