Developing Preservice Teachers’ Expertise in Evaluating and Adapting Mathematics Lesson Plans

Enhancing mathematics teachers’ quality through Lesson Study

The efficiency and effectivity of the learning experience is dependent on the teacher quality, thus, enhancing teacher's quality is vital in improving the students learning outcome. Since, the usual top-down one-shot cascading model practice for teachers' professional development in Philippines has been observed to have much information dilution, and the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education O...

Learning Object Recommendation for Teachers Creating Lesson Plans

E-learning is one of the most popular and beneficial uses of the Internet today. However, it presents a problem known as the "information overload". Current systems of e-learning stored too many contents: on various topics, for different ages, etc..; therefore users often are not sure how to find what they are needing between all the contents available. And this problem is even greater when con...

Mapping Changes in Support: A Longitudinal Analysis of Networks of Preservice Mathematics and Science Teachers

Relationships among Preservice Primary Mathematics Teachers’ Gender, Academic Success and Spatial Ability

The aim of this work is to investigate relationships among pre-service primary mathematics teachers’ gender, academic success and spatial ability. The study was conducted in Izmir with 193 pre-service primary mathematics teachers of Dokuz Eylül University. In the work, spatial ability test, which consists of two main subtests measuring spatial orientation and spatial visualization abilities, is...

The Impact of Full Time Student Teaching on Preservice Teachers' Conceptions of Mathematics Teaching and Learning

This study investigated the changes in conceptions on mathematics teaching and learning of preservice BScEd teachers after 12 weeks of full time teaching practice. Written answers to open ended questions administered at the beginning and end of student teaching were triangulated with interviews. The preservice teachers exhibited more differences in conceptions on teaching than on learning mathe...