Secondary Math Education

Career Outlook

Western Math PLO:
• Students will demonstrate proficiency in North Dakota required content standards.
• Assessment – Praxis II results, ND ESPB Standards 11010.1-5
• Core Courses – MATH 165, MATH 166, MATH 366, MATH 380, MATH 480

Indigenous Math PLO:
• Students will articulate Indigenous mathematical ways that are place-based and language-specific.
• Assessment – Community presentations
• Core Courses – MATH 172, MATH 272, MATH 372

Two-Eyed Balanced Math PLO:
• Students will articulate the connections between Indigenous Math and the North Dakota Secondary Math Content Standards.
• Assessment – Math modeling project
• Core Courses – MATH 341, MATH 342, MATH 364

Western Education PLO:
• Teacher candidates will demonstrate proficiency in the North Dakota required pedagogical standards.
• Assessment – Praxis II results, ND ESPB Standards 11010.6-7, InTASC Assessments 1-10
• Core Courses – EDUC 299, EDUC 329, EDUC 353, EDUC 472

Indigenous Ways of Teaching and Learning PLO:
• Teacher candidates will implement Anishinaabe ways of teaching, learning, and knowing (e.g. decolonizing, community, and place-based education).
• Assessment – Community presentations
• Core Courses – EDUC 320, MATH 172, MATH 272, MATH 372

Two-Eyed Balanced Education PLO:
• Teacher candidates will implement pedagogical practices at the overlap between Western education and Indigenous ways of teaching, learning, and being (e.g. collaborative, student-centered, equitable, and caring pedagogical practices).
• Assessment – EDUC 472 Unit Plan
• Core Courses – EDUC 472, EDUC 414/415

The six PLOs are in alignment with the Indigenous Math Education Framework (see below). Each of the four circles are distinct and can stand on their own. Further, each circle is self-justifying, meaning that it does not need justification nor validation from another circle. Specifically, Indigenous Math does not need to be validated or verified by Western Math to be considered legitimate. Third, each circle is equivalent in size showing equivalent value. This is the desired and ideal scenario that the program continues to pursue. Lastly, the four circles are all interconnected. Despite the little black lines showing rigid boundaries between the intersection and exclusion areas, these four topics are interconnected, interdependent, and always shifting in relationship with each other.