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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.
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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...

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Investigating the Relationship Between Professional Noticing and Specialized Content Knowledge

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between elementary preservice interns' development of mathematical knowledge for teaching and their engagement with professional noticing of children's mathematical thinking through analysis of their students' work samples.
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Tell me why! Content knowledge predicts process-orientation of math researchers’ and math teachers’ explanations

TL;DR: Apparently, deep content knowledge helped instructors generate explanations with high process-orientation, a textual feature that served as a valuable scaffold for students’ understanding of mathematical procedures.
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How young children view mathematical representations: a study using eye-tracking technology

TL;DR: The authors explored the use of new advances in eye-tracking technology in investigating how young children view and interpret mathematical representations of multiplication and found that eye tracking technology can help in this respect because it allows data to be gathered concerning children's focus of attention.
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A capstone mathematics course for prospective secondary mathematics teachers

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe an innovative capstone mathematics course that links college mathematics with school mathematics and pedagogy, and describe how college juniors in a secondary mathematics teacher preparation program engage in leadership experiences that enable them to learn mathematics for teaching while developing student-centered pedagogical and assessment strategies.
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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.
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What does content knowledge means?

Content knowledge refers to the understanding and mastery of subject matter that teachers possess.