Joanna O. Masingila Dana Olanoff Dennis Kwaka
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Who Teaches Mathematics Content Courses for Preservice Elementary Teachers? Results
of a Nationwide SurveyJoanna O. Masingila
Dana OlanoffDennis Kwaka
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Background
Grew out of 2010 AMTE symposium session about preparing instructors to teach mathematics content courses for preservice elementary teachers
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Background
Through discussion, the group concluded not much is known about who teaches these courses and the academic and teaching backgrounds of the instructors.
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Rationale There is evidence that many
preservice elementary teachers do not receive adequate experiences from their TE programs in order to develop deep, conceptual knowledge of the mathematics they will teach (Ball & Bass, 2000; Greenberg & Walsh, 2008).
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Rationale Teachers of mathematics
content courses for preservice elementary teachers play an important role in helping prospective teachers acquire the knowledge they need for teaching.
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Methods Building on the interest
expressed in the symposium session for more comprehensive information, we decided to conduct a survey of all higher education institutions in the United States.
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Methods Our research aim was to answer
the question, “Who teaches mathematics content courses for preservice elementary teachers at colleges and universities in the United States, and what are these instructors’ academic and teaching backgrounds?”
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Methods To extend information gathered
in the CBMS 2005 survey (Lutzer, Rodi, Kirkman & Maxwell, 2007), we constructed questions to obtain more detail about the courses, instructors and training and support for instructors.
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Methods We compiled a comprehensive
list of all higher education institutions in the U.S. using three different websites.
We looked for e-mail addresses of the department of mathematics chairpersons of each of the institutions.
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Methods List of 1,985 institutions; for 47 of
these we were unable to obtain an e-mail address
Sent an e-mail message with a link to our survey on SurveyMonkey™ to 1,938 institutions; some bounced back; unable to obtain valid e-mail address for 12 institutions
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Methods Thus, we had 1,926 institutions
for which we were able to successfully send our e-mail message in late April and early May of 2010.
We sent a follow-up message approximately two weeks afterwards.
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Methods We received 825 responses, for
a response rate of 42.8%.
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Methods
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Findings Mathematics Courses Instructors and Their
Backgrounds Training and/or Support for
Instructors
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Mathematics Courses Asked questions on (a) which department
offers these courses, (b) how many of these courses are offered and how many are required, (c) what content is covered in these courses, (d) in what format the courses are typically taught, (e) how many sections of these courses are taught in each academic year, (f) approximately how many students are in each section of these courses, and (g) in what year students typically take these courses
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Mathematics Courses
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Mathematics Courses
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Mathematics Courses
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Mathematics Courses
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Mathematics Courses
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Mathematics Courses
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Mathematics Courses Many institutions reported teaching one to
three sections of courses, with other institutions reporting up to 55 sections per semester
Most institutions reported an average of 25-30 students per section
75.5% of respondents indicated students typically take courses in second year of study, with 40% reporting first year, and 37.5 reporting third year (could check all that apply)
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Mathematics Courses The majority of these institutions are
not meeting the recommendations of Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences (2001), National Council on Teacher Quality (2008), and the NCTM (2005) for preservice elementary teachers to take at least 9 credits of mathematics content designed specifically for them.
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Mathematics Courses Preservice elementary teachers in
mathematics content courses designed specifically for them show greater achievement than those in general mathematics courses (Matthews & Seaman, 2007)
Preservice elementary teachers’ achievement is higher when they are taught in ways that actively engage them with the mathematics content (McCrory et al., 2009).
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Instructors and Their Backgrounds
Asked questions on (a) if there is a course supervisor for the mathematics content courses for preservice elementary teachers, (b) the academic and teaching background of the supervisor, (c) whether the supervisor teaches one or more of these courses, (d) who are the other instructors of these courses, and (e) the academic and teaching background of the other instructors
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Instructors and Their Backgrounds
Elementary mathematics is more complex than it may appear (Ma, 1999).
Unless instructors have been put in situations where they are teaching elementary mathematics, the instructors have likely not thought about this mathematics since they were elementary students themselves, and that was a time when they were not thinking about these ideas in a deep way.
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Instructors and Their Backgrounds
“Too often, the person assigned to teach mathematics to elementary teacher candidates is not professionally equipped to do so” (Greenberg & Walsh, 2008, p. 46).
“Mathematicians who have not turned serious attention to mathematics education often fail to appreciate the cognitive and epistemological subtleties of elementary mathematics instruction” (Bass, 2005, p. 419).
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Training and/or Support for Instructors
Asked questions concerning (a) if there is training and/or support for instructors for mathematics content courses for preservice elementary teachers, and (b) if so, what the training and/or support consist of
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Training and/or Support for Instructors
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Training and/or Support for Instructors
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Response by Category
Category
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1. Informal Training and/or Support 2. Attending Workshops, Conferences3. Beginning of Semester Meeting or Once a Year Training4. Regularly Scheduled, Ongoing Meetings/Discussions5. Co-teaches or Observes Course Before Teaching on Own6. Other7. Taking a course8. Visiting elementary schools9. No support or training needed
LEGEND:
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Training and/or Support for Instructors
Our results indicate a lack of professional development/support opportunities for instructors of these courses.
“Trained as mathematicians or as teachers themselves, most teacher developers lack knowledge about teachers as learners” (Sztajn, Ball & McMahon, 2006, p. 151).
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Training and/or Support for Instructors
Instructors need opportunities to talk with and collaborate with others about how to teach these courses.
“Instructors need to experiment with new tasks, tools, and modes of classroom interaction and share and model new instructional strategies. This necessitates collegial interaction and support as well as participation in professional development opportunities” (NCTM, 1991, p. 128).
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Training and/or Support for Instructors
“Not only are prospective K-12 teachers faced with the teaching mathematics in ways they have never experienced in the reform climate, but mathematics educators are faced with helping teachers to teach in a way that they themselves have probably neither experienced nor used much. Often the mathematics faculty members who teach content courses for elementary school teachers are isolated in their departments, without colleagues to consult about new trends and materials” (MSEB, 1996, p. 8).
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Conclusions Our findings corroborate
findings from other studies (e.g., Greenberg & Walsh, 2008) that show wide variation in the mathematical experiences of preservice elementary teachers across the United States.
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Conclusions Our survey results, combined with
other research on preservice elementary teachers’ achievement, may help the mathematics education community develop standards for the teacher educators who teach mathematics content courses for this population.
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Contact Information
Joanna O. Masingila, [email protected]
Dana Olanoff, [email protected] Dennis Kwaka, [email protected]