Problem Solving Methods In Teachers Professional Development

Author : Judit Orgoványi-Gajdos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463007115

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Teachers’ Professional Development on Problem Solving by Judit Orgoványi-Gajdos Pdf

Since teaching is a practical activity, efficient problem-solving skill is one of the fundamental competencies teachers need to possess. All teachers face challenging school situations during teaching-learning process no matter where they teach or since when. Despite similarities appearing on the surface, every school situation is unique and depends on several internal and external factors that should have been taken into account. Therefore, in many problematic cases it is not enough to deal with the symptoms, but teachers need to go deeper. This book provides a theoretical and practical background for this step-by-step problem solving-oriented thinking process. The practical activities can help teachers to frame and identify their challenges, to analyse the cause and effect of their situation, and also to find their own solutions and strategies. The material in this book can be used in pre-service or in-service teacher training that deal with pedagogic cases, or challenges of teaching and learning processes. However, most of the tools can also be used individually by teachers at any stage of their career, including any type of compulsory education, thanks to the clear description of each technique.

Author : Patricio Felmer,Peter Liljedahl,Boris Koichu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030292157

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Problem Solving in Mathematics Instruction and Teacher Professional Development by Patricio Felmer,Peter Liljedahl,Boris Koichu Pdf

Recent research in problem solving has shifted its focus to actual classroom implementation and what is really going on during problem solving when it is used regularly in classroom. This book seeks to stay on top of that trend by approaching diverse aspects of current problem solving research, covering three broad themes. Firstly, it explores the role of teachers in problem-solving classrooms and their professional development, moving onto—secondly—the role of students when solving problems, with particular consideration of factors like group work, discussion, role of students in discussions and the effect of students’ engagement on their self-perception and their view of mathematics. Finally, the book considers the question of problem solving in mathematics instruction as it overlaps with problem design, problem-solving situations, and actual classroom implementation. The volume brings together diverse contributors from a variety of countries and with wide and varied experiences, combining the voices of leading and developing researchers. The book will be of interest to any reader keeping on the frontiers of research in problem solving, more specifically researchers and graduate students in mathematics education, researchers in problem solving, as well as teachers and practitioners.

Author : Judit Orgoványi-Gajdos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9463007091

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Teachers' Professional Development on Problem Solving by Judit Orgoványi-Gajdos Pdf

Since teaching is a practical activity, efficient problem-solving skill is one of the fundamental competencies teachers need to possess. All teachers face challenging school situations during teaching-learning process no matter where they teach or since when. Despite similarities appearing on the surface, every school situation is unique and depends on several internal and external factors that should have been taken into account. Therefore, in many problematic cases it is not enough to deal with the symptoms, but teachers need to go deeper. This book provides a theoretical and practical background for this step-by-step problem solving-oriented thinking process. The practical activities can help teachers to frame and identify their challenges, to analyse the cause and effect of their situation, and also to find their own solutions and strategies. The material in this book can be used in pre-service or in-service teacher training that deal with pedagogic cases, or challenges of teaching and learning processes. However, most of the tools can also be used individually by teachers at any stage of their career, including any type of compulsory education, thanks to the clear description of each technique.

Author : Hilda Borko,Jennifer Jacobs,Karen Koellner,Lyn E. Swackhamer
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807773796

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Mathematics Professional Development by Hilda Borko,Jennifer Jacobs,Karen Koellner,Lyn E. Swackhamer Pdf

This resource will help school leaders and other professional development providers conduct ongoing, structured learning opportunities for mathematics teachers (K–12). The authors present models for professional development and the preparation of PD leaders designed and field-tested as part of two research projects supported by the National Science Foundation. The Problem-Solving Cycle model and the Mathematics Leadership Preparation model focus on topics of primary interest to mathematics teachers—mathematics content, classroom instruction, and student learning. They are intentionally designed so that they can be tailored to meet the needs and interests of participating teachers and schools. Through engaging vignettes, the authors describe the models, summarize key research findings, and share lessons learned. The book also includes detailed examples of workshop activities for both teachers and PD leaders. Book Features: Supports teachers’ learning and teaching of math in line with current reform principles.Develops math teachers’ capacity to foster students’ learning of the CCSSM content and practices.Prepares teacher leaders to facilitate professional development.Illustrates the use of video as part of professional development.Includes examples of workshop activities for teachers and teacher leaders. “This book presents an approach to teacher professional learning that integrates many popular ideas in the field, such as teacher leadership, evidence-based practice, and teacher learning communities. It avoids the superficiality that plagues so many treatments of these themes, offering readers depth, substance, detail, and clarity. This will surely be a valuable resource for educational leaders and professional development specialists seeking research-based ways to assist teachers to engage effectively in ambitious mathematics instruction that enables students to understand mathematics deeply and to use it effectively to solve problems.” —Edward A. Silver, William A. Brownell Collegiate Professor of Education & Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan “Mathematics Professional Development delivers the details we need but can rarely access. The authors detail a research-based, principled approach to school-based professional development that supports teachers in taking on the continual improvement of their practice.” —Megan Franke, professor, UCLA

Author : David T. Tuma,Frederick Reif
Publisher : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Education
ISBN : WISC:89038130845

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Problem Solving and Education by David T. Tuma,Frederick Reif Pdf

Author : Barbara Levin
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416600909

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Energizing Teacher Education and Professional Development with Problem-Based Learning by Barbara Levin Pdf

How can we help both beginning and experienced teachers engage students in today's diverse classrooms? How can we focus on actual problems that teachers face? This book offers a learning tool--problem-based learning (PBL). PBL is an instructional method that encourages learners to use critical thinking and problem solving as they apply content knowledge to real-world problems and issues. Editor Barbara Levin and the book's contributing authors believe that if teachers are to use PBL effectively with their K-12 students, they need to personally experience PBL themselves. Levin provides field-tested examples of how teacher educators have used PBL in many professional development settings. Based on actual PBL units and activities contributed by various authors, the book describes how teachers tackled authentic problems that required them to find, evaluate, and use resources to learn, just as they expect their students to do when using PBL. A brief introduction explains why and how to use PBL with teachers. Chapters 1-5 focus on how the chapter authors used PBL in different teacher preparation courses at several universities. Chapters 6 and 7 show how the authors, working with experienced teachers, used PBL in inservice and staff development settings. The final chapter offers answers to frequently asked questions about using PBL with teachers.

Author : Olia E. Tsivitanidou,Peter Gray,Eliza Rybska,Loucas Louca,Costas P. Constantinou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319914060

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Professional Development for Inquiry-Based Science Teaching and Learning by Olia E. Tsivitanidou,Peter Gray,Eliza Rybska,Loucas Louca,Costas P. Constantinou Pdf

​This book examines the implementation of inquiry-based approaches in science teaching and learning. It explores the ways that those approaches could be promoted across various contexts in Europe through initial teacher preparation, induction programmes and professional development activities. It illustrates connections between scientific knowledge deriving from the science education research community, teaching practices deriving from the science teachers’ community, and educational innovation. Inquiry-Based Science Teaching and Learning (IBST/L) has been promoted as a policy response to pressing educational challenges, including disengagement from science learning and the need for citizens to be in a position to evaluate evidence on pressing socio-scientific issues. Effective IBST/L requires well-prepared and skilful teachers, who can act as facilitators of student learning and who are able to adapt inquiry-based activity sequences to their everyday teaching practice. Teachers also need to engage creatively with the process of nurturing student abilities and to acquire new assessment competences. The task of preparing teachers for IBST/L is a challenging one. This book is a resource for the implementation of inquiry-oriented approaches in science education and illustrates ways of promoting IBST/L through initial teacher preparation, induction and professional development programmes.

Author : Belle Wallace,June Maker,Diana Cave
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136605765

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Thinking Skills and Problem-Solving - An Inclusive Approach by Belle Wallace,June Maker,Diana Cave Pdf

Discover and develop your pupils' strengths across the multiple intelligences by improving their problem solving skills. This book will: tell teachers all they need to know about multiple intelligences and problem solving provide a bank of problems that can be integrated into any lesson plan help teachers to identify gifted and able pupils guide schools on how to organize their curriculum using example curriculum plans. For teachers working across the Foundation Stage, Key Stages One and Two, Headteachers and those working at management level.

Author : Robert Delisle,Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Active learning
ISBN : 9780871202918

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How to Use Problem-based Learning in the Classroom by Robert Delisle,Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Pdf

Engaging and motivating students--especially the least motivated learners--is a daily challenge. But with the process of problem-based learning (PBL), any teacher can create an exciting, active classroom where students themselves eagerly build problem-solving skills while learning the content necessary to apply them. With problem-based learning, students' work begins with an ill-defined problem. Key to this problem is how it explicitly links something important in students daily lives to the classroom. This motivational feature is vital as students define the what, where, and how of resolving the problem situation. Problem-based learning may sound potentially chaotic and haphazard, but it rests on the firm foundation of a teacher's work behind the scenes. The teacher develops a problem long before students see it, specifically choosing the skills and content the problem will emphasize and matching those to curriculum and standards. Though a PBL problem will have no "right" answer, the teacher structures the experience so that specific learning takes place as students generate the problem-solving steps, research issues, and produce a final product. The teacher guides without leading, assists without directing.

Author : Margot Filipenko,Jo-Anne Naslund
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319020037

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Problem-Based Learning in Teacher Education by Margot Filipenko,Jo-Anne Naslund Pdf

This book offers readers a comprehensive understanding of problem-based learning (PBL) in teacher education. Featuring the perspectives of experienced teacher educators, it details the strengths of problem-based learning pedagogy as well as identifies continuing challenges and future possibilities. The book explains the goals, content, processes and strategies of a successful and longstanding problem-based learning teacher education program at the University of British Columbia. It features contributions from tutors, faculty, school administrators, faculty advisors, school advisors, librarians and pre-service teachers who share their perspectives about problem-based learning as a robust and exciting approach for teaching and learning. Overall, the contributors to the book discuss the history of the program, its implementation and future directions. In the process, readers discover the ways that problem-based learning has succeeded in preparing educators to teach diverse learners and acquire the professional dispositions necessary for teaching in today’s multilingual/multicultural classrooms.

Author : Alfred S. Posamentier,Stephen Krulik
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452295572

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Problem-Solving Strategies for Efficient and Elegant Solutions, Grades 6-12 by Alfred S. Posamentier,Stephen Krulik Pdf

This updated edition presents ten strategies for solving a wide range of mathematics problems, plus new sample problems.

Author : Ted McCain
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 1412913845

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Teaching for Tomorrow by Ted McCain Pdf

McCain concisely lays out the argument for preparing students for their world, guiding them to become independent and successful critical thinkers.

Author : Peter Liljedahl,Manuel Santos-Trigo,Uldarico Malaspina,Regina Bruder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319407302

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Problem Solving in Mathematics Education by Peter Liljedahl,Manuel Santos-Trigo,Uldarico Malaspina,Regina Bruder Pdf

This survey book reviews four interrelated areas: (i) the relevance of heuristics in problem-solving approaches – why they are important and what research tells us about their use; (ii) the need to characterize and foster creative problem-solving approaches – what type of heuristics helps learners devise and practice creative solutions; (iii) the importance that learners formulate and pursue their own problems; and iv) the role played by the use of both multiple-purpose and ad hoc mathematical action types of technologies in problem-solving contexts – what ways of reasoning learners construct when they rely on the use of digital technologies, and how technology and technology approaches can be reconciled.

Author : Celeste M. Brody,Neil Davidson
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998-07-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 0791438503

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Professional Development for Cooperative Learning by Celeste M. Brody,Neil Davidson Pdf

Describes different forms of professional development for cooperative learning and shows how the use of cooperative learning in professional development is leading to new insights into teaching and professional growth in schools.

Author : Linda Gojak
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 1425807887

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What's Your Math Problem!?! Getting to the Heart of Teaching Problem Solving by Linda Gojak Pdf

Provides instructional tools and methods to help teachers understand various problem solving strategies and discusses how to use each strategy with students.