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 Name, Position, Affiliation Information S. Megan Che, Associate Professor, Clemson University, College of Education, Department of Teaching and Learning
Main duties in your work
My responsibilities as a faculty member at Clemson include preparing prospective secondary and middle grades mathematics teachers at the initial certification level (to include undergraduate and MAT prospective teachers) across multiple programs in our department, contributing to our understandings of mathematics teaching and learning through original research and scholarship, and engaging in service activities at my institution and to my field. In partial fulfillment of these expectations, I teach graduate courses for doctoral and masters students in the College of Education across several programs, and I advise doctoral students during their PhD processes. I have also managed several externally-funded research projects, and I currently serve as the Coordinator for Secondary Mathematics Education and as Coordinator for the Secondary Program Areas at Clemson University.
Recent Accomplishments
My recent accomplishments include receiving a Grant Fellows award from the College of Education at Clemson University (2024) to support my grant-writing efforts. In 2024 I also conducted a state-funded Computer Science workshop for in-service novice middle grades and high school computer science teachers across South Carolina. This professional development was a continuation of an NSF-funded CS PD and research grant, for which I served as PI. Another recent accomplishment is the privilege and honor to give the Founder’s Lecture at the 2024 meeting of the Research Council on Mathematics Learning (RCML). Finally, in 2024, I presented at the 15th International Congress on Mathematical Education in Sydney, and I was selected as incoming Editor-In-Chief for Investigations in Mathematics Learning (IML).
Service to SSMA and other Professional Organizations
My involvement with SSMA includes serving on the Elections Committee (2014-2017) and serving as Director at Large on the Board of Directors (2017-2020). My service to other professional organizations includes participation on two RCML committees (Conference Committee from 2010-2011; Nominations Committee from 2015-2016), serving as Secretary for the RCML board (2011-2013), serving as Program Chair for the 39th annual meeting of RMCL, and serving as RCML President 2019-2021). A few weeks ago, I began my service as Editor-in-Chief for IML, a journal of RCML. This editorship will continue for a minimum of three years (2025-2028), and would thus overlap with a term as SSMA President, should I be elected as President-Elect.
Your Vision for SSMA
I honestly have enjoyed every SSMA meeting that I have attended, largely because of the opportunity to get to create connections between my primary area of focus (mathematics) and science—which was my undergraduate degree (meteorology), and engineering and technology. SSMA, much like RCML, is a smaller, friendly conference which intentionally creates space for meaningful interaction and engagement among members and conference attendees, and these interactions that drive my thinking forward are why I continue to return. My vision for SSMA is to sustain that fruitful, multi-disciplinary space while also exploring and supporting expansions of that space, particularly into computer science education. As more states require a computer science course for graduation, teacher educators will need to prepare more prospective computer science teachers, and STEM scholars will need to develop our understandings of computer science pedagogies. In short, we have an important opportunity to articulate and research connections between computational thinking and mathematics, science, engineering, and technology in educational contexts, and SSMA is ideally situated to catalyze those processes.
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