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Appendix I: Biographical Information
Appendix I: Biographical Information
Pages 210-217
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She also has prior experience as a teacher in urban settings and as a teacher educator at the University of California, Berkeley, where her pioneering work with cases for teaching mathematics began in 1987. Her research focuses on the characterization anti growth of mathematics teachers' pe(lagogical content knowle(lge, as well as on methods for using cases as a professional (levelopment tool.
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Virginia Bastable has been the director of the SummerMath for Teachers Program at Mount Holyoke College since 1993. Prior to that, over the course of a twenty-five-year career as a secondary school mathematics teacher, she earned a Masters in mathematics and an Ed.D.
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. Bybee was principal investigator for several NSF programs including an elementary school program entitled Science for Life and Living, a middle school program entitled Middle School Science and Technology, a high school program entitled Biological Sciences: A Human Approach, and the college program, Biological Perspectives.
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His primary interests are in the teaching and learning of high school and undergraduate mathematics and in the preparation and professional development of mathematics teachers. Alice GiU is currently Associate Director, Educational Issues Department of the American Federation of Teachers; she was an elementary teacher in the Clevelan(1 public schools for twenty-four years.
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Her work on behalf of equity issues as well as her interest in improving mathematics e(lucation have involved her in a variety of projects including the MSEB's Making Mathematics Work for Minorities project. Preparing aspiring future teachers to teach school mathematics; teaching mathematics majors the language of mathematics; and exploring how students learn, understand, and achieve are her primary interests.
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Her teaching career started when, as a teenager in rural China, she was asked to teach elementary school. During her seven years as an elementary teacher she taught all five grades of elementary school.
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She co-authore(1 with Catherine Twomey Fosnot Reconstructing Mathematics Education: Stories of Teachers Meeting the Challenge of Reform, e(lite(1 a two-volume anthology of teachers' writing, VVhat's Happening in Math Class? and copro(luce(1 with staff anti participants of the Teaching to the Big Ideas project the professional development curriculum, Developing Mathematical Ideas.
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Tucker has led a number of studies about collegiate mathematics including the 1981 CUPM Recommendations for a General Mathematical Sciences Program and two recent NSF-sponsore(1 projects, Assessing Calculus Reform Efforts, and Case Studies in Effective Mathematics Undergraduate Programs. He was MAA First Vice President in 1988-1990 and has chaired the MAA Publications Committee and Education Council.
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