scholarly journals Enhancing Pre-service Teachers’ Noticing: A Learning Environment about Fraction Concept

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Pedro Ivars
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Mathematical Thinking ◽  
Learning Trajectory ◽  
Teacher Noticing ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Teacher Training Programs ◽  
Pre Service Teacher

Professional noticing allows teachers to recognise important events in a classroom and give effective responses using their knowledge. Hence developing this competence in teacher training programs is an issue in the Mathematics Education field. In this study, we present the design of a learning environment about the part-whole meaning of fraction to develop pre-service primary school teachers’ noticing of students’ mathematical thinking. The learning environment is designed around three tasks (vignettes) that pre-service teachers have to analyse using knowledge from research on mathematics education provided as a students’ hypothetical learning trajectory. Eighty-five pre-service teachers participated in this learning environment. Results allows us to characterise the enhancement of pre-service teacher noticing through looking at the changes in the discourse generated in the three tasks.

Post-method Pedagogy in Moroccan EFL Classrooms: Public High Schools in Meknes City as a Case

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-93
Author(s):  
Mohamed Aymane Sbai
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Classroom Research ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Teacher Training Programs ◽  
Conventional Methods ◽  
Pre Service Teacher

The ultimate goal of this paper is to investigate the pedagogical views and attitudes of Moroccan high school teachers towards Method-based pedagogy. It attempts to investigate the extent to which teachers are satisfied with and committed to conventional methods. Also, the paper aims at investigating the alternative practices teachers are more likely to resort to in order to compensate for the limitations of conventional methods. In addition to this, a further objective of this study is to investigate the extent to which pre-service teacher training programs in Morocco are aware of the challenges of the post-method era. This is measured through their awareness of the requirements of the post-method era and the extent to which teacher trainers concern themselves with equipping the prospective teachers with the necessary skills to be reflective researchers and responsibly eclectic teachers. In this respect, the data collection instruments opted for in the present study ranged from quantitative to qualitative in nature. The findings reveal that the vast majority of Moroccan high school teachers (P=78%) are dissatisfied with conventional methods and - (P=96%) of them- are not committed to one or two teaching methods. The vast majority report that they resort to an eclectic approach to language teaching due to the impracticality and inflexibility of the established methods. Most teachers (P=80%) admit that they use a random eclecticism as they rely mainly on their intuitive rather than principled judgments. In this regard, interviews with teacher trainers and supervisors also reveal that pre-service teacher training programs in Morocco limit themselves only to training the prospective teachers to use methods and approaches without training them to be responsibly eclectic. The findings also show that the majority of teachers do, to some extent, know about classroom research; however, they - (P=72%) of them- have never conducted it inside their classrooms. The teachers (P=57%) attribute this to the lack of financial support and to the fact that they are not well-trained to conduct research inside their classrooms. Finally, the results of this study imply many suggestions of which we mention: the introduction of a post-method pedagogy in the Moroccan pre-service teacher training programs, equipping teachers with the methodological tools necessary as well as supporting them financially to conduct classroom-research for the purpose of constructing teaching methodologies that suit the needs to the very specific students and contexts within which they work.

scholarly journals Pre-Service Primary School Teachers’ Knowledge and Their Interpretation of Students’ Answers to a Measurement Division Problem with Fractions

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (24) ◽  
pp. 3163
Author(s):  
Maximina Márquez ◽  
Ceneida Fernández ◽  
Maria Callejo
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Mathematical Knowledge For Teaching ◽  
Division Problem ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
School Students ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Teaching Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge For Teaching ◽  
Teacher Training Programs

During the last decades, research in teacher noticing has increased since its development is considered important in teacher training programs. An issue that needs more research is the relationship between teachers’ mathematical knowledge for teaching in a specific mathematical domain and their ability to notice. This study focuses on how pre-service primary school teachers (PPTs) solve a measurement division problem with fractions and interpret (score and justify) students’ answers to this problem. The participants were 84 PPTs who answered two tasks. Task 1 consisted of solving a measurement division problem with fractions. Task 2 involved interpreting (scoring and justifying) the answers of four primary school students to the problem. Responses to Task 1 were classified based on their accuracy and the procedure used. For Task 2, the scores given along with their justifications were analyzed. The results show that PPTs’ knowledge of division with fractions is limited and that they had difficulties in identifying conceptual errors in students’ answers. This study provides information on the relationships between PPTs’ knowledge of these types of problems and how PPTs interpret students’ answers. This information could aid in adjusting mathematical teaching knowledge in training programs.

Effect of 3 basic life support training programs in future primary school teachers. A quasi-experimental design

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 207-215
Author(s):  
R. Navarro-Patón ◽  
M. Freire-Tellado ◽  
S. Basanta-Camiño ◽  
R. Barcala-Furelos ◽  
V. Arufe-Giraldez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Basic Life Support ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Quasi Experimental

scholarly journals Improving primary school teachers’ competence in teaching multi-literacy through RADEC-based training programs

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 3033-3047
Author(s):  
Muhammad Erwinto Imran ◽  
Wahyu Sopandi ◽  
Bachruddin Mustafa ◽  
Cepi Riyana
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Literacy Learning ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
The Rasch Model

The purpose of this research is to improve the competence of teachers in teaching multi-literacy through a training programme based on the Read–Answer–Discuss–Explain–Create (RADEC) learning model. This descriptive qualitative study was conducted in a private primary school in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. The participants included were a teacher and 29 students (17 male and 12 female students, with an average age of 11 years). Documentations, observations and interviews were used as data collection. The data were analysed quantitatively and through the Rasch model. The results show that mentoring during the implementation of the RADEC model can increase teachers’ knowledge of multi-literacy learning and teachers’ skills in planning and implementing the RADEC model. It can be concluded that the RADEC learning model contributes to a positive change in student learning, promotes 21st-century skills and includes multi-literacy skills. Thus, trainers can use the RADEC learning model to enhance teachers’ ability in teaching multi-literacy.           Keywords: Multi-literacy, RADEC model, teachers’ competence

Professional training for primary school teachers on the basis of the task-based approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S4) ◽  
pp. 409-418
Author(s):  
Karina Oleksenko ◽  
Olena Kryvylova ◽  
Natalya Sosnickaya ◽  
Valentin Molodychenko ◽  
Tetiana Kushnirova
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Elementary School Teachers ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Theoretical Justification ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Regulatory Documents ◽  
Pedagogical Literature

The aim of the article is the theoretical justification of the task-based approach as a methodological basis for the formation of future elementary school teachers' readiness to design the learning environment. The research methodology includes the analysis of regulatory documents, psychological and pedagogical literature and scientific research to determine the essence of the task-based approach and its implementation features in the formation of future elementary school teachers' readiness to design the learning environment. Distinguishing between the stages of preparing future elementary school teachers for designing learning environments and their purpose influenced the development of a specialized task system and practical problems which can be divided into three groups: adaptive, stabilizing, specialized. When selecting and developing specialized tasks and practical problems have been acted according to the following algorithm: assignment of a task or practical problem (adaptation, stabilization, specialization) determination of expected results in accordance with the components of readiness and the predominant choice; evaluation of the content complexity on the B. Bloom's scale.

scholarly journals Do cultural norms influence how teacher noticing is studied in different cultural contexts? A focus on expert norms of responding to students’ mathematical thinking

ZDM ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anika Dreher ◽  
Anke Lindmeier ◽  
Paul Feltes ◽  
Ting-Ying Wang ◽  
Feng-Jui Hsieh
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Mathematical Thinking ◽  
Instructional Quality ◽  
Specific Aspect ◽  
Teacher Noticing ◽  
Concurrent Process ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Mathematics Classrooms ◽  
Parallel Text ◽  
Open Question

Abstract As an important component of teaching expertise, teacher noticing is gaining growing attention in our intercultural mathematics education community. However, it is likely that in many cases the researchers’ perspectives on what characterizes high instructional quality in mathematics classrooms shape what they expect teachers to notice. In particular, it is an open question how potentially different norms of instructional quality influence how teacher noticing is operationalized in East Asian and Western cultures. Consequently, in a first step, this bicultural research project on teacher noticing in Taiwan and Germany focuses on exploring the researchers’ frames of reference for investigating teacher noticing. In this paper, we thus propose a concurrent process for developing vignettes and eliciting corresponding expert norms as a prerequisite to investigating teacher noticing in a way that is sensitive to different cultural contexts. In this process, the research teams in both countries developed in parallel, text vignettes in which, from their perspective, a breach of a norm regarding a specific aspect of instructional quality was integrated. In an online expert survey, these vignettes were then presented to German and Taiwanese researchers in mathematics education (19 from each country) to investigate whether these experts recognize the integrated breach of a norm. This approach allows researchers to identify potentially different norms of instructional quality in mathematics classrooms. In particular, by means of a specific representation of practice, it became visible how expert norms of responding to students’ mathematical thinking can be different from a Taiwanese compared to a German perspective.

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