Posts of general interest to AMTE members and the public, some with limited time-frame of relevance.
Raleigh NC, June 07, 2019 – The Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) is excited to announce the selection of Executive Director Designate, Dr. Shari Stockero from Michigan Tech University, who will begin her term of service as Executive Director in February 2020...
Raleigh NC, June 24, 2018 – The Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) has as its mission to promote the improvement of mathematics teacher education, K-12. Recently, two highly respected mathematics educators, Dr. Eric Gutstein and Dr. Paul Ernest, have been criticized in a segment of the media for chapters in the volume The Philosophy of Mathematics Education Today, published by Springer as the 13th International Congress for Mathematics Education monograph...
Raleigh NC, January 11, 2018 – Albert Einstein said that everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. The scholarly community in general and scholars in mathematics teacher education in particular have been coming under attack by people who are oversimplifying important research being carried out, and often the result has been nothing short of vicious and personal attacks on the people producing this important scholarship....
Raleigh NC, October 26, 2017 – The Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) has as its mission to promote the improvement of mathematics teacher education K-12. In support of this mission, AMTE recently released volume 3 in their Professional Book Series, Building Support for Scholarly Practices in Mathematics Methods published by Information Age Publishing. A chapter in this volume (Political Conocimiento for Teaching Mathematics: Why Teachers Need it and How to Develop It) and its lead author, Dr. Rochelle Gutiérrez, have been criticized recently in the media for the chapter’s content....
The Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) recently released the first-ever comprehensive standards for the preparation of preK-12 teachers of mathematics. The Standards for Preparing Teachers of Mathematics (SPTM) are a national guide that provides a road map for mathematics teacher preparation and support.
Read the latest issue of Mathematics Teacher Educator, a scholarly journal co-published by AMTE and NCTM.
Starting in Spring 2014, the AMTE Web Team (Joe Champion, Tony Nguyen, and Tim Hendrix) has been working to update the web design and content management system for our website.
Working in collaboration with the AMTE Board of Directors and the many site contributors, the team expects most changes to be finalized during the first part of the 2014-2015 academic year.
We appreciate your patience and support as we work to improve the website.
The deadline for the Susan Gay Graduate Student Conference Travel Scholarships has been extended to July 15, 2014. If you have not already submitted your application, please do so in the next week. Click here to submit your application.
The Conference Program committee is currently reviewing submissions for the 2015 Annual AMTE Conference. For details on the review process, deadlines, and more, see the Call for Proposals.
Join AMTE for hors d'oeuvres and friendly company at the NCTM Annual Meeting on Thursday, April 10, 2014, 6:00pm-7:30pm at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Salon 19/22.
Please also stop by the AMTE Booth in the NCTM Exhibit Hall to visit, find information about affiliates, renew your membership, connect with other AMTE members, recruit new members, etc.