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Content Knowledge for Teaching: What Makes It Special?
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In this paper, the authors developed a practice-based theory of content knowledge for teaching built on Shulman's (1986) notion of pedagogical content knowledge and applied it to the problem of teaching.Abstract:
This article reports the authors' efforts to develop a practice-based theory of content knowledge for teaching built on Shulman's (1986) notion of pedagogical content knowledge. As the concept of p...read more
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What Novice Approximations Teach Us About Ambitious Practice
TL;DR: The analysis surfaces and illustrates four pressure points—epistemic, academic, developmental, and managerial—that can short-circuit the development of novices’ efforts.
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Number sense of final year pre-service primary school teachers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the number sense of 47 final-year primary school pre-service teachers in Namibia and found that they demonstrated limited number sense and possessed very few of the indicators of number sense.
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Professional Learning Opportunities in a Practice-Based Teacher Education Programme about the Concept of Function
Abstract: This article aims to identify professional learning opportunities (PLO) experienced by mathematics teachers during an in-service course regarding their mathematical and didactical knowledge on the concept of function. The conceptual framework distinguishes between mathematical and didactical knowledge and characterises teacher learning and professional learning tasks. The research methodology is qualitative, using participant observation with audio and video recording and document collection. The results show that the professional learning tasks proposed enabled to identify PLO regarding mathematical knowledge of function, involving different ways of representing this concept by means of numeric tables and algebraic notation. Regarding didactical knowledge, there were also PLO supporting reflection about difficulties that the students find with the concept of function and about teaching resources and strategies to overcome those difficulties.
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Preservice Primary Teachers' Geometric Thinking: Is Pre-Tertiary Mathematics Education Building Sufficiently Strong Foundations?
Mairéad Hourigan,Aisling Leavy +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the geometric thinking levels of entry-level Irish preservice primary teachers and found limited geometric thinking among half of the cohort and question the extent to which pre-tertiary experiences develop appropriate foundations to facilitate a smooth transition into ITE mathematics programs.
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Developing a Questionnaire to Assess the Probability Content Knowledge of Prospective Primary School Teachers.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the development of a questionnaire designed to assess the probability content knowledge of prospective primary school teachers, based on curricular guidelines and primary school textbooks in Spain.
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Those Who Understand: Knowledge Growth in Teaching
TL;DR: In this paper, Shulman observa la historia de evaluaciones docentes, noting that the evaluación docente parecia preocuparse tanto por los conocimientos, como el siglo anterior se preoccupaba por la pedagogia.
CONOCIMIENTO Y ENSEÑANZA: FUNDAMENTOS DE LA NUEVA REFORMA 1 Knowledge and Teaching: Foundations of the New Reform
TL;DR: Lee S. Shulman as mentioned in this paper builds his foundation for teachi ng reform on an idea of teaching that emphasizes comprension and reasoning, transformation and reflection, and argues that this emphasis is justified by the resoluteness with which research and policy have so blatantly ignored those aspects of teaching in the past.
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Knowledge and Teaching: Foundations of the New Reform
TL;DR: Lee S. Shulman as mentioned in this paper builds his foundation for teaching reform on an idea of teaching that emphasizes comprehension and reasoning, transformation and reflection. "This emphasis is justified," he writes,...
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Adding It Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics
TL;DR: Adding It Up explores how students in pre-K through 8th grade learn mathematics and recommends how teaching, curricula, and teacher education should change to improve mathematics learning during these critical years.