Investigating and promoting teachers’ expertise for language-responsive mathematics teaching

Investigating the Manifestation of Teaching Expertise Feature among Novice and Experienced EFL Teachers

The present study was an attempt to investigate the manifestation of teaching expertise of EFL teachers in Iranian formal educational context. More specifically, it was intended to study how teachers of English in Iranian high schools and General English instructors in a state university manifest features of teaching expertise. The study also compared the expertise features of novice teachers w...

Middle School Mathematics Teachers’ Knowledge for Teaching

Kim Beswick, University of Tasmania Email: [email protected] Telephone: +61 3 6324 3167 Facsimile: +61 3 6324 3048 Abstract: Forty-two middle school mathematics teachers were presented with two mathematics problems, one requiring a percentage of an amount to be calculated and the other involving the interpretation of a pie chart showing percents. The teachers were firstly asked to provide...

Expertise, Expert Teaching and Experienced Teachers’ Knowledge of Learning Theory

Through the inception of the Chartered Teacher Programme in Scotland there is the intention that continuing professional development can enable teachers to become increasingly effective in promoting learning in the classroom (Scottish Executive, aim since what is meant by learning (and its promotion) is not contextualised either in learning in any coherent way. The implications of such a ‘non-l...

Developing Measures of Teachers’ Mathematics Knowledge for Teaching

Measuring Pre-service Primary Teachers’ Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics

This paper reports on the knowledge for teaching mathematics of 294 pre-service primary teachers from seven Australian universities participating in a project aimed at establishing a culture of evidence-based improvement of teacher education. The project was funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. Rasch measurement techniques were used to validate and obtain performance measures...