At the 2013 Biannual Meeting of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), in Munich, Professor Rossella Santagata and Ph.D student Cathery Yeh presented their paper entitled: Analysis Abilities Make their Way into the Classroom: A Study of Pre-service Teacher Learning to Teach Mathematics.
Abstract: This study investigates pre-service teachers’ learning to teach mathematics in the elementary classroom by comparing a video-enhanced methods course targeting the development of systematic analysis of teaching to a more typical course predominantly focused on strategies for teaching mathematics. Participants in the two courses were compared in terms of their analysis abilities and their teaching quality. The participants in the video- and systematic-analysis course outperformed their counterparts on both measures. These findings shed light on the relationships between professional vision and classroom practices and have implication for the design of math methods courses in the context of teacher preparation.