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Prospective Teachers' Considerations During The Lesson Planning Process, Jessica A. De La Cruz
Prospective Teachers' Considerations During The Lesson Planning Process, Jessica A. De La Cruz
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This paper presents an action research project completed in a mathematics methods course for prospective elementary school teachers. The goal was to determine if instructional practices were effective at preparing teachers to use students’ thinking to inform instructional decisions. The teachers’ ability to predict students’ strategies and the teachers’ considerations during the planning process were investigated. The teachers selected a task involving the comparison of ratios, anticipated students’ strategies for completing the task, and explained their rationale. The prospective teachers effectively predicted students’ strategies; however, those student strategies were not a consideration during the task selection process for the majority.
Preparing Preservice Secondary Social Studies Teachers For Common Core, Lisa Andries D'Souza, Ann Marie Gleeson
Preparing Preservice Secondary Social Studies Teachers For Common Core, Lisa Andries D'Souza, Ann Marie Gleeson
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For history and social studies educators, the Common Core standards present a new challenge, asking teachers explicitly to integrate literacy skills into their instruction. As K-12 and higher education institutions think about how to support teachers to meet this charge (Gewertz, 2012b; Sawchuk, 2012), this study uses the work of preservice teachers to examine how they address and fail to address Common Core standards. Our findings are based on qualitative analysis of unit plans (105 lessons) from preservice secondary history teachers. Analysis was completed on individual lessons and then on each unit holistically. Finally the units were analyzed collectively in …