Candidate for AMTE Secretary

M. Lynn Breyfogle

Bucknell University

Lynn Breyfogle is an Associate Professor in the mathematics department at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA. Her responsibilities include teaching mathematics content and methods courses for the early childhood and elementary education majors and a mathematics methods course for students seeking secondary mathematics certification. Lynn began her career as a secondary mathematics teacher in suburban Michigan and later taught in rural Wyoming. In addition to her experience teaching at the middle school, high school, and collegiate levels, she has worked with practicing elementary, middle, and high school teachers. Recently, Lynn completed a three-year professional development project called “MathPro for All” which provided 120 elementary teachers in central PA with the opportunity to increase their mathematics content knowledge and improve their instructional practices. Currently, she is providing on-going professional development experiences to teachers in three local school districts and is in the process of developing a Co-Mentoring Collaborative among 17 local rural school districts focusing on improving middle/high school mathematics instruction. Her AMTE activities include serving on the Teacher Resource Task Force and the Editorial Board of the 4^th Monograph, “Cases in Mathematics Teacher Education: Tools for Developing Knowledge Needed for Teaching”. Lynn is a founding member of the PAMTE (PA affiliate) and is currently serving as chair of PAMTE’s Membership Committee.

To me the strength of AMTE as an organization is the community and relationships it helps to nurture and cultivate among mathematics teacher educators. As a member of AMTE since my days in graduate school, AMTE has been a very important organization to my professional growth. This organization has kept me well informed and up-to-date on best practices in mathematics teacher education and has provided me with the opportunity to share my ideas and learn how others are implementing their ideas. These opportunities are particularly important to mathematics teacher educators who find themselves at institutions with few or no other colleagues. As a member of the board, serving as secretary, I will continue the tradition of keeping the membership informed as well as doing my part to help the organization grow in its dedication to cultivating a community focused on best practices in mathematics teacher education for mathematics teacher educators at all types of institutions.