Teachers' Professional Development and the Elementary Mathematics Classroom : Bringing Understandings To Light

ISBN-13: 9780805842883 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 208 str.

Sophia R. Cohen; James Ed. Cohen

Opis

This book illustrates the experiences of elementary school teachers across one year's time as they participated in a teacher development seminar focused on mathematics, and as a result changed their beliefs, their knowledge, and their practices. It explores these experiences as a means of understanding the learning that takes a teacher from a more traditional teaching practice to one that is focused on the ideas and understandings that students and teachers have of the subject matter. The work emerges from and reports on a unique data set from a two-year study of teacher learning that was funded by the Spencer and MacArthur foundations. The teachers, whose work is at the center of this study, were participants in the Developing Mathematical Ideas seminar (DMI), a mathematics teacher development seminar for elementary school teachers. This seminar is one example of intensive, domain-specific professional development. In this seminar teachers study elementary mathematics content to deepen their own understanding of it, they study the development among children of the ideas central to elementary mathematics, and they experience a teaching and learning environment consistent with the p

Spis treści

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Setting the Stage. Seeing Teachers and Students as Sense-Makers. Deepening One's Understanding of Subject Matter. Creating Teaching Practices That Focus on Understandings. Conclusion.

O autorze

Sophia Cohen