Kentucky Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education

The journal’s aim is to provide a space for the exchange of ideas to advance mathematics teacher educator practice. The journal welcomes manuscripts that support this aim. Of particular interest are manuscripts that address an issue in mathematics teacher education and the methods/interventions/tools that were used to investigate the issue along with the means by which results were determined and the impacts on practice. These types of manuscripts may (but are not required to) fall into one of the following broad categories.   

Manuscripts that describe effective ways of influencing teachers’ knowledge, practice, or beliefs. This might include a description of activities, tasks, or materials that are used by a teacher educator to influence teachers in some way. These manuscripts would include a rationale for the intervention, a careful description of the intervention, discussion of the impact of the intervention, and how it might be used by others. 

Manuscripts that describe the use of broadly applicable tools and frameworks in mathematics teacher education. This might include a classroom observation protocol, a task analysis framework, assessment tasks, or a framework for a teacher education program. These manuscripts would include a careful description of the tool or framework, what it is designed to capture, its use, and a discussion of the outcomes. The manuscript should include an explanation of how to interpret the results of the data captured by the tool. The tool should be made available for other professionals to use, modify, enhance, and study.

Additionally, KJMTE also publishes commentaries. Commentaries differ from manuscripts described above in that their goal is to highlight critical issues for Kentucky teacher educators and/or adminstrators. These are more likely to be drawing attention to a call to action and less about the practices of educating future teachers as described above. Importantly, commentaries are not peer-reviewed, they will be edited by the editors in consulation with authors. Authors are also encouraged to respond to commentaries that appear in KJMTE in their own commentary.

Dr. Bethany Noblitt and Dr. Nicholas Fortune are the current co-editors of KJMTE. If you have any questions about KJMTE or the submission process, please email them at editors@kjmte.org.