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Jesse L. M. Wilkins 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2008,11(2):139-164
This study investigated 481 in-service elementary teachers’ level of mathematical content knowledge, attitudes toward mathematics,
beliefs about the effectiveness of inquiry-based instruction, use of inquiry-based instruction and modeled the relationship
among these variables. Upper elementary teachers (grades 3–5) were found to have greater content knowledge and more positive
attitudes toward mathematics than primary teachers (grades K-2). There was no difference in teachers’ beliefs about effective
instruction, but primary level teachers were found to use inquiry-based instruction more frequently than upper elementary
teachers. Consistent with Ernest’s [Ernest (1989). The knowledge, beliefs and attitudes of the mathematics teacher: A model.
Journal of Education for Teaching, 15(1), 13–33] model of mathematics teaching, content knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs were all found to be related to teachers’
instructional practice. Furthermore, beliefs were found to partially mediate the effects of content knowledge and attitudes
on instructional practice. Content knowledge was found to be negatively related to beliefs in the effectiveness of inquiry-based
instruction and teachers’ use of inquiry-based instruction in their classrooms. However, overall, teachers with more positive
attitudes toward mathematics were more likely to believe in the effectiveness of inquiry-based instruction and use it more
frequently in their classroom. Teacher beliefs were found to have the strongest effect on teachers’ practice. Implications
for the goals and objectives of elementary mathematics methods courses and professional development are discussed.
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Jesse L. M. WilkinsEmail: |
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Tara E. Higgins Michele W. Spitulnik 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2008,17(5):511-521
Professional development is critical in supporting teachers’ use of technological tools in classrooms. This review of empirical
research synthesizes the effective elements of professional development programs that support science teachers in learning
about technology integration. Studies are examined that explore how professional development supports technology use within
inquiry-based and traditional science instruction. Implications for future research are discussed in four areas: understanding
and building on teachers’ beliefs about science and technology; supporting teacher learning by supporting teachers’ examination
of students’ work; using technology to support teacher communities and social networks; and sustaining teachers’ learning
beyond formal professional development programs.
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Tara E. HigginsEmail: |
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This survey study explored high school science teachers’ challenges and needs specific to their growing English language learning
(ELL) student population. Thirty-three science teachers from 6 English as a Second language (ESL)-center high schools in central
Virginia participated in the survey. Issues surveyed were (a) strategies used by science teachers to accommodate ELL students’
special needs, (b) challenges they experienced, and (c) support and training necessary for effective ELL instruction. Results
suggest that language barriers as well as ELL students’ lack of science foundational knowledge challenged teachers most. Teachers
perceived that appropriate instructional materials and pedagogical training was most needed. The findings have implications
for science teacher preservice and inservice education in regard to working with language minority students.
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Jacqueline T. McDonnoughEmail: |
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Christopher Day 《Journal of Educational Change》2008,9(3):243-260
This paper is based upon a unique mixed methods 4-year research project which focused upon the variations in teachers’ work,
lives, and effectiveness of 300 elementary and secondary school teachers in a range of 100 schools across seven regions of
England. Its findings challenge linear conceptions of teacher development and expertise and provide new understandings of
the effects of personal, school and broader policy contexts upon professional life phase trajectories and teachers’ emotional
identities. It finds connections between these and teachers’ commitment, resilience, and effectiveness. This paper discusses
these in relation to the school standards and teacher retention agendas.
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Christopher DayEmail: |
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Susan Brady Margie Gillis Tara Smith MaryEllen Lavalette Linda Liss-Bronstein Evelyn Lowe Wendy North Evelyn Russo T. Diane Wilder 《Reading and writing》2009,22(4):425-455
The study examined the efficacy of an intensive form of professional development (PD) for building the knowledge of first-grade
teachers in the areas of phonological awareness and phonics. The PD featured frequent in-class support from highly knowledgeable
mentors for one school year, in addition to an introductory two-day summer institute and monthly workshops. Pre- and post-assessment
of participants on a Teacher Knowledge Survey (TKS) indicated weak knowledge of phonological awareness and phonics concepts
prior to PD and large, significant gains in each area by year-end. In addition, to investigate factors potentially associated
with teachers’ responses to training, a Teacher Attitude Survey (TAS) was administered before and after the PD. The TAS measured
teachers’ attitudes regarding PD, external and internal motivation to participate, intentions to actively engage in learning
and implementing new instructional methods, sense of self-efficacy as reading instructors, and premises about reading instruction
(e.g., about whole language). Attitudes on a subset of these factors, teachers’ initial knowledge scores on the TKS, and years
of teaching experience (estimated by age) accounted for significant portions of the variance in performance on the TKS after
training.
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Susan BradyEmail: |
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Tim Rowland 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2008,69(2):149-163
This empirical paper considers the different purposes for which teachers use examples in elementary mathematics teaching,
and how well the actual examples used fit these intended purposes. For this study, 24 mathematics lessons taught by prospective
elementary school teachers were videotaped. In the spirit of grounded theory, the purpose of the analysis of these lessons
was to discover, and to construct theories around, the ways that these novice teachers could be seen to draw upon their mathematics
teaching knowledge-base in their lesson preparation and in their observed classroom instruction. A highly-pervasive dimension
of the findings was these teachers’ choice and use of examples. Four categories of uses of examples are identified and exemplified:
these are related to different kinds of teacher awareness.
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Tim RowlandEmail: |
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Physics teachers’ approaches to teaching physics are generally considered to be linked to their views about physics. In this
qualitative study, the views about physics held by a group of physics teachers whose teaching practice was traditional were
explored and compared with the views held by physics teachers who used conceptual change approaches. A particular focus of
the study was teachers’ views about the role of mathematics in physics. The findings suggest the traditional teachers saw
physics as discovered, close approximations of reality while the conceptual change teachers’ views about physics ranged from
a social constructivist perspective to more realist views. However, most teachers did not appear to have given much thought
to the nature of physics or physics knowledge, nor to the role of mathematics in physics.
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Pamela MulhallEmail: |
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Jane-Jane Lo Theresa J. Grant Judith Flowers 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2008,11(1):5-22
This article reports challenges faced by prospective elementary teachers as they revisited whole number multiplication through
a sequence of tasks that required them to develop and justify reasoning strategies for multiplication. Classroom episodes
and student work are used both to illustrate these challenges, as well as to demonstrate growth over time. Implications for
the design of mathematics courses for prospective teachers’ are discussed. Although the study is situated in the context of
multiplication, it has implications for teachers reasoning and justification in other areas of mathematics.
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Judith FlowersEmail: |
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Lisa S. Goldstein 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2008,36(3):253-260
Many early childhood practitioners in the U.S. are experiencing tension between their desire to offer students developmentally
appropriate learning experiences and their obligation to teach the academic knowledge and skills mandated by their states.
However, careful examination of the DAP guidelines’ definition of culturally appropriate practice reveals a significant sociopolitical
dimension that has been obscured by the field’s tight focus on the sociocultural dimension. Because standards-based education
is an explicit feature of the sociopolitical landscape of U. S. public education, teaching the standards is developmentally
appropriate practice. Implementation of this broadened understanding of DAP adds new complexity to early childhood teachers’
work. This article offers ideas drawn from Bronfenbrenner, Vygotsky, and Dewey as sources of theoretical support and provides
examples of strategic decision making—illustrated with examples drawn from Texas kindergartens—that can assist teachers in
managing the curricular and instructional complexities that accompany the broadened understanding of DAP.
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Lisa S. GoldsteinEmail: Email: |
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Recent studies of elementary teachers’ knowledge about reading have been built on the premise that teachers need thorough
knowledge about language and reading processes, but these studies have provided only limited evidence that teachers’ performance
on tests of such knowledge contributes to their students’ reading achievement. The present study was designed to examine the
contribution of first- through third-grade teachers’ knowledge about early reading to their students’ improvement on tests
of word analysis and reading comprehension, controlling for socio-demographic characteristics of students, their prior reading
achievement, and teachers’ educational attainment, professional experiences, and socio-demographic characteristics. Preliminary
analyses indicated that the test of teachers’ knowledge had adequate psychometric characteristics. However, performance on
this measure of teachers’ knowledge did not significantly explain students’ improvement on the two reading subtests. The complexity
of the factors that influence teachers’ knowledge acquisition and the context in which the study was carried out offer possible
explanations for these results. In addition, teachers’ content knowledge about reading might not be closely associated with
the practices they use in reading instruction, and therefore might not be significantly related to their students’ improvement
in reading over a year.
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Joanne F. CarlisleEmail: |
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Charalambos Y. Charalambous George N. Philippou Leonidas Kyriakides 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2008,67(2):125-142
This paper focuses on efficacy beliefs with respect to teaching mathematics; it aims at testing and validating an existing
scale for measuring efficacy beliefs in the domain of mathematics, examining the development of preservice teachers’ efficacy
beliefs in mathematics during fieldwork, and identifying factors that contribute to the development of these beliefs. Exploratory
factor analysis applied to longitudinal data collected through a questionnaire administered to almost 90 preservice teachers
elicited a two-factor model, reflecting efficacy beliefs in mathematics instruction and classroom management. Using cluster
analysis, we found four patterns in the development of preservice teachers’ efficacy beliefs regarding these two factors.
Our analysis of semi-structured interviews with eight participants representing these four patterns suggested that preservice
teachers’ efficacy beliefs were mainly informed by experimentation with teaching and interaction with mentors, tutors, peers,
and pupils. Based on our findings, we draw implications for mathematics preservice teacher education and provide suggestions
for future research.
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Charalambos Y. CharalambousEmail: |
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Improving mathematics instruction through lesson study: a theoretical model and North American case 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Catherine C. Lewis Rebecca R. Perry Jacqueline Hurd 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2009,12(4):285-304
This article presents a theoretical model of lesson study, an approach to instructional improvement that originated in Japan.
The theoretical model includes four lesson study features (investigation, planning, research lesson, and reflection) and three
pathways through which lesson study improves instruction: changes in teachers’ knowledge and beliefs; changes in professional
community; and changes in teaching–learning resources. The model thus suggests that development of teachers’ knowledge and
professional community (not just improved lesson plans) are instructional improvement mechanisms within lesson study. The
theoretical model is used to examine the “auditable trail” of data from a North American lesson study case, yielding evidence
that the lesson study work affected each of the three pathways. We argue that the case provides an “existence proof” of the
potential effectiveness of lesson study outside Japan. Limitations of the case are discussed, including (1) the nature of
data available from the “auditable trail” and (2) generalizability to other lesson study efforts.
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Catherine C. LewisEmail: |
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Charalambos Y. Charalambous Areti Panaoura George Philippou 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2009,71(2):161-180
Scholars and teacher educators alike agree that teachers’ beliefs and attitudes toward mathematics are key informants of teachers’
instructional approaches. Therefore, it has become clear that, in addition to enriching preservice teachers’ (PSTs) knowledge,
teacher education programs should also create opportunities for prospective teachers to develop productive beliefs and attitudes
toward teaching and learning mathematics. This study explored the effectiveness of a mathematics preparatory program based
on the history of mathematics that aimed at enhancing PSTs’ epistemological and efficacy beliefs and their attitudes toward
mathematics. Using data from a questionnaire administered four times, the study traced the development of 94 PSTs’ beliefs
and attitudes over a period of 2 years. The analysis of these data showed changes in certain dimensions of the PSTs’ beliefs
and attitudes; however, other dimensions were found to change in the opposite direction to that expected. Differences were
also found in the development of the PSTs’ beliefs and attitudes according to their mathematical background. The data yielded
from semi-structured follow-up interviews conducted with a convenience sample of PSTs largely corroborated the quantitative
data and helped explain some of these changes. We discuss the effectiveness of the program considered herein and draw implications
for the design of teacher education programs grounded in the history of mathematics.
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Charalambos Y. CharalambousEmail: |
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In this article, we describe the results of a study of chemistry high school teachers’ beliefs (N = 7) of the chemistry curriculum and their roles, their beliefs on the teacher as developer of materials, and their beliefs
about professional development. Teachers’ beliefs influence the implementation of a curriculum. We view the use of a new curriculum
as a learning process, which should start at teachers’ prior knowledge and beliefs. The results reveal that it is possible
to develop a new curriculum in which teachers’ beliefs are taken as a starting point. Promising approaches to prepare teachers
for a new curriculum is to let them (co)develop and use curriculum materials: It creates ownership, and strengthens and develops
teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK).
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Fer CoendersEmail: |
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We study in this article mathematics teachers’ documentation work: looking for resources, selecting/designing mathematical tasks, planning their succession, managing available artifacts,
etc. We consider that this documentation work is at the core of teachers’ professional activity and professional development.
We introduce a distinction between available resources and documents developed by teachers through a documentational genesis process, in a perspective inspired by the instrumental approach. Throughout their documentation work, teachers develop documentation systems, and the digitizing of resources entails evolutions of these systems. The approach we propose aims at seizing these evolutions,
and more generally at studying teachers’ professional change.
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Luc TroucheEmail: |
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Cecilia Agudelo-Valderrama Barbara Clarke Alan J. Bishop 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2007,10(2):69-93
This article arises from a study whose overall purpose was to investigate the relationship between Colombian mathematics teachers’
conceptions of beginning algebra and their conceptions of their own teaching practices. The teachers’ understandings of their teaching practices were explored with a view to unravelling their
conceptions of change in their teaching. Focusing on the perspectives of teachers afforded opportunities that exposed the
powerful role that the teachers’ conceptions of social/institutional factors of teaching played in their conceptions of their
practices. The degree to which the teachers attributed these (external) factors as crucial reasons for what they do in their
teaching was the basis of a categorisation of their conceptions of the crucial determinants of their teaching practices into
three types. The findings are particularly relevant to our understanding of the stability of mathematics teaching approaches
in the Colombian context but have likely implications for a range of international education contexts. Specific implications
for the development of the research into teachers’ conceptions of mathematics and its teaching, and for teacher education
programmes are presented.
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Alan J. BishopEmail: |
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Video has assumed an increasingly prominent role in teacher education, particularly in the form of the viewing of videotaped
class lessons by preservice teachers. Yet there is little research that confirms whether preservice teachers attend to the
aspects of the video(s) that teacher educators anticipate or desire. This article explores this issue and reports on the impact
of video viewing as a means to improve teachers’ ability to be observers of classroom practice. We utilized a pre- and post-test
design to measure the quantity and type of classroom events that preservice mathematics teachers noticed before and after
a teaching methods course where improving observation skills was an explicit goal. The results of the pre-assessment suggest
that preservice teachers generally do not enter teaching methods courses with well-developed observation skills. The post-assessment
indicates that the course led to significant increases in preservice teachers’ observation skills, particularly in teachers’
ability to notice features of the classroom environment, mathematical content of a lesson, and teacher and student communication
during a lesson.
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Jon R. StarEmail: |
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The study presented in this article investigates forms of mathematical interaction in different social settings. One major interest is to better understand mathematics teachers’ joint professional
discourse while observing and analysing young students mathematical interaction followed by teacher’s intervention. The teachers’
joint professional discourse is about a combined learning and talking between two students before an intervention by their
teacher (setting 1) and then it is about the students learning together with the teacher during their mathematical work (setting
2). The joint professional teachers’ discourse constitutes setting 3. This combination of social settings 1 and 2 is taken
as an opportunity for mathematics teachers’ professionalisation process when interpreting the students’ mathematical interactions
in a more and more professional and sensible way. The epistemological analysis of mathematical sign-systems in communication
and interaction in these three settings gives evidence of different types of mathematical talk, which are explained depending
on the according social setting. Whereas the interaction between students or between teachers is affected by phases of a process-oriented
and investigated talk, the interaction between students and teachers is mainly closed and structured by the ideas of the teacher
and by the expectations of the students.
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Heinz SteinbringEmail: |
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The main goal of the study reported in our paper is to characterize teachers’ choice of examples in and for the mathematics
classroom. Our data is based on 54 lesson observations of five different teachers. Altogether 15 groups of students were observed,
three seventh grade, six eighth grade, and six ninth grade classes. The classes varied according to their level—seven classes
of top level students and six classes of mixed—average and low level students. In addition, pre and post lesson interviews
with the teachers were conducted, and their lesson plans were examined. Data analysis was done in an iterative way, and the
categories we explored emerged accordingly. We distinguish between pre-planned and spontaneous examples, and examine their
manifestations, as well as the different kinds of underlying considerations teachers employ in making their choices, and the
kinds of knowledge they need to draw on. We conclude with a dynamic framework accounting for teachers’ choices and generation
of examples in the course of teaching mathematics.
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Orit ZaslavskyEmail: |
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The power of Colombian mathematics teachers’ conceptions of social/institutional factors of teaching
Cecilia Agudelo-Valderrama 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2008,68(1):37-54
In this paper I shall discuss data from a study on Colombian mathematics teachers’ conceptions of their own teaching practices
of beginning algebra, which led to the development of a theoretical model of teachers’ thought structures designed as a thinking
tool at the initial stage of the study. With a focus on the perspectives of teachers, the study investigated the relationship
between the teachers’ conceptions of beginning algebra and their conceptions of their own teaching practices, with a view
to unravelling their conceptions of change in their practices. Significant findings which threw light on the aforementioned
relationship have been presented in Agudelo-Valderrama, Clarke and Bishop (2007), highlighting a direct association between
a teacher’s conceptions of the nature of beginning algebra, the crucial determinants of her/his teaching practice, and her/his
attitude to change. After an overview of the study, this paper focuses on specific evidence which clearly shows that in contrast
to the strong relationship between a teacher’s conceptions of mathematics and her/his teaching practice, assumed in the theoretical
model of teachers’ thought structures, the teachers see a strong relationship between their conceptions of social/institutional
factors of teaching and what they do in their teaching. Implications of the findings for teacher education in Colombia are
identified.
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Cecilia Agudelo-ValderramaEmail: |