{"id":66369,"date":"2022-05-06T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=66369"},"modified":"2023-08-30T23:12:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T03:12:13","slug":"dietiker-selected-for-2022-metcalf-award-for-excellence-in-teaching","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2022\/dietiker-selected-for-2022-metcalf-award-for-excellence-in-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Dietiker selected for 2022 Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin news-block-editorial-leadin is-style-side-by-side has-media has-box has-media-focus-center-middle has-tertiary-theme\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" src=\"\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/05\/Leslie-Dietiker_08_-scaled.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"Leslie Dietiker Headshot\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/05\/Leslie-Dietiker_08_-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/05\/Leslie-Dietiker_08_-scaled-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/05\/Leslie-Dietiker_08_-scaled-1500x1500.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/05\/Leslie-Dietiker_08_-scaled-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/05\/Leslie-Dietiker_08_-scaled-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/05\/Leslie-Dietiker_08_-scaled-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/05\/Leslie-Dietiker_08_-scaled-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/05\/Leslie-Dietiker_08_-scaled-826x826.jpg 826w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/05\/Leslie-Dietiker_08_-scaled-344x344.jpg 344w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/05\/Leslie-Dietiker_08_-scaled-529x529.jpg 529w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/05\/Leslie-Dietiker_08_-scaled-682x682.jpg 682w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/05\/Leslie-Dietiker_08_-scaled-1032x1032.jpg 1032w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/05\/Leslie-Dietiker_08_-scaled-1321x1321.jpg 1321w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/05\/Leslie-Dietiker_08_-scaled-688x688.jpg 688w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/05\/Leslie-Dietiker_08_-scaled-1058x1058.jpg 1058w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/05\/Leslie-Dietiker_08_-scaled-1364x1364.jpg 1364w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/05\/Leslie-Dietiker_08_-scaled-1652x1652.jpg 1652w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/05\/Leslie-Dietiker_08_-scaled-1000x1000.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/05\/Leslie-Dietiker_08_-scaled-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/05\/Leslie-Dietiker_08_-scaled-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/05\/Leslie-Dietiker_08_-scaled-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/05\/Leslie-Dietiker_08_-scaled-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2022\/05\/Leslie-Dietiker_08_-scaled-710x710.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-prepress-tag\">Grants &amp; awards<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDietiker Selected for 2022 Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar js-block-editorial-metabar news-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">May 6, 2022<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul data-credit-type=\"By\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/authors\/carolyn-barrett\/\">Carolyn Barrett<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<p>Leslie Dietiker has always been a problem solver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It started in her first high school mathematics classroom in San Francisco. Fresh out of college\u2014where she had been a mathematics major\u2014Dietiker joined a school that was losing two math teachers a month. While most teachers might have packed their bags and looked for another district, Dietiker had simply found a problem to solve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI had no experience with students who were highly at risk,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was the most challenging teaching experience I\u2019ve had\u2014but a very formative one at that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dietiker, an associate professor of mathematics education at BU Wheelock, was honored this week with Boston University\u2019s Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2022. Her willingness to dive in to address a challenge is just one of the qualities that led to her nomination and ultimate selection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>A commitment to excellence in teaching<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Each year, the Provost\u2019s Faculty Teaching Awards Committee selects up to two Metcalf Award winners who embody the University\u2019s commitment to excellence in teaching. Nominees are judged on their excellence in teaching in the context of a research institute; challenge and ambition; engagement; and thoughtful evaluation of student work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is no surprise to any of her colleagues that Dr. Dietiker was selected for this year\u2019s Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching,&#8221; says David J. Chard, dean of BU Wheelock. &#8220;Leslie was a classroom teacher before becoming an internationally recognized expert on mathematics education.&nbsp; So she takes teaching very, very seriously. In fact her scholarship is focused on the complex interactions amongst teachers, learners, and mathematical knowledge in classrooms.&nbsp; She brings the same intense curiosity to her own teaching as she prepares professionals to work with students in our public school classrooms. We are very fortunate to have her as a colleague here at BU Wheelock!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Making math engaging for all students<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Dietiker taught in San Francisco for 17 years before pursuing a doctorate in mathematics education at Michigan State University. She joined Boston University in 2012, certain that she would spend the rest of her career as a researcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen I came to BU Wheelock, I saw myself a researcher, but then I met the students and all bets were off.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, Dietiker works with both undergraduate and graduate students, preparing them to be the math educators of tomorrow. \u201cI am just blown away by the quality of inquiry and the willingness to try new things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her goal, she says, is to help her students learn how to make mathematics so compelling to their own students that they can\u2019t help but engage. \u201cWe want our students to look at the world as a challenge that can be solved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BU Wheelock\u2019s last Metcalf Award winner was Carol Jenkins, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/awards-publications\/award-opportunities\/university-wide-teaching-awards\/metcalf\/awards-for-excellence-in-teaching\/2013-metcalf-award-recipient-carol-b-jenkins\/\">who received the honor in 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6>Read &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2022\/leslie-dietiker-wins-metcalf-prize-for-excellence-in-teaching\/\">Leslie Dietiker Wins 2022 Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching<\/a>.&#8221;<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leslie Dietiker has always been a problem solver. 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