Constructing Knowledge for Teaching Secondary Mathematics

Tasks to enhance prospective and practicing teacher learning

By: Orit Zaslavsky (Editor), Peter Sullivan (Editor)

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Hardcover | 19 April 2011

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Teacher education seeks to transform prospective and/or practicing teachers from neophyte possibly uncritical perspectives on teaching and learning to more knowledgeable, adaptable, analytic, insightful, observant, resourceful, reflective and confident professionals ready to address whatever challenges teaching secondary mathematics presents.

This transformation occurs optimally through constructive engagement in tasks that foster knowledge for teaching secondary mathematics. Ideally such tasks provide a bridge between theory and practice, and challenge, surprise, disturb, confront, extend, or provoke examination of alternatives, drawn from the context of teaching. We define tasks as the problems or activities that, having been developed, evaluated and refined over time, are posed to teacher education participants. Such participants are expected to engage in these tasks collaboratively, energetically, and intellectually with an open mind and an orientation to future practice. The tasks might be similar to those used by classroom teachers (e.g., the analysis of a graphing problem) or idiosyncratic to teacher education (e.g., critique of videotaped practice).

This edited volume includes chapters based around unifying themes of tasks used in secondary mathematics teacher education. These themes reflect goals for mathematics teacher education, and are closely related to various aspects of knowledge required for teaching secondary mathematics. They are not based on the conventional content topics of teacher education (e.g., decimals, grouping practices), but on broad goals such as adaptability, identifying similarities, productive disposition, overcoming barriers, micro simulations, choosing tools, and study of practice. This approach is innovative and appeals both to prominent authors and to our target audiences.

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Setting the Stage: A Conceptual Framework for Examining and Developing Tasks for Mathematics Teacher Education	p. 1

Instructional Alternatives via a Virtual Setting: Rich Media Supports for Teacher Development	p. 23
Classifying and Characterising: Provoking Awareness of the Use of a Natural Power in Mathematics and in Mathematical Pedagogy	p. 39
Designing Tasks that Challenge Values, Beliefs and Practices: A Model for the Professional Development of Practicing Teachers	p. 57
Pedagogical, Mathematical, and Epistemological Goals in Designing Cognitive Conflict Tasks for Teacher Education	p. 73
Working Mathematically on Teaching Mathematics: Preparing Graduates to Teach Secondary Mathematics	p. 89
Didactical Variability in Teacher Education	p. 103
Bridging Between Mathematics and Education Courses: Strategy Games as Generators of Problem Solving and Proving Tasks	p. 117

Mediating Mathematics Teaching Development and Pupils' Mathematics Learning: The Life Cycle of a Task	p. 143
Learning from the Key Tasks of Lesson Study	p. 161
Mathematical Problem Solving: Linking Theory and Practice	p. 177

Guiding Mathematical Inquiry in Mobile Settings	p. 191
Technology Integration in Secondary Mathematics: Enhancing the Professionalisation of Prospective Teachers	p. 209
Mathematical Machines: From History to Mathematics Classroom	p. 227

Using Video Episodes to Reflect on the Role of the Teacher in Mathematical Discussions	p. 249
Sensitivity to Student Learning: A Possible Way to Enhance Teachers' and Students' Learning?	p. 263
Overcoming Pedagogical Barriers Associated with Exploratory Tasks in a College Geometry Course	p. 279
Using a Model for Planning and Teaching Lessons as Part of Mathematics Teacher Education	p. 291
Building Optimism in Prospective Mathematics Teachers	p. 307
Index	p. 325
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Constructing Knowledge for Teaching Secondary Mathematics

Tasks to enhance prospective and practicing teacher learning

At a Glance

Hardcover

Shipping

How to return your order

Defective items

You Can Find This Book In

Other Editions and Formats

Paperback

Other Books By Peter Sullivan

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International Perspectives

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