ERIC Number: EJ1218282
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 8
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Improving Our Practice as Mathematics Teacher Educators through Teaching Research
Liang, Su; Mira, Raquel Vallines; Prasad, Priya V.; Patterson, Cody L.
International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, v13 n2 Article 12 2019
Four mathematics teacher educators from a large, minority-serving university formed a teaching research group in Fall 2016. The goal for this project is to establish a repeated cycle of improving our mathematics content course for pre-service teachers and to contribute a shared knowledge base which rests on foundation of well-defined learning goals in mathematics courses for elementary pre-service teachers. Guide by the Continuous Improvement framework (Berk & Hiebert, 2009), we utilized a data-driven approach to improving teaching, as well as embedding a discussion of classroom implementation into an investigation of an innovation (or, in our case, a mathematical task). In this paper, we present an example of iterative task design for the topic of geometric similarity, we hope to share this as a model of professional development for mathematics teacher educators that highlights the benefits to our students and to ourselves.
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Educators, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Researchers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Faculty Development, Preservice Teacher Education, Mathematics Education, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Mathematics, Preservice Teachers, Concept Formation, Geometric Concepts
Centers for Teaching & Technology at Georgia Southern University. IJ-SoTL, Georgia Southern University, Henderson Library 1301, Statesboro, GA 30460. e-mail: sotlij@georgiasouthern.edu; Web site: http://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary Education
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Language: English
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