Korean math teachers spend summer session at School of Education
Friday, August 29, 2008
For the third year, the IU School of Education hosted a group of secondary math teachers from South Korea. Twenty-two teachers spent four weeks in a mathematics education training program from mid-July through mid-August. It’s part of a program the government in Korea sponsors to send math and science teachers across the United States to learn different methods of teaching. In this short video, the teacher speak about their experience with U.S. teaching and culture.The School of Education won a grant from South Korea's Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education to host the teachers. The Korean teachers are hoping to learn even better ways of teaching math, despite the success their students already have. The Program for International Student Assessment found Korea, Finland, and Chinese Taipei and Hong Kong-China outperformed all other countries when it surveyed 15-year old students in 2006. The U.S. came in 24th.
