scholarly journals PROSPECTIVE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS’ ACTIVITIES WHEN DEALING WITH MATHEMATICS MODELLING TASKS

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-318
Author(s):  
Floriano Viseu ◽  
Paula Mendes Martins ◽  
Laurinda Leite
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Mathematical Knowledge ◽  
Problem Situation ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Proportionality Constant ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
Analytical Expressions

The current teaching of mathematics is guided by recommendations that suggest the implementation of various activities in order to raise the understanding of mathematical knowledge. This diversity is related to the characteristics of the tasks proposed in the learning contexts. Among all tasks, the modelling ones call for the application of activities through different representations. So, it is important that teacher training courses promote experiences involving prospective teachers with this type of task. Based on this assumption, we intend to identify the activities that prospective primary school teachers perform in solving modelling tasks, the difficulties experienced in these tasks and the value of the models they determine. From the analysis of the resolutions of two tasks, we find that the prospective teachers translate the information of the data available in tables through graphs and analytical expressions. Some discuss models that determine which best fits the data. In the activities carried out, difficulties arise in determining the proportionality constant that best translates the problem situation, discussing the reasonableness of the values generated by the model, and sketching the graph of the model that best fits the experimental data. As for the usefulness of the model they determine, few prospective teachers are predicting outcomes.

scholarly journals Opinions of Primary School Teachers about Mathematics Teaching During the Covid-19 Pandemic Period

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esma Kilinc ◽  
Sumeyra Akkaya ◽  
Metin Kapidere
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Expert Opinions ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
Education Process

This study was conducted to reveal the aspect of distance education studies on teaching of mathematics with the evaluation by class teachers during the Covid-19 Pandemic period. 24 primary school teachers from Onikisubat district of Kahramanmaras province have participated in the research. The semi-structured interview form developed in line with the expert opinions was applied to the primary school teachers separately. This study was required in order to evaluate the events experienced in the distance education process due to the coronavirus pandemic and the effects of the pandemic on the field of education in the direction of the opinions of the class teachers. Qualitative research was carried out to interpret any situation from a different perspective in the study, and a case study has been conducted to reach the depth of the situation. As a data collection tool, a semi-structured interview form was prepared with the approval of expert opinions. After the data were brought together, content analysis was carried out by giving similar descriptions and describing them in a way that the reader could comprehend. The sample of the study consisted of teachers who personally experienced the process in the nearby environment, which consists of easily accessible situation sampling in order to accelerate the study. It is thought that it will be important to work properly execution of the processes that may occur in such times by determining the causes and consequences of the situations experienced in the field of education due to reasons such as the suspension of face-to-face education and the cessation of schools after the pandemic in the world. As a result of the research, suggestions will be made for the studies that can be done about teaching mathematics in distance education.

scholarly journals Research on computer using experience of primary school teachers in teaching of mathematics

2009 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vilma Gesevičienė
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Mathematical Abilities ◽  
Practical Development ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics

The article deals with some questions of primary school teachers’ experience in using of informational and communicative technologies (ICT) and application of information technologies (IT) for practical development of schoolchildren’s mathematical abilities.

scholarly journals THE CONTENT OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS’ TRAINING FOR THE CREATIVE POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT OF PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION

2016 ◽  
pp. 163-172
Author(s):  
Yelena Krivolap
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Primary School Students ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
School Students ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Potential Development ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
Teachers Training

One of the problems of primary school teachers’ training in postgraduate education is to prove the guidelines vector of teaching activities on the development of creative abilities of every child. From the early school years it is necessary to enhance the student’s tendency to creative performance with new creative and intellectual abilities and effective methodologies. The realia of the new millennium requires the activation of personality’s creative potential, creative activity of primary school students, creating psychological and pedagogical conditions for their professional self-expression and creative fulfillment.The aim of the article is to analyze the content of primary school teachers’ training on the development of primary school students’ creative potential in postgraduate education.The content of primary school teachers’ training for the creative potential development of primary school students during training courses in postgraduate teachers’ education complies with such features as: concentric (allows to establish a connection between the known and the unknown, to develop, enhance, organize teachers’ ideas on the types and methods of the development of primary school students’ creative abilities); transfer from simple to complex in teaching of adults, from the known to the unknown or little known (makes it possible to gradually expand, enrich the content of each topic); the relationship of learning content during training courses with practical activities in primary school (includes visiting methodologist teachers’ lessons at schools); providing students with positive motivation during learning to fix the interest in the development of primary pupils’ creative activity in the classroom; interdependence of methods and techniques of training (for their efficient optimal combination in different learning situations).Thus, the content of primary school teachers’ training to the development of primary school students’ creative potential in postgraduate education combines didactic, andragogical and psychological foundations of teachers’ education as a particular category of working adults. In the long term we shall search pedagogical conditions of training.

scholarly journals What Does Social Realism Have to Offer for Research on Teacher Identity in Mathematics Education?

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 1229-1247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lise Westaway ◽  
Gabriele Kaiser ◽  
Mellony Graven
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Teacher Identity ◽  
Mathematical Knowledge ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Social Realism ◽  
Teaching Mathematics ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Made In

Abstract Research that focuses on teacher identity is gaining traction as researchers argue that teachers mediate more than mathematical knowledge and skills in the classroom. This research tends to be underpinned by a social constructionist orientation, which foregrounds epistemology over ontology. This orientation is limiting for research that wishes to understand the base conditions that enable or constrain the expression (i.e. both communication and action) of teacher identity in teaching primary mathematics. The paper suggests that this requires research that explores the interaction between structure, culture and agency in the expression of teacher identity in teaching mathematics in primary school. The study argues that a social realist orientation is of value to research on teacher identity. From this perspective, teacher identity is defined as the manner in which teachers express their roles as teachers. As the paper is primarily theoretical, the exemplification is limited to two primary school teachers’ expression of only one role namely effective communicator of mathematics. It demonstrates what social realism enables, that is, not illuminated in research underpinned by a social constructionist orientation. The argument made in this paper elucidates how social realism supports a deep analysis of the structural and agential conditions that enable and constrain teacher identities.

scholarly journals Characterizing the Digital Culture of Prospective Primary School Teachers

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Youssef Ou-sekou ◽  
Fatiha kaddari ◽  
Abdelkarim Zaid
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Digital Tool ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Content Preparation ◽  
Personal Use

This article aims at characterizing the digital culture of prospective Moroccan primary school teachers during their training. The study was conducted as a survey on a sample of prospective primary school teachers from Morocco. A descriptive frequency analysis was performed using SPSS. The results show that this digital culture is rooted more considerably in their personal use of different technological tools or resources. The article analyzes the resources of digital culture through the objectives of digital practices of prospective teachers and the motivations underlying their choice of a specific digital tool and practice. The digital practices of prospective teachers are marked by frequent use of social networks and a low tendency to make use of institutional platforms and their trainers’ blogs. The analysis highlights the nature of the environments, services, and digital resources manipulated by prospective teachers during their training. It also sheds light on the role of this digital culture in the content preparation activities of these potential teachers, as well as the resources produced by them and by their trainers. The preparation of pedagogical content often makes use of social network tools, while educational tools are in average use. Finally, the results show that these exchanges are dominated by WhatsApp, Google Drive, and e-mail; however, the use of the WhatsApp application is more prevalent when interacting with trainers.

Nonspecialist Preservice Primary-School Teachers: Predicting Intent to Teach Physical Education

2004 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Faulkner ◽  
Colin Reeves ◽  
Sue Chedzoy
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Primary Teacher ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Positive Assessment ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
Barriers To Teaching ◽  
Primary Teacher Training

The purpose of this study was to establish the utility of the Theory of Planned Behavior in predicting nonspecialist, preservice primary-school teachers’ intentions to teach physical education for 2 hr per week. A questionnaire was developed, according to the recommended procedures, and was administered to 128 final-year teacher trainees in two Primary Teacher Training courses in England. A variety of predictors were identified, including beliefs of significant others, such as parents; a positive assessment of control over difficult barriers; and experiences of past (teaching) behavior. The most significant predictor in discriminating between intenders and nonintenders, however, was personal exercise behavior. Helping preservice primary-school teachers become more physically active themselves might positively influence their intent to teach physical education 2 hr per week more than alleviating barriers to teaching physical education.

scholarly journals DEVELOPING A QUESTIONNAIRE TO ASSESS THE PROBABILITY CONTENT KNOWLEDGE OF PROSPECTIVE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-215
Author(s):  
EMILSE GÓMEZ-TORRES ◽  
CARMEN BATANERO ◽  
CARMEN DÍAZ ◽  
JOSÉ MIGUEL CONTRERAS
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Mathematical Knowledge ◽  
Statistics Education ◽  
Mathematical Knowledge For Teaching ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Knowledge For Teaching ◽  
Research Journal

In this paper we describe the development of a questionnaire designed to assess the probability content knowledge of prospective primary school teachers. Three components of mathematical knowledge for teaching and three different meanings of probability (classical, frequentist and subjective) are considered. The questionnaire content is based on curricular guidelines and primary school textbooks in Spain. The items were selected and adapted, after expert judgment, from previous research. The responses of 157 prospective primary school teachers were used to analyze the psychometric properties of the questionnaire and to provide information about various aspects of participants’ probability content knowledge. First published November 2016 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives

scholarly journals Prospective Primary School Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Teaching Mathematics

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mesut Tabuk
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Grade Level ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Type A ◽  
Teaching Mathematics ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Teachers Attitudes

The aim of the study is to determine prospective primary school teachers’ attitudes towards teaching mathematics. The study is designed according to model of survey in the descriptive type. A total of 236 prospective primary school teachers were examined in order to investigate the effect of gender and program differences on their attitudes towards teaching mathematics. In the study, the questionnaire “Teaching Mathematics” was used to collect the data from prospective teachers. The results revealed that the prospective teachers have positive attitude towards teaching mathematics. It was found also that gender and grade level are not significant factor on attitude scores. Finally, various suggestions were presented for future studies in accordance with the findings obtained.

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