Sentences with phrase «building pedagogical knowledge»

The report notes that many U.S. preservice education programs have teachers continue to take higher math courses, such as calculus, rather than focusing on building pedagogical knowledge of the math they will be teaching.

Melody (first author) developed the new literacies course to accomplish three main objectives: (a) to provide teachers with a scholarly foundation in literacy studies that recognizes how advances in technology influence literacy practices; (b) to support teachers in building their pedagogical knowledge of digital texts and tools as well as social practices influencing composing practices; and (c) to provide teachers with a setting for direct application of the theories and practices discussed in class as they worked with children in a writing camp.

Teachers can take free online courses to build pedagogical knowledge («Grab a MOOC by the Horns» by Anissa Lokey - Vega).

Not exact matches

It also requires expert pedagogical content knowledge — a deep understanding of how students learn subjects, including an understanding of common learning progressions and sequences; an understanding of how learning builds onto prior learning and lays the foundations for future learning; the role of prerequisites; and an understanding of common student errors and the misunderstandings that underpin them.

The teacher's demonstrated pedagogical skills, including at least a special determination concerning the teacher's knowledge of his or her subject area and the ability to impart that knowledge through planning, delivering rigorous content, checking for and building higher - level understanding, differentiating, and managing a classroom; and consistent preparation to maximize instructional time.

It requires an understanding of the representation of concepts using technologies; pedagogical techniques that use technologies in constructive ways to teach content; knowledge of what makes concepts difficult or easy to learn and how technology can help redress some of the problems that students face; knowledge of students» prior knowledge and theories of epistemology; and knowledge of how technologies can be used to build on existing knowledge and to develop new epistemologies or strengthen old ones.

The rapid expansion of available technological tools has prompted scholarly discourse about how Shulman's (1987) construct of pedagogical content knowledge might be built upon to help describe the sort of knowledge teachers need for teaching with technology.

As Hammond and Manfra (2009) described in their discussion of TPACK in social studies education, TPACK is a conceptual framework in teacher education that «provides a common language to discuss the integration of technology into instruction and builds upon the concepts of pedagogical content knowledge, [as well as] teacher as curricular gatekeeper» (p. 160).

The framework builds upon the earlier work of Schulman's (1986) pedagogical content knowledge, which describes how teachers must draw upon their knowledge of course content and pedagogical approaches.

It provides a common language to discuss the integration of technology into instruction (Koehler & Mishra, 2008) and builds upon the concepts of pedagogical content knowledge (Shulman, 1987) and teacher as curricular «gatekeeper» (Thornton, 2001a, 2001b).

How have you witnessed the interactions among content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, and pedagogical content knowledge in your classroom or building?