Mhm okay, go ahead and talk about the program. The Mathematics Education program at Virginia
Tech is unique because we have faculty undergrads and graduate
students in the School of Education as well as the
Math department and we take advantage of that as a
faculty by networking to other colleges and the other departments
in the College of Science such as Psychology and Physics.
We network to other faculty in the School of
Education, such as faculty in special education and the
learning sciences. Uh, for our undergraduate students, we take advantage
of that by preparing them very strongly in mathematics and
then they go on into the School of Ed to
complete a masters degree in one year where they've had
three field experiences and they have all the preparation of
any other mathematics major and then they have an additionally
education. Let me let me shoot it again.
Okay, I'll start from the top. Go for it.
the Mathematics Education program at Virginia Tech is unique because
we're able to take advantage of having a presence in
both the School of Education and in the Math department.
We take advantage of that as faculty by networking
to other departments in the College of Science such as
psychology and physics. We take advantage of that in
the School of Education by networking to other areas such
as special education and the learning sciences. With our students
we also take advantage of of having feet
in both worlds. Our students come out very strongly
prepared in mathematics, but in just one additional year,
our future high school teachers building on their undergraduate
degree in mathematics were able to complete a masters in
education. So they get their education courses, they
get all the mathematics preparation of any other mathematics.
Uh many other mathematics major and they also get three
field experiences. Uh for our graduate students, we have
uh what acts like one program, but there's Mhm, let me try it again.
I want to finish on the one community thing.
The Mathematics Education program at Virginia Tech is unique
because we're able to take advantage of. The Mathematics Education
program at Virginia Tech is unique in the way that
we take advantage of a presence in two different colleges.
We have faculty in the Mathematics department in the
College of Science and we have faculty in the School
of Education and the Department of Teaching and Learning.
We take advantage of that at all levels. At a
research level, we take advantage of that in terms
of our networks within the College of Science to departments
like Psychology and Physics and in the School of Education
were able to network to groups like special educators and
learning science faculty. For our undergraduate students, we also take
advantage of that. Our undergraduate students, for example,
in secondary mathematics get undergraduate degree in mathematics,
so they're very strongly prepared in mathematics, just like
any other mathematics major. But they're also they also
have the opportunity to have three early field experiences and
then just one additional year while taking their graduate level
education courses are able to complete a masters degree. Among
our PhD students, we actually have PhD students who
are in the math department, getting PhDs in mathematics,
uh and we have PhD students in the School
of Education, getting PhDs from the Department of Teaching
and Learning, but they're all getting their doing their
dissertations and the research in Mathematics Education and we
form just one community. Okay. Yeah. Do 63 00:03:27.870 --> A:middle L:90% it.