Childhood Education Teacher (1-6) - Mathematics (Option A), M.S. in Ed.
Student Learning Outcomes
By the end of the program our candidates will:
- Demonstrate knowledge of State and National standards to teach elementary mathematics and apply these into their own practice
- Demonstrate ability to anticipate, observe, analyze and interpret, reflect upon, and assess student mathematical work and design instruction that fosters learning of all their students.
- Demonstrate ability to differentiate instruction to make mathematics accessible to all students.
- Demonstrate understanding of how mathematics teaching is connected: across curriculum strands, across other school subjects, throughout all grade levels, to the uses and applications of mathematics in out-of-school contexts, and to family and community cultural resources.
- Demonstrate ability to reflect on their teaching practices to improve teaching and learning and to plan for further professional development.
- Demonstrate ability to locate, analyze, select, use and create technology for teaching and learning mathematics at the elementary grades.
- Build pedagogical content knowledge of school mathematics topics by examining and synthesizing relevant, recent mathematics education research and curricular approaches to various topics.
- Build ability to examine student’s learning by designing and conducting cognitive clinical interviews. They will be able to defend the rationale of the interviews protocol and describe the interviewee’s mathematical thinking and understanding. They will be able to evaluate the effectiveness of types of questions and tasks.
- Demonstrate ability to study the vertical flow of certain mathematical topics of their choice across the elementary grade levels. They will be able then to use this analysis to plan and conduct a lesson study related to the same topic.
- Formulate research questions and write a related preliminary literature review and conduct action research to answer their research questions by collecting and analyzing data.
- Demonstrate deep understanding of different strands of mathematics
- Solve mathematical problems in a variety of ways, justify their solutions and discuss their strategies.
