INSPIRE-Math Fellowship 2021
Innovative New Spaces for Practice and Rehearsal in Teacher Education (INSPIRE-Math) is a new fellowship program led by the MIT Teaching Systems Lab (TSL) for all math coaches and leaders in mathematics teaching in a district or charter school in Boston for all or part of their day in grades 3-8.
Now recruiting for the 2021-2022 INSPIRE-Math Coaching & Leadership Fellowship! Apply here: Application Form
About the INSPIRE-Math Fellowship
Innovative New Spaces for Practice and Rehearsal in Teacher Education (INSPIRE-Math) is a new fellowship program led by the MIT Teaching Systems Lab (TSL) for all who currently teach or coach math in a district or charter school in Boston for all or part of their day in grades 3-8.
Core Fellowship Activities
Throughout the INSPIRE-Math fellowship, MIT INSPIRE-Math staff and fellows will work together to learn how to create and foster transformative learning experiencing by embedding cutting-edge simulations into a cycle of professional learning. Fellows will develop strong research-based mathematics teaching practice and collaborate with a community of math coaches and teacher leaders across the district to share the best coaching practice.
Fellows attend three-hour monthly fellow meetings throughout the year where educators and coaches play and practice their coaching moves in a simulated environment, collectively examining the affordances and limitations of responses. Teachers and coaches also have an opportunity to create and design their own scenarios, if they are interested.
Interested? Register for one of our sessions below to learn more about the fellowship!
How can I get involved with the INSPIRE-Math Fellowship?
Director Of Teaching Systems Lab & Associate Professor Of Comparative Media Studies/Writing
- Once Upon a Time: In this scenario, you are a Grade 6 mathematics teacher that just handed out a warm up activity designed to practice rates and ratios with your class of 12 students. This simulation enables you to practice helping the three groups of students that you have broken your class into with this activity.
- Bathroom Makeover: In this scenario, you are a Grade 5 mathematics teacher that just handed out a warm up activity designed to practice Number and Operations with fractions with your class. (Standard: Mathematics.5.NF.B.04 Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication to multiply a fraction or whole number by a fraction.) You have broken your students up into groups that have various understandings of the problem. This simulation allows you to practice helping the different groups.
- Anderson, N. (2020, October). "Can you say more?": Eliciting learner knowledge in math class. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Anderson, N., Slama, R., Moussapour, R., Benoit, G., Reich, J. (2020). Using Digital Clinical Simulations and Authoring Tools to Support Teachers in Eliciting Learners’ Mathematical Knowledge. Proceedings of the 2020 Connected Learning Summit
- Slama, R., Reich, J., Anderson, N, & Warren, C. (2021, January 26). Soft money and hard lessons: Investing in math teacher learning in poverty-impacted schools requires, well, an investment. The Future of Math Teacher Professional Learning Provocation Series
- Anderson, N., Slama, R., Warren, C., & Reich, J. (2021, January 26). Proving to Teachers, Not Teacher Proofing: How to Get Math Teachers to Order from the Menu of Published Curricula. Prepared for the Future of Math Teacher Professional Learning Provocation Series
- Benoit, G., Reich, J., and the INSPIRE-Math team (2021, January 27). The power to change the equation: Mathematics teacher learning reimagined. The Future of Math Teacher Professional Learning Provocation Series
- Slama, R., Reich, J., Anderson, N., and the INSPIRE-Math team (2021, January 28). Let’s hit the refresh button (a couple of times): Reimagining math curriculum and teacher learning to broaden participation in the math of the future. The Future of Math Teacher Professional Learning Provocation Series
- Benoit, G.,Slama, R., Moussapour, R, Anderson, N., Reich, J., and the INSPIRE-Math Team (2021, March). Simulating more Equitable Discussions: Using Teacher Moments And Practice Based Teacher Education In Mathematical Professional Learning. PMENA