scholarly journals Teacher Educators Learning with Prospective Teachers: Finding Relevant Mathematics in Our (Their) Lives

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay M. Keazer ◽  
Eryn M. Maher
Keyword(s):  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Teacher Educators

Listening to the Experiences and Concerns of Pre-Service Teachers During Teaching Practice Programme

2021 ◽  
pp. 14-27
Author(s):  
Darshana Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Teacher Education Programme ◽  
Practice Teaching

Teaching Practice is widely recognised as the sine-qua-non of any teacher education programme. It is a component in the teacher preparation programme where prospective teachers are provided with an opportunity to put their theoretical studies into practice, get feedback, reflect on practice and consequently further improve their teaching skills. As teaching practice is an important component of a teacher education programme, considerable attention must be given to make it more effective and fruitful. This paper is based on a research study conducted to know pre-service teachers' experiences of the quality of teaching practice and the common concerns they have during teaching practice. On the basis of focussed group discussion a total of five themes were identified, these are (1) usefulness of teaching practice (2) experiences/concerns with pupils' behaviour (3) experiences/concerns with own behaviour (4) experiences/concerns with supervisors' behaviour (5) experiences/concerns with institutional and personal adjustments. The outcome of the focussed group discussion was used to prepare a structured questionnaire. Among other things, the study recommended rigorous practical training in lesson planning, demonstration lessons by teacher educators, simulated teaching before the commencement of practice teaching, school orientation programmes, a separate internship of two weeks and writing a journal by student teachers during teaching practice.

scholarly journals The Effect of Training of Prospective Secondary School Teachers in Flander’s System of Classroom Interaction Analysis on the Classroom Verbal Behavior of their Students

2017 ◽  
pp. 142-155
Author(s):  
Irshad Ahmad Farrukh Et al.,
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Group ◽  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Interaction Analysis ◽  
Interobserver Reliability ◽  
Classroom Interaction ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Teaching Learning

The teacher in any educational system performs a significant function since his role is to perpetuate society heritage and simultaneously to energize human resources towards social progress. The face of twentieth-century life is a rapidly changing society, a mentoring store of knowledge, amazing innovations and new understanding, theories and concepts about the teaching learning process. Efforts are being made all over the world to bring about the changes in all educational programs and practices according to the changing needs of society, time and subjects. The sample included 32 prospective teachers drawn from M.A. secondary education class. Eight male and eight female prospective teachers voluntarily participated in the study and formed the treatment group. Equal numbers of male and female prospective teachers, from the same population, were matched to the treatment group and formed a no-treatment group. Two trained observers categorized the classroom interaction on the teaching of Urdu English and Pakistan studies and gathered data in the quantitative form. The interobserver reliability coefficient on the data ranged from .97 to .99. Three Factors Analysis of Variance with repeated measures was applied to find the effect of training, gender and subjects on the verbal behavior of the prospective teachers. The interaction effects between training & gender, training & subjects were also studied. Training of teachers in Flander's system of classroom interaction analysis has a positive and significant effect on the verbal 'behaviour of their students on the greater (accessed) use of the following categories of student talk on Spontaneous talk and Questioning by students. Flanders and other systems of classroom interaction analysis should be included and introduced in teacher education programs of the country at all levels. Teacher educators of all levels should use this system of classroom interaction analysis along with other observation procedures for the supervision and guidance of prospective teachers in practice teaching.

scholarly journals Propuesta de un proceso de estudio de clases para la formación inicial del profesorado de Educación Infantil desde el paradigma del cuestionamiento del mundoProposal of a class study process for the initial training of Early Childhood Education teachers from the paradigm of questioning the world

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 694-710
Author(s):  
Elena María Lendínez ◽  
Francisco Javier García ◽  
Ana María Lerma
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Lesson Study ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Theory Of Didactic Situations ◽  
Study Process ◽  
Didactics Of Mathematics

ResumenComo docentes universitarios a cargo de la formación inicial del profesorado de Educación Infantil, observamos claros síntomas del paradigma monumentalista (visita a algunas obras tanto de Matemáticas como de Didáctica de las Matemáticas) cuando esta formación se organiza según el esquema tradicional clase de teoría/clase de prácticas. En este trabajo pretendemos identificar con nitidez el reto que supone la formación profesional funcional de futuros profesores, formular este reto como un problema de investigación dentro de la TAD, y explorar la potencialidad del dispositivo del estudio de clases como herramienta para desarrollar el equipamiento praxeológico del profesorado como respuesta a cuestiones profesionales vivas y auténticas. Se describirá el diseño de este dispositivo, para el caso de la formación inicial de profesorado de Educación Infantil sobre la enseñanza de los primeros conocimientos numéricos.Palabras-clave: Teoría Antropológica de lo Didáctico, estudio de clases, Educación infantil, Formación inicial de profesorado, Teoría de las Situaciones Didácticas.AbstractAs teacher educators involved in the initial education of prospective Early Childhood Education teachers, we observe evident signs of the monumentalistic paradigm (visiting some pre-stablished works in Mathematics as well as in Didactics of Mathematics) when the education of teachers is structured following the traditional scheme lecture-practice. In this paper, we aim at clearly identifying the challenge of a functional education of prospective teachers, formulating it as a research problem within the ATD, and exploring the potential of the lesson study device as tool to develop prospective teachers’ praxeological equipment as responses to live and authentic professional questions. We will describe de design of such device, for the case of the initial education of prospective Early Childhood Education teachers around the teaching of numbers and numbering.Keywords: Anthropological Theory of Didactics, study of classes, Early childhood education, Initial teacher training, Theory of Didactic Situations. 

scholarly journals Japanese and Swedish Mathematics Teacher Educators’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge – An Institutional Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yukiko Asami-Johansson ◽  
Iiris Attorps
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Pedagogical Content Knowledge ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Mathematics Teacher Educators ◽  
Structured Problem Solving ◽  
Area Determination

The aim of this paper is to investigate which kind of conditions and constraints affect Japanese and Swedish teacher educators’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). We analyse the praxeologies of the lessons in which the educators teach area determination. Our study shows that the Japanese teacher educators’ PCK are more explicitly shared by the community of the teacher educators compared to the Swedish counterpart. Also, the detailed Japanese curriculum and the structured problem solving approach promote to illustrate how to construct rich mathematical and didactical organisations for prospective teachers.

Promoting Active Learning in Mathematics Teacher Education

2017 ◽  
pp. 269-284
Author(s):  
Rukiye Didem Taylan
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Mathematics Teacher Education ◽  
Pedagogical Content

Teacher educators have a responsibility to help prospective teachers in their professional growth. It is important that teacher educators not only teach prospective teachers about benefits of active learning in student learning, but that they also prepare future teachers in using pedagogical methods aligned with active learning principles. This manuscript provides examples of how mathematics teacher educators can promote prospective teachers' active learning and professional growth by bringing together the Flipped Classroom method with video content on teaching and learning as well as workplace learning opportunities in a pedagogy course. The professional learning of prospective teachers is framed according to the components of the Pedagogical Content Knowledge (Park & Olive, 2008; Shulman, 1986). Implications for future trends in teacher education are provided.

scholarly journals Influence of Teacher Educators on the Development of Prospective Teachers’ Personal Epistemology and Tolerance

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824402091463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Ning ◽  
Irfan Ahmed Rind ◽  
Muhammad Mujtaba Asad
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Personal Epistemology ◽  
Colleges Of Education ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Bachelor Of Education ◽  
Teacher Students

This article examines the influence of teacher educators (TEs) on the development of epistemology and tolerance among the prospective teachers (PTs) studying in a newly introduced 4-year Bachelor of Education (BEd) program offered in the Departments of Education of Universities (DoEUs) and Government Colleges of Education (GCEs) in Pakistan. The new BEd is part of United States Agency for International Development (USAID)–led teacher education reforms in Pakistan to curtail the teaching of extremist values that are implicated in breeding extremism. The stated policies and recommended practices of the program are based on the principles of constructivism, critical thinking, creativity, and effective communication, which are expected to shape the PTs’ ways to conceptualize knowledge and knowing, and ultimately their attitude to different social dimensions. Considering that the aforementioned reforms have not focused on the development of the TEs, it is worth examining how the traditionally trained TEs implement this new program, and to what extent they are shaping the epistemology and attitude of the PTs. Using a descriptive quantitative pre–post intervention design, this study collected data on the epistemic and tolerance development of PTs of a DoEU and a GCE. Data were also collected on TEs’ epistemology, tolerance, teacher–students interactions, and teaching strategies. The analysis highlights a significant relation of TEs’ epistemology and tolerance on their teaching strategies as well as on the development of the PTs’ epistemology and tolerance.

Modeling Compassion in Critical, Justice-Oriented Teacher Education

2008 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 652-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Gehlbach Conklin
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Diverse Students ◽  
Successful Teachers

As the work of teacher education becomes increasingly focused on the challenges of helping mostly white, monolingual, middle-class prospective teachers become compassionate,successful teachers of racially, culturally, linguistically, economically, and academically diverse students, some teacher educators struggle to find compassion for the prospective teachers they teach. Motivated by this concern and drawing on feminist and Buddhist theories, Hilary Conklin argues that many teacher educators would benefit from a renewed consideration of modeling the pedagogy they hope prospective teachers will employ. In this article, she analyzes and brings together the work on critical, justice-oriented approaches to teacher education, relationships in teaching, modeling as pedagogy, and the Buddhist notion of compassion to articulate a pedagogy of modeling in critical, justice-oriented teacher education. Conklin proposes that such a pedagogy has the potential to move us closer to transformative teacher education.

Exemplify what you explicate

1973 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-211
Author(s):  
Evelyn Sowell
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Education Faculty ◽  
Education Students ◽  
University Of Houston ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
The University ◽  
Teacher Education Students

That professor! What he says is great—but that idea just won't work in the classroom!” These statements may be common among some teacher education students. Such comments are now heard much less frequently, however, around the University of Houston. The mathematics education faculty is experimenting with a competency- based program, as part of a collegewide endeavor, that requires prospective teachers to actually use in their classrooms what they hear and read about teaching. Initial experiences with this program suggest several advantages both for teachers in training and for teacher educators. This article describes some features and benefits of one type of approach to competency-based mathematics education.

Assessing Prospective Teachers' Analysis of Teaching: How Well Can They Link Teaching and Learning?

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-49
Author(s):  
Christine Phelps-Gregory ◽  
Sandy M. Spitzer
Keyword(s):  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Minimal Effect ◽  
Mathematics Lesson ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Assessment Task ◽  
Question Prompts ◽  
Question Prompt ◽  
Analysis Of Teaching

One goal in teacher education is to prepare prospective teachers (PTs) for a career of systematic re_ ection and learning from their own teaching. One important skill involved in systematic re_ ection, which has received little research attention, is linking teaching actions with their outcomes on student learning; such links have been termed hypotheses. We developed an assessment task to investigate PTs' ability to create such hypotheses, prior to instruction. PTs (N = 16) each read a mathematics lesson transcript and then responded to four question prompts. The four prompts were designed to vary along research-based criteria to examine whether different contexts in_ uenced PTs' enactment of their hypothesizing skills. Results suggest that the assessment did capture PTs' hypothesizing ability and that there is room for teacher educators to help PTs develop better hypothesis skills. Additional analysis of the assessment task showed that the type of question prompt used had only minimal effect on PTs' responses.

Supporting Teacher Learning: Shaping Prospective Teachers' Justifications for Computation: Challenges and Opportunities

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-116
Author(s):  
Theresa J. Grant ◽  
Jane-Jane Lo ◽  
Judith Flowers
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Teachers ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
Prospective Elementary Teachers ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
Whole Number ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Mathematical Justification

This article discusses the challenges and opportunities that arose in attempting to support prospective elementary teachers in developing mathematical justifications in the context of wholenumber computation. Justification for whole-number computation is important for three reasons. First, this is the introductory topic in the first of three mathematics courses for prospective elementary teachers. Second, the number and operations strand is a major focus in elementary school. Third, in our experience as teacher educators, prospective elementary teachers have a difficult time considering how and why to teach whole-number computation in a conceptual manner. If prospective teachers' reasoning and justifications can be shaped in this area of mathematics, sense making and mathematical justification in other areas of mathematics can be shaped as well (Simon and Blume 1996).

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