Helping teachers of young kids gain confidence in math could be one key to unlocking America’s post-pandemic math recovery
. Educators say helping teachers in the early grades gain confidence in math could be one key to unlocking America's post-pandemic math recovery.
Teachers who doubt their math ability often worry they will transfer their math aversion onto impressionable students, educators say. At the Erikson Institute’s summer conference, teachers gained practice on concepts they’d use in their classrooms. They built large, 10-sided shapes out of colorful blocks, for example. The exercises benefited their own math skills, too.
It isn’t a coincidence that a lot of early elementary teachers lack confidence in their own math abilities, McCray said. Sometimes, that's why they go into early education in the first place.Avoiding high-level math courses was part of why Stacey Stevens switched her major to early childhood education in college. After she became a preschool teacher in Kentucky, she did a yearlong professional development session on math. Finally, she started to feel she truly understood how to teach it.
“If we prepared them better, they would be stronger at both their math content knowledge as well as their ability to teach math, and this would reduce their anxiety and improve student outcomes,” Peske said.
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