Bird Boxes Build Content Area Knowledge

Autor/in	Cianca, Sherri Ann
Titel	Bird Boxes Build Content Area Knowledge
Quelle	In: Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 19 (2013) 1, S.22-29 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1072-0839
Schlagwörter	Preservice Teacher Education; Mathematics Instruction; Teaching Methods; Pedagogical Content Knowledge; Middle School Teachers; Geometric Concepts; Manipulative Materials; Ornithology; Academic Standards; Mathematical Concepts; Freehand Drawing; Design; Learning Activities; State Standards + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Pädagogische Kompetenz; Middle school; Middle schools; Teacher; Teachers; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Elementare Geometrie; Hilfsmittel; Ornithologie; Drawing; Zeichnen; Lernaktivität
Abstract	This article describes a preservice teacher training in line with meeting the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM) using geometric reasoning, spatial sense, measurement, representation, communication, and problem solving. The author infers that when preservice teachers lack pedagogical content knowledge they cannot successfully translate this competence for teaching content with meaning. Teachers with weak pedagogical content knowledge will fail to plan meaningful lessons or anticipate areas where students might struggle; they will be unprepared to answer students' questions or detect students' misconceptions; and, inevitably, their students may acquire distorted meanings. In response to this challenge the author explored the impact of a bird house nesting box activity on participants' geometric subject matter knowledge. The nesting box task integrated across mathematical domains (number and operations, algebraic thinking, measurement, and geometry) and across subject areas (ornithology, the scientific study of birds; flight, geography, migration; state birds; art; music; and carpentry). Preservice teachers can take these idea with them into student teaching placements and future classrooms. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10