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

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...

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Main Author: Zaslavsky, Orit
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Sullivan, Peter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Series:Mathematics teacher education ; v. 6.
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Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only).
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.