Eliciting Elementary Preservice Teachers' Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching Using Instructional Tasks that Include Children's Mathematical Thinking PDF Download

Author: Lauren Lee Goggins
Publisher: ProQuest
ISBN: 9780549389224
Category : Elementary school teachers
Languages : en
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A challenge that teacher educators face is how to determine if teacher preparation programs provide preservice teachers with opportunities to develop the mathematical knowledge that teachers use in their practice. This qualitative, interpretive study examines the mathematical knowledge for teaching that four preservice teachers exhibited when they engaged in a set of three instructional tasks that included children's mathematical thinking and were designed to replicate the work of teaching mathematics. Each task largely elicits a different kind of mathematical knowledge for teaching from preservice teachers. In addition, the formats of the children's mathematical thinking examples influence the mathematical knowledge for teaching that is elicited from preservice teachers by the complete set of instructional tasks. This study informs teacher educators how instruction in teacher preparation programs and professional development programs can be developed to measure mathematical knowledge for teaching. And, it advances the current understanding of the mathematical knowledge that is needed in the work of teaching mathematics.