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- Title: Mathematics Teacher Education: Innovations at Work: Guest Editor's Introduction
- Author : Issues in Teacher Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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This issue of Issues in Teacher Education explores the continuum of teacher education through the content vehicle of mathematics, thereby encapsulating the journal's focus on probing the education of teachers from initial preparation through on-going professional development. Given the federal and state-level emphasis on content knowledge, the absence of Highly Qualified mathematics teachers, and recent efforts to recruit teachers in mathematics (e.g., The National Academies, 2007), this special issue is timely and of great importance to our readers. Expectations and ideals endorsed by current reform efforts in mathematics education (e.g., NCTM, 2000) challenge teachers in their thinking about mathematics teaching and learning. Teachers are asked to teach in ways that promote an integrated, connected view of mathematics, rather than a procedural, rule-based view. Research suggests that some teachers, particularly at the elementary level, lack crucial mathematical understandings and conceptions needed to support this approach to mathematics teaching, particularly when faced with implementing new curricula. Although this climate provides an exciting opportunity for mathematics teacher educators of both content and pedagogy, there is not a clear path as to how to integrate these two historically separate facets of teacher education to facilitate prospective teacher learning, as well as structure teacher education and professional development programs and supporting curricula. Students sometimes leave their teacher education programs with the same preconceived notions about content, teaching, and learning as when they enter, suggesting that new models and approaches that promote long-term change are needed.
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