In‐Service Education of Teachers of Mathematics

The Mis-Education of Mathematics Teachers

I f we want to produce good French teachers in schools, should we require them to learn Latin in college but not French? After all, Latin is the mother language of French and is linguistically more complex than French; by mastering a more complex language teachers could enhance their understanding of the French they already know from their school days. To correlate their knowledge of French wit...

Inservice Training (inset) Programs via Distance Education: Primary School Teachers‘ Opinions

The aim of this study is to investigate primary school teachers‘ opinions in relation to inservice training (INSET) programs via distance education. The subjects of this study were primary school teachers (n=70) working in the city center of Bolu-Turkey in the spring semester of 2006–2007 academic year. During the study, the qualitative data were collected through semi-structured interviews hel...

Preservice and Inservice Teachers’ Implicit Theories of Intelligence

Preservice and Inservice Secondary Teachers' Orientations Toward Content Area Reading

This study examined preservice and inservice secondary teachers' orientations toward content area reading and instruction. Instruments included two sets of belief statements and three sets of lesson plans; for comparison, each instrument incorporated three explanations of the reading process. Based on their selection of statements and plans, preservice teachers favored an interactive model of r...

Pre-service teachers’ views about their mathematics teacher education modules

How to cite this article: Gierdien, F. (2012). Preservice teachers’ views about their mathematics teacher education modules. Pythagoras, 33(1), Art. #134, 10 pages. http://dx.doi. org/10.4102/pythagoras. v33i1.134 This article reports on the views of intermediate and senior phase pre-service teachers (PSTs) enrolled in mathematics education modules that attempt to teach both content and pedagog...