Faculty
Mathematics Education Faculty
Fran Arbaugh
arbaugh@psu.edu
(Ph.D.) Associate Professor of Education
Dr. Arbaugh's interests include the design and implementation of teacher development programs (both preservice and in-service) and how and what teachers learn from these programs. Dr. Arbaugh is a former high school mathematics teacher. She received an M.Ed. in Secondary Mathematics Education from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1996 and a Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction (Mathematics Education) from Indiana University–Bloomington in 2000. She recently was a co-editor of two publications: Inquiry Into Mathematics Teacher Education (Association of Mathematics Teacher Education Monograph 5) and A Decade of Middle School Mathematics Curriculum Implementation: Lessons Learned from the Show-Me Project. Dr. Arbaugh was named a William T. Kemper Fellow for Teaching Excellence at the University of Missouri (MU) in 2007, receiving one of the most prestigious teaching awards at MU. She currently serves as a board member for the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE).
Glendon W. Blume
gblume@psu.edu
(Ph.D.) Professor of Education
C&I Graduate Coordinator
Dr. Blume’s mathematics education activities focus on the mathematical understandings of secondary mathematics teachers and the impact of technology on mathematics teaching and learning. He has co-directed or been a research associate on six NSF-funded research and curriculum development projects; his current work occurs with the NSF-funded Mid-Atlantic Center for Mathematics Teaching and Learning. Dr. Blume is a former high school and middle school mathematics teacher who serves as co-Associate Editor of the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education and co-editor of the Yearbooks of the PA Council of Teachers of Mathematics. He has co-edited Research on Technology and the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics, Vol. 1: Research Syntheses and Vol. 2: Cases and Perspectives, served on four NCTM committees and task forces and chaired NCTM’s Instructional Issues Advisory Committee, and authored interpretive reports on the 1992, 1996, and 2003 mathematics assessments of the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
M. Kathleen Heid
mkh2@psu.edu
(Ph.D.) Distinguished Professor of Education
Dr. Heid is co-PI of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, one of the first Centers for Learning and Teaching funded by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Heid has served on the Board of Governors for the Mathematical Association of America and she currently serves on the Board of Directors for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. She was co-director, with Dr. Rose Mary Zbiek, of the NSF-funded CAS-Intensive Mathematics curriculum project. She is coediting, with Dr. Glendon Blume, internationally authored volumes on Research on Technology and the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics. She and Dr. Blume are writing a Foundation volume for NSF on Research on Technology in Mathematics Education. Dr. Heid’s research interests centers on the mathematical understandings needed by secondary mathematics teachers, on mathematical thinking, on the impact of technology on the teaching and learning of mathematics, and on the creation and investigation of technology-intensive mathematics curricula.
Gwen Lloyd
lloyd@psu.edu
http://www.personal.psu.edu/gml14
(Ph.D.) Professor of Education
Dr. Lloyd's research focuses on teacher education and professional development in the context of ongoing curricular reforms in mathematics education. From 2000 to 2010, she was PI of two NSF-funded projects focused on preservice teachers' interactions with K-12 mathematics textbooks and curriculum materials. Gwen’s research has also examined mathematics teachers’ learning through the development and enactment of classroom practice using innovative curriculum materials. Her work has been published in numerous journals, and her books include Learning to Teach with Standards-Based Curricula ([NCTM, forthcoming), Developing Essential Understanding of Function for Teaching Mathematics in Grades 9-12 (NCTM, 2010), and Mathematics Teachers at Work: Connecting curriculum materials and classroom instruction (Routledge, 2009). Gwen serves as co-Editor of the Journal of Teacher Education and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education. Gwen is the Coordinator of Elementary Teacher Education at Penn State and a member of the Promotion and Tenure Committee in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction. Before joining the mathematics education group at Penn State in 2009, she was a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at Virginia Tech.
Andrea McCloskey
http://www.personal.psu.edu/avm11
(Ph.D.) Assistant Professor of Education
Dr. McCloskey taught middle and high school mathematics in Indiana and Ohio. During her doctoral studies at Indiana University (Bloomington), she participated in collaborative work with elementary classroom teachers on understanding students' learning of fractions. Another research project centered on the design and implementation of innovative early field experiences for elementary preservice teachers. Her current research interests are related to ongoing work with both of these projects.
Rose Mary Zbiek
rzbiek@psu.edu
(Ph.D.) Professor of education
Secondary Education Professor-in-Charge
Dr. Zbiek is a former Pennsylvania mathematics and computer science teacher. She joined the Penn State faculty in 2002 after a decade of teaching mathematics and mathematics education at the University of Iowa. Her scholarly interests focus on teachers’ and students’ mathematical reasoning and representations in technology-intensive environments at the secondary and college levels. Her recent work includes theory-building research in the area of representation and models of mathematics teachers’ incorporation of technology in room practice. She is the series editor for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Essential Understanding project.
Instructional Faculty
Janet Bobango
jcb18@psu.edu
(Ph.D) Assistant Professor of Education
For many years Dr. Bobango taught mathematics to middle and high school students in Harborcreek, Erie, Corry and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After earning her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Penn State, she joined the faculty at the University of Cincinnati where she helped prepare future mathematics teachers. In addition to teaching graduate courses for inservice elementary and secondary math teachers, Dr. Bobango contributed to the professional development of experienced educators through specially funded programs such as Ohio’s Project Discovery. She also served as co-editor of the Ohio Journal of School Mathematics for several years. Currently Dr. Bobango’s interest is in helping Penn State secondary education math majors enter the teaching profession by supervising them during their field experience in the Greater Pittsburgh area.
Ann Brungart
aab12@psu.edu
(Ph.D.) Assistant Professor of Education
Dr. Brungart earned a B.S. in Math from Salem College, WV and her M.Ed. and Ph.D from Penn State. She taught middle school mathematics for 31 years and presently teaches elementary mathematics methods courses for future elementary teachers at Penn State.
Iris Striedieck
striedieck@psu.edu
(Ph.D.) Assistant Professor of Education
Formerly a high school mathematics teacher in Ohio, Dr. Striedieck teaches mathematics education courses for future elementary and secondary teachers at Penn State. Her work has spanned teacher preparation, teacher leadership, curriculum and supervision and mathematics education. She has served as coordinator of early field experiences and lead faculty member in an online M.Ed program with a teacher leadership focus, and has taught over 20 different undergraduate and graduate courses in teacher education at Penn State.
