Professional Development in MATH???

In looking around at jobs that involve Math Coaching and also listening to OSPI discuss professional development I am becoming convinced that OSPI et al. have no idea what should be happening.

I received the following from Steve Wilson, PhD. of Johns Hopkins University; think about professional development in the light of Steve's letter.

Sat with a Korean mathematician friend today
on our boat trip. He explained to me the
math courses that an elementary school
teacher in South Korea must have:

Calculus,
Euclidean Geometry
Linear Algebra
Topology
Real Analysis
Statistics
discrete math

and those a high school teacher must have

the above, and
complex analysis
year of abstract algebra
numerical analysis
number theory
more topology
differential geometry
non-Euclidean geometry

are we catching up yet?

Steve