From Knowing to Doing: Simulated Interactions for Mathematics and Science Teacher Development

• In Event: Roundtable Session 1
  In Roundtable Session: Innovations in Preservice Teacher Education Programs

Abstract

Teacher education scholars continue to seek innovative approaches that challenge novice teachers to enact and apply their professional knowledge and skills in authentic situations. Utilizing a pedagogy common to medical education, the authors are currently designing a series of simulated interactions, where preservice mathematics and science teachers engage in live, one-to-one simulations with standardized individuals to address content-specific problems of practice. This paper outlines the first year of the Science and Mathematics Simulated Interaction Model (SIM), describing the concept of content-specific teacher education simulations, their developmental and iterative design constructs, the data in support of eight mathematics and science simulations, and the resulting products (i.e., the simulations themselves).

Authors

• Benjamin H. Dotger, Syracuse University

• Sharon Dotger, Syracuse University

• Jeffrey J. Rozelle, Knowles Science Teaching Foundation

• Joanna O. Masingila, Syracuse University