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Witterholt, Martha; Goedhart, Martin; Suhre, Cor – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
Due to changes in Dutch mathematics education, teachers are expected to use new teaching methods such as enquiry-based teaching. In this study, we investigate how teachers design, implement and evaluate new methods for statistics teaching for 7th-graders during a professional development trajectory based on peer collaboration. We monitored…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Statistics
Xiong, Wang – Online Submission, 2013
This article focused on a deeper analysis of pre-service teachers' observations of video lessons based on the authentic classrooms across three stages in eight sessions in order to reveal their changes in the abilities to understand pedagogical content knowledge and the effects of specific observation frameworks introduced in the observation…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Video Technology, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Classroom Observation Techniques
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Atjonen, Paivi; Korkeakoski, Esko; Mehtalainen, Jouko – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2011
The general pedagogical knowledge of teachers is not often investigated in comparison to content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge. In this article, a more comprehensive outlook on teachers' skills and knowledge without regard to subject-specific nuances is discussed in relation to classroom management strategies, the organization of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Class Size, Educational Principles, Probability
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Drageset, Ove Gunnar – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2010
There is considerable research on teachers' beliefs and teachers' knowledge, but little empirical evidence exists as to the interplay between them. This article reports a study of 356 Norwegian teachers who answered a questionnaire and a multiple-choice test. Based on this study, the connections between two knowledge constructs and two beliefs…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Multiple Choice Tests, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Vamos, Sandra; Zhou, Mingming – American Journal of Health Education, 2007
Background: To date, few studies have been conducted to investigate the preparedness of health educators in Canadian school systems. Purpose: This study assessed practicing and pre-service teachers' self-perceptions of preparedness to teach health education in British Columbia K-12 classrooms. It also investigated factors related to their…
Descriptors: Health Education, Knowledge Level, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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van der Sandt, Suriza – Issues in the Undergraduate Mathematics Preparation of School Teachers, 2007
A two year study investigating the state of pre-service teachers' (PTs') (n=224), teachers' (n=18) and students' knowledge (n=123) of Grade 7 geometry (using the van Hiele theory (1986) and acquisition scales of Gutierrez, Jaime & Fortuny (1991)) is reported. Results indicate that both teachers and PTs fail to reach the expected level of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geometric Concepts, Grade 7, Teaching Experience
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de Almeida Reis, Maria Helena; Vilar, Duarte Goncalo Rei – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2006
Despite the current legislation requiring sex education as part of the school curriculum in Portugal, great obstacles to its implementation remain. Furthermore, sex education is far from being systematically administered. Thus, the main interest in our project was to validate a scale that measures teachers' attitudes towards sex education. There…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Test Construction, Questionnaires