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Developing pre-service teachers’ knowledge for teaching in the early years: Selecting and sequencing
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Livy, S and Downton, A and Muir, T, Developing pre-service teachers' knowledge for teaching in the early years: Selecting and sequencing, Mathematics Teacher Education and Development (Online), 19, (3) pp. 17-35. ISSN 2203-1499 (2017) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
Developing pre-service teachers’ (PSTs’) knowledge of pedagogical practices can be particularly challenging within university classrooms. Teacher educators are well placed to provide PSTs with theoretical perspectives on pedagogical practices; what is particularly challenging, however, is linking theory with practice and developing PSTs’ breadth and depth of knowledge in mathematical concepts. In this article, we describe the experiences undertaken by two cohorts of PSTs during their tutorials designed to assist them to notice and discuss Year 2 students’ responses to an array task. Open-coding was used to analyse PSTs’ selection and sequencing of five different work samples. Findings indicated that while the authentic work samples assisted the PSTs to make connections with the students’ mathematical understandings, the lesson also provided an insight into the PSTs’ own foundation knowledge of mathematical understandings relating to children’s development of multiplicative thinking.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | pre-service teachers, challenging tasks, teacher knowledge, multiplicative thinking, early years |
Research Division: | Education |
Research Group: | Curriculum and pedagogy |
Research Field: | Mathematics and numeracy curriculum and pedagogy |
Objective Division: | Education and Training |
Objective Group: | Other education and training |
Objective Field: | Other education and training not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Muir, T (Associate Professor Tracey Muir) |
ID Code: | 123522 |
Year Published: | 2017 |
Deposited By: | Education |
Deposited On: | 2018-01-10 |
Last Modified: | 2018-06-21 |
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