Constructing Knowledge for Teaching Secondary Mathematics Tasks to enhance prospective and practicing teacher learning /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zaslavsky, Orit (Editor), Sullivan, Peter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Mathematics Teacher Education ; 6
• Subjects: Education.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Teaching.; Mathematics Education.; Teaching and Teacher Education.

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 challen...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Varying, Adapting and Considering Alternatives
• Classification and Noticing Similarities and Differences
• Conflict, Dilemmas and Their Resolution
• Designing and Solving Problems
• Learning from the Study of Practice
• Selecting and Using Appropriate Tools for Teaching
• Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Student Learning and Becoming Sensitive to Students' Thinking and Inventive Ideas
• Sharing and Revealing Self, Peer, and Student Dispositions
• Summary.