TY - JOUR
T1 - Designing advanced mathematics courses to influence secondary teaching
T2 - fostering mathematics teachers’ “attention to scope”
AU - Wasserman, Nicholas H.
AU - Weber, Keith
AU - Fukawa-Connelly, Timothy
AU - McGuffey, William
N1 - Funding Information:
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under collaborative Grants DUE 1524739, DUE 1524681 and DUE 1524619. Any opinions, findings, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Nature B.V.
PY - 2019/8/1
Y1 - 2019/8/1
N2 - Most prospective secondary mathematics teachers complete a course in real analysis, yet view the content as unrelated to their future teaching. We leveraged a theoretically motivated instructional model to design modules for a real analysis course that could inform secondary teachers’ pedagogy, focusing on how this model was implemented in a single module about “attending to scope.” The central aim is to document how teachers’ experience in this real analysis course influenced their subsequent teaching. In the majority of lessons we observed from six participating teachers, the following occurred: (i) the teacher explicitly attended to the scope of statements discussed in class; and (ii) in post-class interviews, the teacher highlighted their deliberate attention to scope and attributed this behavior to their experience in the experimental real analysis course. We discuss the design approach, its relation to teachers’ actions in the classroom, and potential implications for teacher education in advanced content courses.
AB - Most prospective secondary mathematics teachers complete a course in real analysis, yet view the content as unrelated to their future teaching. We leveraged a theoretically motivated instructional model to design modules for a real analysis course that could inform secondary teachers’ pedagogy, focusing on how this model was implemented in a single module about “attending to scope.” The central aim is to document how teachers’ experience in this real analysis course influenced their subsequent teaching. In the majority of lessons we observed from six participating teachers, the following occurred: (i) the teacher explicitly attended to the scope of statements discussed in class; and (ii) in post-class interviews, the teacher highlighted their deliberate attention to scope and attributed this behavior to their experience in the experimental real analysis course. We discuss the design approach, its relation to teachers’ actions in the classroom, and potential implications for teacher education in advanced content courses.
KW - Advanced mathematics
KW - Pedagogical practice
KW - Real analysis
KW - Secondary teacher preparation
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U2 - 10.1007/s10857-019-09431-6
DO - 10.1007/s10857-019-09431-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85064206987
SN - 1386-4416
VL - 22
SP - 379
EP - 406
JO - Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education
JF - Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education
IS - 4
ER -