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O'Meara, Niamh; Faulkner, Fiona – Irish Educational Studies, 2022
Research shows that teachers influence students' attitudes towards; performance in; and perceptions of a subject. Hence, the need to improve the teaching and learning of many curricular subjects has been well documented for many years. This paper focusses on efforts made to develop competence among out-of-field teachers of mathematics and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness
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Walsh, Richard; Fitzmaurice, Olivia; O'Donoghue, John – Irish Educational Studies, 2017
This study reports on the level of trigonometry Subject Matter Knowledge (SMK) of third and final-year pre-service second-level mathematics teachers () at an Irish third-level institution. The aim of the study was to determine if this sample of prospective teachers has an appropriate level of SMK to teach second-level trigonometric concepts. The…
Descriptors: Trigonometry, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers