KAMTE Fall 2021 Pre-Service Teachers Conference

KAMTE Fall 2021 Pre-Service Teachers Conference
Friday, November 5, 2021
9:00 am - 3:30 pm EST
Free Registration Here
Registration Deadline: October 29, 2021


KAMTE is excited to host an opportunity for preservice teachers to learn more about teaching mathematics, network with one another and be inspired.


Conference Schedule

9:00 - 9:15 Opening Session (Sarah Kasten, President KAMTE, Northern Kentucky University)
9:15 - 10:15 The Five Practices in Practice (Mike Steele, Past President AMTE, National Science Foundation)
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break/Transition Time (offline)
10:30 - 11:00 Pre-Service Teachers Poster Session (facilitators - Cheryll Johnson, Past-President KAMTE, Asbury University; Bethany Noblitt, Northern Kentucky University)
11:00 - 12:00 KY Standards Sessions (choose one of the two sessions)
  • Kentucky Academic Standards 101: Getting to Know the Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics K – 12 (Erin Chavez, Kentucky Department of Education)
  • Kentucky Academic Standards 102: Integrating Social, Emotional, and Academic Development within the KAS for Mathematics (Maggie Doyle, Kentucky Department of Education)
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch (offline)
1:00 - 2:30 Mathematical Practice Sessions (Choose one of the two sessions depending on grade band)
  • The Standards for Mathematical Practices: What are they and how do we teach them? (Grades K – 5) (Cindy Aossey, Kentucky Center for Mathematics)
  • Mathematical Modeling in Grades 6-12: What it is and what it is not (Bethany Noblitt, Northern Kentucky University)
2:30 - 2:45 Coffee Break/Transition Time (offline)
2:45 - 3:15 Discussion and Networking Small Groups (Facilitators - Funda Gonulates, President Elect KAMTE, Northern Kentucky University; Natasha Gerstenschlager, Secretary KAMTE, Western Kentucky University)
3:15 - 3:30 Closing Session Closing Session (Sarah Kasten, President KAMTE, Northern Kentucky University)


If you have any questions about the KAMTE Pre-Service Teacher Conference, please email KAMTE President, Sarah Kasten at kastens1@nku.edu.



Call for Poster Presentations

KAMTE invites you, as pre-service mathematics teachers, to submit a proposal to present a poster that highlights any of your research or learning in your teacher education program. Research may include undergraduate research projects or action research in which you have participated. Haven’t participated in research? Present on effective teaching strategies, good teacher moves, motivating tasks for students, or anything else you have learned about that you think others should learn about too!

Poster session will be held 10:30 – 11:00 AM as part of the virtual conference.

To see examples of past pre-service teacher poster presentations, visit KAMTE PST Virtual Poster Session.

To submit a poster for presentation, send the following information to Bethany Noblitt, KAMTE Past President, at noblittb@nku.edu: Name(s), academic institution, faculty sponsor, poster title and abstract.