Joel Amidon

Episode 35: Crystal Kalinec-Craig: Engaging in Humanistic Practices in Field Experiences

November 19th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  40 mins 27 secs

Crystal Kalinec-Craig shares her experiences with teaching math teachers, and how she has benefitted from resources shared by colleagues. She recommends that mathematics teacher educators stay humble. Teaching during the pandemic is not normal, and she works to set the conditions for her class to let students be successful.

Episode 34: Yolanda Parker: Helping Teachers Develop a Relationship with Mathematics

November 12th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  25 mins 48 secs

Yolanda Parker shares how she helps her students, including prospective mathematics teachers, get more comfortable with their mathematical identity and develop a relationship with mathematics.

Episode 33: Nico Gomez: Foregrounding Issues and Questions to Work on Our Identity

November 5th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  41 mins 6 secs

Carlos Nicolas (Nico) Gomez shares some thoughts and questions from his work on mathematical identity to help teachers (including mathematics teacher educators) be more purposeful in their teaching. Nico also shares about his role as a member of TODOS: Mathematics for ALL, and the importance of groups within professional organizations that are based on particular expressions of identity (e.g., race) to help members navigate places of belonging within the profession.

Episode 32: Niral Shah & Daniel Reinholz: Observing Participation and Recognizing Equity

October 28th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  41 mins 45 secs

Learning to teach math teachers better with Niral Shah and Daniel Reinholz as we discuss their background in mathematics teacher education and their work with EQUIP, a customizable observation tool for tracking patterns in student participation, with the intent being to empower teachers in building more equitable classrooms.

Episode 31: Babette Benken: Serving and Leading

October 22nd, 2020  |  Season 1  |  27 mins 43 secs

leadership, mathematics teacher education, volunteering, writing

Babette Benken shares advice about serving in an organization, and also about how to prepare oneself to lead others. She also shares tips about writing for various AMTE publications.

Episode 29: Keith Nabb: Teaching Mathematics in a Two-Year College

October 8th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  29 mins 52 secs

Keith Nabb shares his experiences in preparing teachers and teaching mathematics in two-year colleges. He is interested in expanding the construct of Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching to early college mathematics, particularly in remedial and developmental mathematics settings.

Episode 28: Aris Winger: Finding Discomfort in the Hard Questions

September 30th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  35 mins 2 secs

Learning how to teach mathematics teachers better in this discussion with Aris Winger, Assistant Professor of Mathematics from Georgia Gwinnett College.

Episode 27: Carrie Cutler and Math Positive Mindsets

September 17th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  28 mins 16 secs

clinical faculty, elementary methods, parenting

Carrie talks about how being a parent of eight children has helped her become a better teacher of math teachers. She describes her journey to today, and offers good advice about being humble, creating routines, and maintaining connections with students.

Episode 26: Cathery Yeh: Advocacy in Mathematics Education and Beyond

September 10th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  31 mins 16 secs

Cathery talks about family activism, her family co-created their own nonprofit, a community-based Org, Los Alamitos Community United, and they in partnership with ACLU sued their own city. They won a lawsuit against the city's anti-sanctuary policies. In addition, they won the inclusion of ethnic studies curriculum implementation through K-12, as well as a High School graduation requirement. Cathery states that activism has transformed her view of mathematics education.  Cathery also co-authored the book re-imagining the mathematics classroom and talks about that. 

Episode 25: Lyndsi Hampton, a 5th-grade math and science teacher at Highland Elementary School.

September 3rd, 2020  |  Season 1  |  35 mins 8 secs

In our latest TMT podcast, we are talking with Lyndsi Hampton who is a 5th-grade math and science teacher and discusses various ways teachers can connect with students in their classroom, especially right now.

Episode 24: Math Ed Podcast: Alternative Field Experiences for Secondary Math Teachers

August 26th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  31 mins 52 secs

field experiences, math ed podcast, secondary math

In this cross-over episode, Sam Otten from the Math Ed Podcast talks with Michelle Cirillo and Kristen Bieda about alternative field experiences for secondary math teachers.

Episode 23: Jen Wolfe: Community building, Collaborative learning, and Resilient Teaching

August 19th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 56 mins

Listen in as Dr. Jen Wolfe shares a MEGA-Resource that she has put together since her last appearance on the Teaching Math Teaching podcast. In this episode we discuss community building, collaborative learning, technology tutorials, and sample tasks for teaching during COVID-19 and beyond.

Episode 22: Tiffany Tynes Curry: Discover voices, Find passion, Rewrite narrative, Create a culture in which everyone has something to contribute

August 12th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  36 mins 56 secs

In this episode, Dr. Curry, a former elementary mathematics teacher at Weinland Park Elementary and a current district instructional coach and leader, describes her four goals: Discover voices, Find a passion, Rewrite narrative, and Create a culture that everyone has something to contribute. Her goal is to utilize student voices, utilize their own thinking, as well as their identity.

Episode 21: July Summer Book Club - High School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice with Berry, Conway, Lawler, and Staley

August 5th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  39 mins 22 secs

Wrapping up the July edition of our Teaching Math Teaching Podcast Summer Book Club with a conversation about the book High School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice with the book's lead authors, Robert Q. Berry III, Basil M. Conway IV, Brian R. Lawler, and John W. Staley.

Episode 20: Theodore (Teddy) Chao: Technology, Twitter, and Balance in Teaching Math Teachers with Teddy Chao

July 29th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  34 mins 20 secs

Theodore (Teddy) Chao is Associate Professor, in the Department of Teaching and Learning, at The Ohio State University. In the episode we engage in a broad discussion of topics including technology, twitter and maintaining a healthy balance in doing the work of teaching math teachers.

Episode 19: Chris Bartlo: High School Math Teacher Discusses Math and Data Science in High School

July 22nd, 2020  |  Season 1  |  40 mins 20 secs

Chris is a High School Math and Computer Science teacher. Wilson, his school, is currently the only PPS high school offering a comprehensive Computer Science program. We have a "standard" 4-year program along with many opportunities for independent study/projects. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about what we do here and you are welcome to check out the links to the left to see more of what we do in class!
Chris also won the Paul Allen Distinguished Educator Award and Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching in 2017