Categories of teachers knowledge
The following notes are from the literature review of Tim Burgess in his paper Statistical Knowledge for Teaching: Exploring It in the Classroom published in For the Learning of Mathematics, Vol.29,...
View ArticleWhat is mathematical knowledge for teaching?
It was Shulman in 1986 who first thought and recognized that the nature of knowledge for teaching a subject matter is different from knowledge of the subject matter itself (content knowledge or CK) and...
View ArticleThe Teacher and the Curriculum
Teachers don’t merely deliver the curriculum. They develop, define it, and reinterpret it too. It is what teachers think, what teachers believe and what teachers do at the level of the classroom that...
View ArticleLesson Study Research and Practice
Lesson Study originated in Japan 140 years ago. It is the main professional development activity of their teachers. Since the release of J.W. Stigler’s The Teaching Gap which compares math teaching...
View ArticleTeachers’ Conceptions of Problem Solving
Grouws, Good and Dougherty interviewed junior high school teachers to determine their conceptions about problem solving and its instruction. They found four categories of conceptions of problem solving...
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