OCTM 2012 is pleased to announce Keynote Speaker Dr. Rochelle Gutiérrez to present to conference attendees on Thursday, October 18.
Rochelle Gutiérrez is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her research focuses on equity in mathematics education, race/class/language issues in teaching and learning mathematics, effective teacher communities, and challenging the achievement gap. Her current research projects include: teacher community and secondary mathematics teaching in México (for which she received a Fulbright); developing pre-service teachers' knowledge and disposition to teach mathematics to marginalized students in an era of high stakes testing, and using "Nepantla" as a way to theorize knowledge for teaching.
Before and throughout graduate school, she taught middle and high school mathematics to adolescents in East San José, California. Her work has been published in such journals asMathematical Thinking and Learning, Journal of Curriculum Studies, American Educational Research Journal, and the Urban Review.
Rochelle Gutiérrez is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her research focuses on equity in mathematics education, race/class/language issues in teaching and learning mathematics, effective teacher communities, and challenging the achievement gap. Her current research projects include: teacher community and secondary mathematics teaching in México (for which she received a Fulbright); developing pre-service teachers' knowledge and disposition to teach mathematics to marginalized students in an era of high stakes testing, and using "Nepantla" as a way to theorize knowledge for teaching.
Before and throughout graduate school, she taught middle and high school mathematics to adolescents in East San José, California. Her work has been published in such journals asMathematical Thinking and Learning, Journal of Curriculum Studies, American Educational Research Journal, and the Urban Review.
