Dr. Mary Reid

Mary Reid is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the University of Toronto. With over 25 years of teaching experience, she brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to her role as Elementary Coordinator in the Master of Teaching program. Prior to her life at OISE, Reid was a classroom teacher, instructional leader, education officer at the Education Quality Accountability Office (EQAO), vice-principal and principal. In addition, her field experiences involve both urban and rural school settings. She has published research in the areas of math content knowledge of elementary pre-service teachers, math anxiety in the classroom, the gender gap in STEM, and building efficacy for math teaching. Her most recent study critically examines the gender and race gaps in math performance, specifically the intersectionality of being female and of colour. Minority females are vastly under-represented in all STEM fields and Reid's research attempts to uncover the barriers minority females face as math learners. Her findings would be of interest to those seeking to enhance math teacher education through building math capacities of pre-service and in-service teachers.