Mathematics education could and should benefit from technology in order to improve teaching and learning, particularly in topics where visualizations and connections to other concepts are needed. Handheld technologies such as graphing calculators can provide students with visualization, confirmation and exploration of problems and concepts they are learning. Handheld graphing technologies have been taken place widely in elementary and secondary level mathematics courses and considered to be beneficial in various means in mathematics education. Mathematics teachers have a crucial role in the use of GCs in mathematics classrooms. Therefore, pre-service teachers&rsquo / use of GCs and their views on the use of the tool in mathematics learning are considered to be valuable. The purpose of this study was to investigate the difficulties pre-service elementary mathematics teachers face, and the benefits and constraints they emphasize while learning elementary school algebra through using the Casio Classpad after receiving an instruction with graphing calculators. The graphing calculator used in the present study is the Casio Classpad 330, which is an evolved handheld device combining features of graphing calculators, dynamic geometry environment, computer algebra systems and more. The following two research problems guided the study: What are the difficulties do pre-service elementary mathematics teachers face while using Classpad in learning elementary school algebra after receiving an instruction with graphing calculators? What benefits and constraints do pre-service elementary mathematics teachers emphasize while learning elementary school algebra through using Classpad after receiving an instruction with graphing calculators? With the aim of investigating the views of a group of pre-service elementary mathematics teachers, qualitative research strategies were used. The data was collected and analyzed by means of a case study design. Classroom observations, a questionnaire, and focus group interviews were the main data sources of the existing study. The study was carried out with 21 pre-service elementary mathematics teachers. In the classroom studies elementary level algebra was taught to the participants with the use of Classpad as a main tool by giving one tool to each of the participants. Classroom observations ended in five weeks &ndash / 20 courses &ndash / including one week of a training period. After the classroom observations, participants filled out a questionnaire including five open-ended questions about the classroom studies. Finally, data collection procedure was ended with three focus group interviews. The data was analyzed with qualitative means by transcribing and analyzing the observation records, answers of the questionnaire, and records of the three interviews. Results revealed that pre-service teachers&rsquo / view Classpad in three categories / as a personal tool, as an educational tool, and the relationship between CP and motivation. They viewed CP as a personal tool that they were eager to use the tool in every level of mathematics from elementary to mastering degrees. As an educational tool, they preferred to use the tool as a teacher by giving some cautions that teachers and students should be careful with. Lastly, they considered that the tool has a positive effect on motivation when used appropriately. Pre-service elementary mathematics teachers faced some difficulties in the beginning courses of the classroom studies which was their learning period of how to use CP and they overcome most of the difficulties at the end of the classroom studies. As the new elementary school level mathematics curriculum encourages the use of various technologies in teaching and learning of mathematics, the results of this study will have useful implications for mathematics teachers and curriculum developers.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the prospective elementary mathematics teachers&rsquo / use of strategies and their achievement levels in solving mathematical problems with respect to year level. The data were collected from 250 prospective elementary mathematics teachers enrolled in an elementary mathematics education program from a state university in Central Anatolian Region. Problem Solving Test (PST) was used to accomplish the purpose of the study. The data collection tool adapted by the researcher included nine open ended problems. In this study, item based in-depth analysis was employed to determine a variety of problem solving strategies used by prospective teachers.The frequencies and percentages of categories were gathered for each item and for each year level. The results of this study revealed that prospective elementary mathematics teachers&rsquo / problem solving achievement was moderately high. Prospective elementary mathematics teachers in each year level were able to use various problem solving strategies to a certain extent. More specifically, the results indicated that &lsquo / making a drawing&rsquo / and &lsquo / intelligent guessing and testing&rsquo / strategies were among the most prominent strategies frequently used by prospective teachers. Setting up an equation and using a formula was other strategies used by prospective teachers. On the other hand, finding a pattern strategy was the least frequent strategy used by prospective teachers.

This case study is conducted in order to observe and investigate the critical reading discourse of twenty seven freshman pre service teachers of English at the department of foreign language teaching at METU. In addition, it attempts to answer the question how the critical reading discourse of the students&rsquo / are shaped through feedback, instruction and time. The extensive data (both written and audio-visual data) is collected in the Advanced Reading and Writing I and II courses which are offered to the first year students at the FLE department. The results of the analysis of the data indicate that the critical reading discourse of the freshman pre-service teachers of English at METU involves interpretive, evaluative and responsive discourse. Evaluative discourse is found to be limited in students&rsquo / written work and discussions when compared to interpretive and responsive discourse. The students also usually tend to evaluate the content of the texts rather than form of them. It is also found that instruction on academic writing foster critical thinking but it is not sufficient to encourage critical reading.

This thesis proposes a critical enquiry into the issue of creativity, focussing on teacher education in the English Lifelong Learning (LLL) sector. I examine the role of creativity in this context and link sector research and practice to an alternative, immanent, form of ethics. My thesis has three parts, the first of which identifies and contests current approaches to creativity and redefines it from the perspective of teacher education in LLL. To tackle this complex problem, I draw on recent literature in the field in conjunction with the work of philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995). I recast the notion of lifelong learning as an event in order to explicitly relate practice, creativity and ethics. Drawing on this analysis, the second part of my argument describes an alternative, “operative” model of creativity and provides examples of its implication in practice. The films and creative practices of acclaimed director Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) are used to exemplify the sort of “shock to thought” which Deleuze equates with certain types of cinema, and which, I suggest, can contribute to creative teaching and learning practices. I bring together Deleuze’s ideas about how creative “stutters” and “interstices” function, providing a set of interlinked parameters with which to think about creative teacher education practices in LLL. Improvisation, chance and error are investigated from the viewpoint of the ethical practices immanent to them. These parameters structure the third part of my thesis, which critically examines the extent to which research and practice in LLL might actually achieve the ambitious goals this implies. Drawing on Deleuze’s positions on moral and ethical behaviour, I develop an ambitious re-statement of ethical practice which aims to better relate to practices of teacher education in LLL and their creative potential.

The purpose of the study was to explore the problems of first three-year classroom teachers who graduated from regular teacher education programs and alternative certificate programs. The study also aims at examining the problems in relation to the type of certification, gender, cities they work in, institutions they graduated from, age, graduation year, recruitment year, teaching practice, number of teachers in the schools, class size, and type of classroom they teach. The subjects of this study were elementary school classroom teachers, from Ordu, Samsun and Sinop. A total of 300 teachers in these cities were ! asked to fill out a questionnaire. Of the 300 teachers, 275 teachers (128 females, 147 males) completed and returned the questionnaires. The researcher for the purpose of data coll! ection prepared a questionnaire that consisted of a 19-item de! mographi c data sheet, and 24-item five points Likert type questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviations, as well as t test, and ANOVA. The findings indicated that classroom teachers mostly face problems in teaching compound classes, applying, and understanding the body of current laws, rules and regulations, teaching the reading and writing to elementary school students, in developing supporting teaching materials and in getting students participate to the course. The findings also indicated that the alternative certification teachers experience more professional problems than the regular education teachers. It was observed that gender,! city, teaching practice, number of teachers in the school, cl! ass size , and type of classroom they teach did not affect the problems experienced by the teachers.

This study indented to explore preservice elementary and secondary science teacher&rsquo / s perception of their professional roles and investigate their reasons of choosing teaching as a profession. To explore the perception of professional roles, metaphorical images were also used as a tool. The present study was conducted during the spring semester of 2004-2005 academic year with a total number of 441 (n=287 females / n=153 males and n=1 gender not provided) senior preservice elementary and secondary science teachers who enrolled in the elementary science and secondary science (biology, physics and chemistry) teacher education programs of three different universities in Ankara. Data were collected utilizing a questionnaire developed by Saban (2003) composed of five basic sections which investigates the participant&rsquo / s perception of teaching as a profession and their roles in instruction process and reasons of choosing teaching as a profession. Data of the present study were analyzed utilizing descriptive and inferential statistics. Analysis of the data showed that preservice teachers perceive their roles mostly with student-centered metaphors and define their selves as pedagogical expert who fosters student&rsquo / s social, emotional, and moral growth. Besides, most of the preservice teachers have altruistic reasons to choose teaching as a profession.

This study is a detailed examination of reflection in pre-service teacher education. It focuses on the process of the promotion of reflective teacher education. Within this process, it considers pre-service teachers&#039 / perceptions on becoming reflective and their focus of attention throughout their practicum. In relation to these, it analyzes pre-service teachers&#039 / improvement in reflection by focusing on various methods of promotion for reflectivity.

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The present study investigates the impact on teachers' beliefs and teaching practices of their involvement in an innovative curricular project in Korea. The study explores the experiences of four teachers who were required to teach maths and science using English as the medium of instruction, and the inevitable changes to their practices that resulted when adopting the English language teaching materials. The investigation is a qualitative study, using face-to-face interviews as the main source of data, alongside teaching observations and the adoption of a research diary. Through an in-depth analysis of such data, the present study illuminates some of the concerns of the teachers embarking on the new curriculum, including their perceived lack of English ability, as well as perceived shortcomings of the English language program. However, all four teachers highlighted a number of positive experiences that they had not conceived of previously. The research reveals in some detail the process that the teachers went through from a position of doubt to a position of acceptance. This process reveals a range of emotions and challenges as well as evidence of personal and professional development leading to a broadened perspective on teaching. Overall, this study provides evidence of changes in teacher cognition and instructional practices in a context of educational reform, in which teachers are challenged to learn something new and subsequently, to change their pre-existing beliefs. The study reveals how positive aspects of teacher change can be experienced through their learning efforts, leading to a feeling of self-affirmation in their abilities as a teacher. This finding has particular implications for practitioners involved in teacher development in the field of ELT as well as teacher education more generally.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 Silvana Pucetti.pdf: 3032464 bytes, checksum: 861cae91a484e6531a2b22643d60c71d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-11-30 / This thesis investigates the initial training of mathematics teachers, with reference to discussions and in-depth analysis of the route on this training in Brazil on public policy Mathematics teacher training interfaced with the crisis of degrees and also on the ideas and actions that support the PIBID – Institutional Program Initiation Grant to Teaching and representations of experiences with this program of undergraduate and supervisors (teachers from partner public schools), through Subproject Mathematics, developed into a HEI – higher education institution, community, located in the Greater ABC Paulista region. The reference question pervaded by this research was: "Representations of undergraduate and Supervisors on the development of Subproject Mathematics/PIBID point to effective contributions that denote a more solid formation of licensing (surpassing the theoretical and practical distance) so that the same motive for professional integration in public schools? ". The PIBID is a project of the Federal Government, funded by the Higher Education Personnel Improvement Coordination (CAPES), which promotes the link between higher education and public schools in order to promote and encourage students of Undergraduate courses for future exercise of the profession. Preliminarily, it is presented an overview of the initial training of the mathematics teacher in the interface between mathematics teacher training for Public Policy and the crisis of degrees, the main authors of reference: Imbernon (2000); Tardif (2008); Valente (1997); D'Ambrósio (1996); Romanelli (2001); Fischmann (2014); Gatti (2010); Bahia (2015); Carlos Chagas Foundation – FCC (2014); Bahia and Souza (2013; 2014); Libâneo (2008); Nóvoa (2009); Franco (2012); Pimenta and Lima (2010), among other authors established in the area. We also conducted a field research with a view to the observations and analysis of the actions taken by the Mathematics Sub-project in the period 2014/2015, the IES investigated. Initially, we have the collaboration of 33 undergraduates participating in the Mathematics Sub-projects in 2014 for the application of a questionnaire with closed questions (for profile) and open questions (on the development of PIBID actions). In order to broaden and deepen some discussions, we selected 6 licensees (among the 33 who answered the questionnaire) and invite the two supervisors accompanying these six undergraduate schools at the time to conduct interviews with a pre-established script. The development of instruments for data collection, the interviews and data analysis, as were references Szymanski (2010) and Franco (2003). After the research application process, there were tabs and data analysis, which revealed the following results: (1) the evaluation of PIBID is strong across the country, as studies by other researchers and in the unanimous opinion of respondents in this work; (2) in view of the subject there is a direct link between improvements applied to teacher education in higher education and the improvement of the Brazilian Basic Education; (3) the approach of the University and the school is important for the improvement of initial teacher education and, especially, the Mathematics teachers as resources and teaching practices can contribute to the building of a higher standard of personal safety and professional to the licensees and therefore in better levels of education; (4) respondents recognize the value of methodologies guided in different ways of teaching mathematics as a means for understanding the construction of mathematical knowledge; and (5) the PIBID in Mathematics Sub-projects has contributed to improving the teaching of mathematics and seeks to ensure the motivation for the professional integration of current undergraduates in public schools because 84% of study subjects express the intention to remain in public schools after graduation, although this rate can only be proven in the future. / A presente tese investiga o processo de formação inicial de professores de Matemática, tendo como referência discussões e análises aprofundadas sobre o percurso acerca desta formação no Brasil, sobre as políticas públicas de formação de professores de Matemática em interface com a crise das licenciaturas e, também, sobre as concepções e ações que embasam o PIBID – Programa Institucional de Bolsa de Iniciação à Docência e as representações das experiências com este Programa, de licenciandos e supervisoras (professoras das escolas públicas parceiras), por meio do Subprojeto de Matemática, desenvolvido em uma IES – Instituição de Ensino Superior, comunitária, localizada na região do Grande ABC Paulista. A questão de referência que perpassou por esta investigação foi: “As representações de Licenciandos e Supervisoras sobre o desenvolvimento do Subprojeto de Matemática/PIBID apontam para contribuições efetivas que denotem uma formação mais sólida do licenciando (superando o distanciamento teórico-prático) de forma que o mesmo se motive para uma inserção profissional na rede pública de ensino?”. O PIBID é um projeto do Governo Federal, financiado pela Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), que promove a articulação entre a Educação Superior e a escola pública, de modo a valorizar e incentivar os alunos dos cursos de Licenciaturas para o exercício futuro da profissão. Preliminarmente, é apresentado um panorama sobre a formação inicial do professor de Matemática em interface com as Políticas Públicas de formação de professores de Matemática e a crise das licenciaturas, tendo como autores principais de referência: Imbernón (2000); Tardif (2008); Valente (1997), D´Ambrósio (1996); Romanelli (2001); Fischmann (2014); Gatti (2010), Bahia (2015), Fundação Carlos Chagas – FCC (2014); Bahia e Souza (2013; 2014); Libâneo (2008); Nóvoa (2009); Franco (2012); Pimenta e Lima (2010), entre outros autores consagrados na área. Realizamos, também, uma pesquisa de campo com vistas às observações e análises das ações realizadas pelo Subprojeto de Matemática no período 2014/2015, da IES investigada. Inicialmente, contamos com a colaboração de 33 licenciandos que participavam do Subprojeto de Matemática em 2014 para a aplicação de um questionário com questões fechadas (para perfil) e questões abertas (sobre o desenvolvimento das ações do PIBID). Com vistas a ampliarmos e aprofundarmos algumas discussões, selecionamos 6 licenciandos (dentre os 33 que responderam ao questionário) e convidamos as 2 supervisoras que acompanhavam estes 6 licenciandos nas escolas, à época, para a realização de entrevistas com um roteiro preestabelecido. A elaboração dos instrumentos para a coleta de dados, a realização das entrevistas e a análise dos dados, tiveram como referências Szymanski (2010) e Franco (2003). Após o processo de aplicação da pesquisa, foram realizadas as tabulações e análises dos dados, que revelaram os seguintes resultados: (1) a avaliação do PIBID é bastante positiva em território nacional, conforme estudos desenvolvidos por outros pesquisadores e na opinião unânime dos entrevistados que participaram deste trabalho; (2) na opinião dos sujeitos existe uma ligação direta entre melhorias aplicadas à formação docente em nível superior e o aperfeiçoamento da Educação Básica brasileira; (3) a aproximação da Universidade e da escola é importante para a melhoria da formação inicial dos professores e, em especial, dos professores de Matemática, visto que os recursos e as práticas pedagógicas podem contribuir para a edificação de um padrão de maior segurança pessoal e profissional para os licenciandos e, por consequência, em melhores níveis de ensino; (4) os entrevistados reconhecem o valor das metodologias pautadas em formas diferenciadas de ensinar a Matemática como meio para a compreensão da construção do conhecimento matemático; e (5) o PIBID, no Subprojeto de Matemática, tem contribuído para a melhoria do ensino da Matemática e busca assegurar a motivação para a inserção profissional dos atuais licenciandos nas escolas públicas, pois 84% dos sujeitos da pesquisa manifestam a intenção de permanecerem na rede pública de ensino após a formatura, apesar de que este índice somente poderá ser comprovado futuramente