How a Salsa-Dancing Former Monk from Argentina Is Instilling Confidence and Wonder in Her Statistics Students

摘要

For the past few years, I have participated as a mentor in the NSF-funded program Training a New Generation of Statistics Educators (TANGO Stat Ed), which matches university faculty with community college statistics teachers. The TANGO principal investigators are Michael Posner of Villanova and Monica Dabos of College of the Canyons, a community college in California. While discussing the project and much more with Dabos recently, I learned she has some thought-provoking ideas about fostering creativity, collaboration, and personal development in her students as they learn statistics, so I decided to interview her for this column.