Developing Preservice Teachers' Understanding of Productive Struggle

• In Event: Mathematics Content, Processes, and Practices Brief Report Session: Preservice Teachers

Description for Program

This presentation reports on a study that introduced preservice teachers to the construct of productive struggle in their mathematics content course for PSTs. We share the video analysis and writing assignments used to support PSTs coming to understand productive struggle.

Authors

• Christine Alyssa Herrera, California State University, Chico

• Shawnda Smith, California State University, Bakersfield

• Christina Starkey, Southern New Hampshire University

• Hiroko Kawaguchi Warshauer, Texas State University