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Canan Günes; Andrew Kercher; Rina Zazkis – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2025
There is a growing research interest in examining how mathematics teacher educators grow professionally in their practice. In this study, we focus on the experiences of novice mathematics teacher educators who had been secondary mathematics teachers before becoming instructors of an elementary methods course. During individual, semi-structured…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Educators, Beginning Teachers, Elementary School Mathematics
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Jay, Lightning Peter – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2023
Although Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) has been a guiding framework for the development of novice teachers for decades, less attention has been paid to the PCK of teacher educators. This comparative case study analyzes the PCK of two social studies methods instructors as they teach the practice of facilitating historical discussions and…
Descriptors: Social Studies, College Faculty, Knowledge Level, Methods Courses
Lockley, Jeannie; Jackson, Nykela; Downing, Allison; Roberts, Jalynn – Online Submission, 2017
General education teachers are encouraged in many teacher education programs to differentiate instruction. The question was if instructors in teacher education programs modeled differentiated instruction (DI) in their teacher education programs. University instructors in teacher education programs were surveyed about their use of DI. DI included…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Individualized Instruction, Teacher Educators, Teacher Surveys
Taylor, Cynthia E. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Prospective mathematics teachers (PTs) need to develop pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics. Therefore, faculty who prepare teachers of mathematics (i.e., mathematics teacher educators [MTEs]), need to help PTs develop PCK in their courses (Marks, 1990; Mason, 2008). Yet, we know very little about…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Educators
Murawska, Jaclyn Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This research study examined the development of 43 preservice elementary school teachers' conceptual understanding of place value after participating in a research-based constructivist unit of instruction in place value. The preservice teachers were enrolled in one of three terms of an elementary mathematics methods course in a private midwestern…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Education
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Housner, Lynn Dale; And Others – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 1993
Examines the structure of pedagogical knowledge housed in the memory of an experienced teacher educator and the influence of this knowledge on changes in the pedagogical knowledge structures of prospective teachers. The study involved teachers enrolled in one of three different sections of the same teaching methods course. (GLR)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Knowledge Level, Methods Courses, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Brown, Carol A. – 2001
This study measured the level of implementation of computers and other technologies within teacher education method courses and noted how much computers were being utilized for developing problem solving abilities that could be used in the K-12 classroom curriculum. Surveys of Arkansas teacher educators from colleges affiliated with the National…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education