Mathematics Teachers Engaging with Representations of Practice

This book presents innovative approaches and state-of-the-art empirical studies on mathematics teacher learning. It highlights the advantages and challenges of such tools as classroom videos, concept cartoons, simulations, and scenarios. The book details how representations of practice encourage and afford professional development, and describes how these tools help to investigate aspects of teacher expertise, beliefs, and conceptions.  In addition, the book identifies the methodological challenges that can emerge and the obstacles educators might encounter when using representations of practice. The book examines the nature of these challenges and provides suggestions for solving them. It offers a variety of different approaches that can help educators to develop professional learning activities for prospective and in-service teachers.

• pre-service mathematics teacher education
• representations of practice
• classroom videos
• assessment of teacher expertise
• professional development of in-service mathematics teachers
• theory in mathematics education
• mathematics professional development
• teacher professional competencies
• cartoons as a representation of practice
• competence assessment
• pre-service teachers

• University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA

  Orly Buchbinder

• Ludwigsburg University of Education, Ludwigsburg, Germany

  Sebastian Kuntze

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