Creating Laboratories of Practice for Developing Preservice Elementary Teachers' TPACK

2019 ◽  
pp. 155-172
Author(s):  
Amanda Thomas ◽  
Guy Trainin
Keyword(s):  
Student Teachers ◽  
Student Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Methods Course ◽  
Mathematics Methods ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Mathematics Methods Course ◽  
Scaffolded Learning

This case study outlines the components and outcomes of a program-wide approach to transforming elementary pre-service teachers' technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK). The approach emphasized the creation of laboratories of practice in which pre-service teachers learned about and enacted technology for teaching and learning. Pre-service teachers developed TPACK through carefully designed and scaffolded learning experiences in technology and content methods coursework, internship experiences, and student teaching. The case offers descriptions and outcomes within a mathematics methods course and across eleven cohorts of student teachers. TPACK survey results at the beginning and end of one course of the program, and measures of TPACK-efficacy and frequency of technology integration at the end of the program indicate that the programmatic approach led to TPACK growth among pre-service teachers.

scholarly journals Preparing Teachers to Notice Race in Classrooms: Contextualizing the Competencies of Preservice Teachers With Antiracist Inclinations

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 584-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niral Shah ◽  
Justin A. Coles
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Student Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Methods Course ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Mathematics Methods ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
The Impact

Race-focused teacher education has centered on changing preservice teachers’ racial beliefs and attitudes. In this article, we build on this work by exploring how preservice teachers identify and address issues of race and racism in the everyday work of teaching and learning. To conceptualize these processes, we propose the theoretical framework of “racial noticing,” which extends the literature on teacher noticing to the consideration of racial phenomena. Using a comparative case study design, this study focuses on three elementary preservice teachers (two identifying as White, one identifying as Black) with antiracist inclinations. Findings show that they demonstrated generally strong competencies with racial noticing during a mathematics methods course, but that contextual factors influenced shifts in racial noticing during student teaching. We argue that race-focused teacher education centered on noticing the impact of race and racism in learning settings can make the practice of antiracist teaching more tractable for preservice teachers.

scholarly journals Learning to teach mathematics with robots: Developing the ‘T’ in technological pedagogical content knowledge

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelli Casler-Failing
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Methods Course ◽  
Mathematics Methods ◽  
Methods Courses ◽  
Teacher Shortages ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Social Constructivist Theory ◽  
Specific Technology

A multiple case study was conducted to investigate how Lego robotics instruction incorporated into a middle grades mathematics methods course could inform pre-service teachers’ (PSTs) TPACK through the lens of Social Constructivist Theory. The qualitative data analysis revealed that when instruction on Lego robotics technology is integrated into semester long mathematics methods courses, PSTs are able to improve their TPACK knowledge in regard to the robotics. Overall, the findings suggest instruction of educational technology tools should be incorporated into methods courses over a longer duration of time, and in depth, to better support the development of PSTs’ TPACK. To meet the demands of the teacher shortages while simultaneously supporting the needs of school districts, this research provides preliminary evidence of the need to incorporate content-specific technology into all methods courses.

Critical Thinking and Mathematics Teaching and Learning

2019 ◽  
pp. 234-253
Author(s):  
Kelli Thomas ◽  
Douglas Huffman ◽  
Mari Caballero
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Methods Course ◽  
Teaching Behaviors ◽  
Mathematics Methods ◽  
Mathematics Classrooms ◽  
Mathematics Methods Course ◽  
Mathematics Teaching And Learning ◽  
And Mathematics

The purpose of this chapter was to investigate pre-service teachers' noticing of children's critical thinking and views towards eliciting and using students' critical thinking in mathematics teaching. A mixed method study was used to provide a range of perspectives on pre-service teachers' views towards mathematics. The results indicated that the pre-service teachers initially held beliefs that mathematics teaching and learning consist of transferring information and students absorbing and memorizing information. The pre-service teachers based their instructional responses on experiences they had as students in elementary mathematics classrooms. The pre-service teachers described what they had observed about teaching mathematics as the ideal without regard for how the teaching behaviors they observed might influence children's critical thinking about mathematics. After completing a mathematics methods course, the pre-service teachers held beliefs more consistent with a reform-oriented classroom and demonstrated growth in their ability to notice children's mathematics thinking.

A Longitudinal Perspective of Early Career Music Teachers: Contexts, Interactions, and Possible Selves

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Dabback
Keyword(s):  
Student Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Possible Selves ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Possible Selves Theory

The purpose of this multiple case study was to follow the development of three music educators during their student teaching semesters and into the first years of their careers. Possible selves theory provided a framework for exploring the links between cognition, expectations, and motivation. Interviewees negotiated their social and physical contexts, which in turn shaped their self-images and conceptions of teaching and learning. Identities were constructed through personal experiences and formal study with significant others, including influential teachers, cooperating teachers, and colleagues. In these respects, classrooms served as the laboratories in which teachers learned how to build crucial relationships with their students, tested and reshaped emerging identities, and based actions and evaluation on their possible selves.

Developing an Online Mathematics Methods Course for Preservice Teachers

2014 ◽  
pp. 308-317
Author(s):  
Drew Polly
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Methods Course ◽  
Mathematics Methods ◽  
Mathematics Pedagogy ◽  
Design Based Research ◽  
Mathematics Methods Course ◽  
Online Mathematics

This chapter presents the theoretical background and overview of the design of an asynchronous online mathematics pedagogy course taken by graduate students who are seeking their initial teacher certification. The authors provide the theoretical underpinnings for the design of the course, and then using design-based research, describe the refinement of the course over three iterations of designing and implementing the course. Lastly, implications for the design and delivery of asynchronous online courses are discussed.

Evaluation of a Hybrid Mathematics Methods Course for Novice Teachers

2016 ◽  
pp. 1228-1247
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Novice Teachers ◽  
Discussion Board ◽  
Methods Course ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Mathematics Methods ◽  
Course Structure ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Mathematics Methods Course ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Online Format

This paper reports the evaluation of a hybrid mathematics methods course for novice teachers. During a fifteen-week semester, participants met face-to-face for approximately 60% of the semester and took advantage of an online format for the other 40% of the semester. Online activities included asynchronous discussion board postings, synchronous chats as an entire class, synchronous chats in small groups, evaluation of technology tools, and electronic surveys. The researcher used participants' feedback to evaluate the effectiveness of this hybrid format. In addition, the researcher reflected upon his own experiences as instructor to inform future course structure decisions. Within the context of the Rich Environments for Active Learning (REAL) framework, results suggest that cooperative support was a key component of the effectiveness of the experience. Further, participants emphasized one particular generative learning activity as an effective component of this course. Finally, this paper discusses implications for mathematics professional development facilitators.

Adding a New Dimension to Teaching Mathematics Educators

2019 ◽  
pp. 390-412
Author(s):  
Anna Wan ◽  
Jessica Ivy
Keyword(s):  
3D Printing ◽  
Digital Fabrication ◽  
Secondary Mathematics ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Methods Course ◽  
Fabrication Technology ◽  
Mathematics Methods ◽  
Mathematical Content ◽  
Mathematics Methods Course ◽  
Post Assessment

Technology has the potential to transform the classroom, build access to new mathematical content, and provide access to students through unique representations. For this study, the authors considered the transformational promise of digital fabrication technology, specifically 3D printing, in a setting comprised of pre-service teachers. An introduction to digital fabrication session was implemented in a secondary mathematics methods course. Participants were assessed both prior to the experience and after, using an adapted TPACK developmental self-report survey to consider TPACK themes and subthemes. In this chapter, the authors describe ideas that emerged from narratives provided by participants, patterns of change noted from pre- to post-assessment, and three cases that emerged representing students who experienced the most positive changes, most negative changes, and least amount of change on self-perceived levels.

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