Research Trends in Mathematics Teacher Education

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lo, Jane-Jane (Editor), Leatham, Keith R. (Editor), Van Zoest, Laura R. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Research in Mathematics Education
• Subjects: Education.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Mathematics Education.

Research Trends in Mathematics Teacher Education Jane-Jane Lo, Keith R. Leatham, and Laura R. Van Zoest, editors     Research on the preparation and continued development of mathematics teachers is becoming an increasingly important subset of mathematics education research. Such research explores th...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Preface
• Contributors
• I. Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching in Teacher Education
• Understanding Preservice Teachers' Curricular Knowledge
• Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching and its Specificity to High School Geometry Instruction
• Using Coordination Classes to Analyze Preservice Middle-Grades Teachers' Difficulties in Determining Direct Proportion Relationships
• A Processes Lens on a Beginning Teacher's Personal and Classroom Mathematics
• Commentary on Section 1: Mounting Progress on Understanding Mathematics Teacher Content Knowledge
• II. Beliefs and Identities in Mathematics Teacher Education
• Photo-Elicitation/Photovoice Interviews to Study Mathematics Teacher Identity
• Teachers, Attributions, and Students' Mathematical Work
• Teacher Identity and Tensions of Teaching Mathematics in High-Stakes Accountability Contexts
• Teachers' Learning Journeys Toward Reasoning and Sense Making
• Commentary on Section 2: Attending to Teachers in Mathematics Teacher Education Research
• III. Tools and Techniques for Supporting Teacher Learning
• Preservice Elementary Mathematics Teachers' Emerging Ability to Write Problems to Build on Children's Mathematics
• Examining the Relationship Between Preservice Elementary Teachers' Attitutudes Toward Mathematics and Professional Noticing Capacities
• Transitions in Prospective Mathematics Teacher Noticing
• Teachers' Uses of a Learning Trajectory as a Tool for Mathematics Lesson Planning
• Commentary on Section 3: Research on Teachers' Focusing on Children's Thinking: Teacher Noticing and Learning Trajectories
• Overall Commentary: Understanding and Changing Teachers
• Author Index
• Subject Index.