Adult Ed Teacher Appointed to National Panel
Pam Meader, chair of the math department at Portland Adult Education, has been appointed to an expert panel advising the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Vocational and Adult Education.
Meader is the only teacher on the Adult Numeracy Partnership Expert Panel. She will join researchers, mathematics education experts, adult numeracy experts and policy makers from the field of mathematics in evaluating the findings of President Bush’s National Math Panel and making recommendations about their relevance to adult numeracy instruction.
Meader was scheduled to give a presentation to the panel this week about the strategies that she uses as a math teacher of adult learners.
A former high school math teacher, Meader has taught math in adult basic education settings for more than 20 years. She is past president of the Adult Numeracy Network, a national organization of adult education practitioners. She has conducted research on the motivation and retention of adult learners.
Meader is co-author of the Walch Publishers series, “Math for All Learners.” She is writing standards-based math curricula for adult high school diploma credit and college transitions for the Maine Department of Adult Education.
