Application Form
Charlotte Teachers’ Circle

The Charlotte Teachers' Circle (CTC) is accepting applications from middle school mathematics teachers in Mecklenburg and surrounding counties. The purpose of the Charlotte Teachers' Circle is to provide teachers with an opportunity to develop a 'profound conceptual understanding of some of the fundamental ideas in mathematics'.  U.S. elementary and middle school teachers typically understand these ideas well at a procedural level, but not at the higher conceptual level. At the same time, the Charlotte Teachers' Circle will provide the opportunity for teachers to develop a 'problem solving attitude', that is, a willingness and confidence to pursue students' questions and conjectures without fear of failing. See http://education.uncc.edu/cmste/TeachersCircle/index.htm

The Charlotte Teachers' Circle plans to have eight weeknight dinner meetings at UNC Charlotte on nights to be determined by the participants. There will also be eight Saturday morning meeting, mostly at Providence Day School, usually at the same times as the Charlotte Math Club and the Mecklenburg Math Club are meeting. There will also be one Saturday morning meeting at UNCC on November 17. At this meeting, Charlotte Teachers' Circle participants are urged to bring up to 20 of their students for a morning of mathematics, including the AMC8 contest.

  Name     
  Email Address  
  School  
  Local Phone  
  What grade do you teach?  
  What courses do you teach?  
  Why do you want to join the CTC?  
  Please check the boxes below to indicate your willingness to participate in these CTC activities.  
One evening meeting per month    
One Saturday morning meeting per month  
Coach or assist in coaching a MATHCOUNTS team at your school  
Bring students to UNCC on the morning of November 17 for the AMC8 and other activities (this activity is tentative, pending university approval).  

Be part of an anonymous qualitative study (conducted by professor Jeong-Lim Chae) on the influence of a teaching community and Teacher Circle on the teaching of middle school mathematics  
       
  Name of your principal  
  Principal's email  
       
  Since you have completed the online application, please ask your principal to email Harold Reiter (hbreiter@uncc.edu) to transmit his/her approval of your application.  
       

 Once you click on the Submit button below, an email with the above information will be sent to Dr. Harold Reiter.