Educational Iniquity
I had a prof who, on his office door, kept a sign which said "Educational Iniquity is this nation's greatest injustice. You can help change this" (as an aside, a humorous reading is that this sign is encouraging you to make some OTHER injustice even worse). I agree with the sentiment (well, at least with the sentiment that it is a great iniquity). The sign then goes on to say that you should go be a high school teacher at an inner-city school for a year. I agree less with this sentiment, as applied to me, because I am absolutely incompetent in that sort of situation. This is just a fact, a knowledge of my own limitation, and I'm not really very interested in getting better at things like classroom management or dealing with unmotivated students (this sounds sort of callous; I'm just trying to be realistic).
That said, I am taking this year off, and being a good idealistic twenty-year-old soon to have a BA in math, a year of volunteerism in our country's public schools seems like a Good Idea. Thus I wonder if anyone who reads this (there must be fewer and fewer of you as I post less and less often) would have any ideas about teach-for-america style programs that have you doing things like curricular development or, like, teaching teachers about math, or other alternatives to address this which aren't actually teaching.
Also, nonstandard Peano models are cool.
That said, I am taking this year off, and being a good idealistic twenty-year-old soon to have a BA in math, a year of volunteerism in our country's public schools seems like a Good Idea. Thus I wonder if anyone who reads this (there must be fewer and fewer of you as I post less and less often) would have any ideas about teach-for-america style programs that have you doing things like curricular development or, like, teaching teachers about math, or other alternatives to address this which aren't actually teaching.
Also, nonstandard Peano models are cool.