Preservice Teachers’ Learning from an Online, Video-based, Mathematics Professional Development Resource

Jo Towers; Tina Rapke

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Jo Towers, Tina Rapke

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This article presents the findings of a study of preservice teachers‘ unstructured engagements with an online, video-based, professional development resource focused on mathematics teaching and learning. Volunteer preservice teachers were invited to engage with the online resource and their reflections on their experiences were recorded in individual and focus group interviews. The findings reveal how the preservice teachers engaged with the resource, and what they learned about the teaching and learning of mathematics from their interactions with the resource. Here we present elements of those findings that reveal the participants‘ learning.

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preservice teacher learning
professional development

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INT ELECT J MATH ED, Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2011, 5-26

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Towers, J., & Rapke, T. (2011). Preservice Teachers’ Learning from an Online, Video-based, Mathematics Professional Development Resource. International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 6(1), 5-26. https://doi.org/10.29333/iejme/258

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Towers J, Rapke T. Preservice Teachers’ Learning from an Online, Video-based, Mathematics Professional Development Resource. INT ELECT J MATH ED. 2011;6(1):5-26. https://doi.org/10.29333/iejme/258

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Towers J, Rapke T. Preservice Teachers’ Learning from an Online, Video-based, Mathematics Professional Development Resource. INT ELECT J MATH ED. 2011;6(1), 5-26. https://doi.org/10.29333/iejme/258

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Towers, Jo, and Tina Rapke. "Preservice Teachers’ Learning from an Online, Video-based, Mathematics Professional Development Resource". International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education 2011 6 no. 1 (2011): 5-26. https://doi.org/10.29333/iejme/258

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Towers, J., and Rapke, T. (2011). Preservice Teachers’ Learning from an Online, Video-based, Mathematics Professional Development Resource. International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 6(1), pp. 5-26. https://doi.org/10.29333/iejme/258

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Towers, Jo et al. "Preservice Teachers’ Learning from an Online, Video-based, Mathematics Professional Development Resource". International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, vol. 6, no. 1, 2011, pp. 5-26. https://doi.org/10.29333/iejme/258