MTCs featured in KQED MindShift
KQED News reports that Math Teachers’ Circles help teachers bring a sense of wonder and discovery back to math classrooms
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Math Teachers’ Circles were recently featured on KQED’s MindShift, a blog that explores the future of learning. The article, “How Playing With Math Helps Teachers Better Empathize With Students,” by Katrina Schwartz, focuses on a common theme among teachers who have participated in Math Teachers’ Circles: By placing themselves in the position of learner, teachers are able to empathize with their students more. “Unlike other professional development opportunities, the focus of these circles is not on lesson plans or pedagogy,” writes Schwartz. “Most of the time is spent working on and discussing a problem that the facilitators bring, with the hope that teachers will rediscover what they love about math and how it feels to be a learner.” The article profiles MTC leaders Michelle Manes (MTC Hawai’i), Sara Good (Crooked River MTC) and Heather Danforth (AIM MTC).
This article originally appeared in the Summer/Autumn 2017 MTCircular.
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