AMATYC’s Vision: Opening Doors through Mathematics
AMATYC's Core Values
(Alphabetical Order)
Approved May 2006
Core Values represent core priorities, traits, or qualities in the organization's culture that are considered worthwhile. They are timeless and unchanging.
| Core Value: | Operational Definition: |
Academic Excellence | Presenting a quality educational experience in mathematics that is responsive to the needs of all students while recognizing student achievement in mathematics as an essential life goal. |
Access | Acknowledging the right of all students to experience learning mathematics in ways that maximize their individual potential. |
Collegiality | Providing opportunities for networking and encouraging mutual respect for other mathematics professionals for the betterment of the mathematics teaching profession. |
Innovation | Creating, developing, implementing, and redefining successful instructional strategies, curricula in mathematics, and classroom practices based on the research of how students best learn mathematics and how faculty best teach mathematics. |
Integrity | Safeguarding the qualities of honesty, sincerity, trustworthiness, global consciousness, and a code of sound moral professional principles. |
Professional Development | Building expertise and exhibiting leadership in the teaching and learning of mathematics, enhancing personal growth, and improving teaching methods and effectiveness as a personally initiated life-long responsibility. |
Teaching Excellence | Designing and implementing a dynamic mathematics curriculum, promoting the use of innovative and effective teaching strategies, assessing student learning outcomes in mathematics with appropriate methods, and creating a successful learning environment for all students. |
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