Training Teachers to Teach Probability

How do teachers teach? Insights from teachers and students

Some Surprising Findings on How Teachers Learn to Teach

"W~1T That teachers actually learn %/%/ from different kinds of T T teacher education programs has been the focus of a large scale study at the National Center for Research on Teacher Learning. Known as the Teacher Education and Learning to Teach (TELT) study, this project exam ined not only preservice and inservice programs, but also induction programs and alternative routes. In each of the pr...

Making the Transition: Helping Teachers to Teach Online

Teaching in the cyberspace classroom requires that we move beyond old models of pedagogy into new practices that are more facilitative. Teaching in cyberspace involves much more than simply taking old models of pedagogy and transferring them to a different medium. Unlike the face-to-face classroom, in online distance education, attention needs to be paid to the development of a sense of communi...

Preparing Preservice Elementary Teachers to Teach Science Through Computer Models

The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which preservice elementary teachers were able to construct viable scientific models with a computer-modeling tool, namely Model-It, and design a science lesson with models. The results of the study showed that (a) Model-It, through its scaffolds (i.e., Plan, Build, and Test modes), enabled the majority of preservice teachers to build model...

Preparing Teachers to Teach Science and Mathematics with Technology

Preservice teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) development was investigated with respect to integrating technology. Four components of PCK were adapted to describe technology-enhanced PCK (TPCK). The study examined the TPCK of student teachers in a multi-dimensional science and mathematics teacher preparation program that integrated teaching and learning with technology throughout the...