TEACHERS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMEN - Bringing Understandings to Light

Informationen zum Autor Sophia Cohen Klappentext This book explores the learning that takes a teacher--elementary school teachers focusing on mathematics--from a traditional teaching practice to one that is focused on the ideas and understanding that students and teachers have of the subject matter. Zusammenfassung This book illustrates the experiences of elementary school teachers across one year's time as they participated in a teacher development seminar focused on mathematics, and as a result changed their beliefs, their knowledge, and their practices. It explo Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Foreword. Preface. Setting the Stage. Seeing Teachers and Students as Sense-Makers. Deepening One's Understanding of Subject Matter. Creating Teaching Practices That Focus on Understandings. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Sophia Cohen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2004
• EAN: 9780805842876
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-4287-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology