Technique and Purpose: Separating and Integrating Doing and Thinking in Representations of Practice

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Description for Program

Presenters will describe two approaches to teacher education. One stresses skillful performance of technique; the other critical analysis of purposes and effects. Presenters will describe the benefits and limitations of each of these approaches, and share efforts to integrate them.

Sub Unit

• Mathematics Pedagogy and Instructional Practice

Lead Presenter

• Rob Wieman, Rowan University

Co-Presenters

• Orly Buchbinder, University of New Hampshire

• Kristen Bieda, Michigan State University

• Alice LaRue Joy Cook, University of Maryland

• Lorraine M Males, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

• Kathleen (Taffy) McAneny, West Chester University