Issues in Teacher Education articles from September 2008

Issues in Teacher Education archives from September 2008

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Curricular knowledge and the work of mathematics teacher educators.
September 22, 2008... Mathematics teacher educator-researcher-mentor is a mouthful, but an accurate title to describe the range of roles of mathematics teacher educators across the nation and around the world. There is limited research about the professional...

Non-themed articles introduction.
September 22, 2008... The articles that follow were accepted for publication through the general submission process under the editorship of Margaret Olebe. Occasionally Issues in Teacher Education will combine themed and non-themed articles in a single issue to...

Factors influencing teacher candidates' participation in a paid field experience with urban students.
September 22, 2008... To the dismay of educators, reformists, politicians, and American citizens, the achievement gap between the haves and the have-nots continues to exist. When educational standards are set and then used to compare districts, there is an...

"You wish it could speak for itself": examining the use of aesthetic representation in an elementary teacher preparation program.
September 22, 2008... As I go over the syllabus on the first day of the semester, most undergraduate pre-service teachers listen quietly and occasionally take some notes. It seems business-as-usual until I get to the explanation of the final assignment--the...