PME-NA

Teaching Mathematical Modeling and Teaching Students: Secondary Mathematics Teachers' Competencies

• In Event: Humanizing and Affect

Description

Teaching mathematical modeling requires multi-dimensional competency. Teachers who enact instruction with materials designed to facilitate students’ learning of modeling draw on their competencies in their enactment. We investigated how secondary school mathematics teachers articulate and leverage aspects of their growing competencies in teaching mathematical modeling as they work with new instructional materials. We analyzed interviews with secondary teachers using codes for the four dimensions of competency in teaching mathematical modeling as reported in modeling literature, followed by inductive coding. Analyses revealed both the integrated nature of the dimensions of competence in teaching modeling and a humanistic element. Addition of a humanistic dimension to teacher competence in teaching modeling allows for a fuller view of teaching modeling that honors how teachers articulate their work and values.

Authors

• Rose Mary Zbiek, Pennsylvania State University

• Susan Peters, University of Louisville

• Amy Brass, University of New Mexico