Issues in Teacher Education articles

Recent articles from Issues in Teacher Education

Mathematics teacher education: innovations at work: guest editor's introduction.
September 22, 2008... 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...

Motivating prospective elementary school teachers to learn mathematics by focusing upon children's mathematical thinking.
September 22, 2008... Elementary school children in the United States are not developing acceptable levels of mathematical proficiency (National Center for Education Statistics, 1999), and a major concern of teacher educators is that teachers lack the depth and flexibility of mathematical understanding and the...

Professional vision in action: an exploratory study.
September 22, 2008... For the past two decades, much of mathematics teacher education and professional development has focused on helping teachers develop their subject matter knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge (Shulman, 1987). The idea has been that teachers need a deep understanding of mathematics, and...

Amplifying autonomy and collective conversation: using video iPods[TM] to support mathematics teacher learning.
September 22, 2008... Mathematics teaching and learning are inherently complex practices, and we continue to see reports that suggest that American teachers are not as successful at teaching mathematics as we might hope (e.g., Gonzales, et al., 2004). In this article, we explore how a seemingly ubiquitous new...

Moving beyond the barriers: a re-defined, multi-leveled partnership approach to mathematics teacher education.
September 22, 2008... The combination of federal exigency for Highly Qualified Teachers in every classroom (No Child Left Behind, 2001) and focus on teacher accountability has created a plethora of routes to teacher certification and continuing education. This urgent situation has placed a burden on schools of...