The National Council on Teacher Quality has issued a new report which reports the results of their study of elementary math teacher education programs. According to the July 3 Inside Higher Ed, "A report released Friday by the National Council on Teacher Quality looked at 77 elementary education programs from all states but Alaska, examining the math courses elementary teacher candidates had to take. The report looked at three factors: “relevance,” the extent to which courses were relevant to what candidates would be teaching in the field; “breadth,” the degree to which “essential” topics are covered; and “depth,” if enough time was given to these topics.
Only 10 of the 77 programs scored adequately on all three criteria, according to the report,"No Common Denominator: The Preparation of Elementary Teachers in Mathematics by America's Education Schools."
Several appendices in the report offer rubrics for evaluating elementary mathematics textbooks, sample math course syllabi and sample practice teaching assignments.
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