The 2019 recipient of the Associaton of Mathematics Teacher Educators NTLI Fellowship is Assistant Professor Kelley Buchheister of Child, Youth and Family Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Buchheister, who won the award for her paper "A Program for Success," taught an NMSSI course in 2018 and will be teaching a course to the current cohort of Primarily Math and ITEAM this summer in ESU 3.
Her research and teaching focus on enhancing students’ thinking and reasoning in early mathematics by developing practicing and prospective teachers’ understanding of the cultural contexts of learning and constructing appropriately challenging environments that provide the greatest opportunity for all students to achieve high-quality experiences in the STEM disciplines.
Since 2000, the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) has collaborated with four teacher education associations representing the content areas of mathematics, science, English language arts, and social studies education through the National Technology Leadership Initiative (NTLI).
The NTLI fellowships were established to recognize exemplary presentations related to integration of technology in core content areas at the annual meetings of each participating association.
AMTE identifies the winner of its NTLI fellowship through a competitive process that includes the requirement of submitting a paper in advance of the conference. The winner of the award receives travel funding ($1200, made possible by a donation by Texas Instruments) for presenting at the SITE Annual Conference. The paper is forwarded and recommended for publication in the CITE journal by the AMTE Technology committee after additional review.