This chapter in The Story of SUSTAIN describes a collaboration between the College of Arts & Sciences and the College of Education & Human Development at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) in which mathematicians and mathematics educators worked together to identify weaknesses in the current teacher education programs and discuss approaches for enhancing course offerings. As a consequence, BGSU created three new mathematics teacher preparation programs -- early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescent to young adult.

This chapter in The Story of SUSTAIN describes a collaboration between the College of Arts & Sciences and the College of Education & Human Development at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) in which mathematicians and mathematics educators worked together to identify weaknesses in the current teacher education programs and discuss approaches for enhancing course offerings. As a consequence, BGSU created three new mathematics teacher preparation programs -- early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescent to young adult. In the process, virtually every course in mathematics and mathematics education that was previously available to elementary education majors had to be eliminated, replaced, or completely reconstructed to fit the needs of the new early childhood and middle childhood programs. This chapter describes the process of reform and includes several of the new course outlines, including a course on discrete mathematics. (author/sw)