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How Elementary School Teachers Learn To Teach Mathematics, Phyllis Schneider Kirschner
How Elementary School Teachers Learn To Teach Mathematics, Phyllis Schneider Kirschner
Educational Studies Dissertations
This study examines how elementary school teachers learned to teach mathematics during their pre-service education and during their first few years of teaching. The study identifies those experiences teachers found to be most significant in their development as mathematics teachers. All seven teachers in this study had been taught using procedural methods and each had to find a way to integrate conceptual mathematics education into their own understanding. The study examines the teachers' motivations for pursuing this understanding and the circumstances that provided opportunities to do so.
Getting To The Heart Of Mentoring Relationships, Karen Leduc
Getting To The Heart Of Mentoring Relationships, Karen Leduc
Educational Studies Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to understand how the mentoring relationship and its organizational supports help to inform mentoring programs in public schools. Mentoring is defined as a complex interaction between a public school teacher, the mentor, and a new-to-the-district teacher, the protege. The mentoring relationship is examined from the perspectives of the mentor and the protege.