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Improving the Quality of Mathematics Education:Two Teaching Modes and Taiwanese Student Learning
No full textStudents’ and teachers’ long-term (i.e. three years) experiences in three classes of the traditional direct instruction and constructivist class discussion approach to the mathematics teaching at a Taiwanese junior high school and at an experimental school in Taiwan were discussed in this study. This research utilized qualitative methods. The study adopted content analysis approaches from a qualitative perspective. This was combined with the perspectives of social constructivism and situated learning theories to interpret students’ learning and growth. The research findings of this study revealed differences in the group of students exposed to the constructivists teaching environment. These differences were evident in their mathematical competencies and richer students’ autonomy. However, when compared to the traditional teaching environment there were several challenges such as time use, understanding all classmates’ dialogue, mathematical writing ability in explaining and communicating their thinking and more teacher work. Constructivist class discussion classrooms in this study appeared open, relaxed, lively, friendly, and supportive of each other in building new knowledge. This was apparent in School E where the environment provided more opportunities for students to develop their own mathematical ideas. This environment also produced a more social/collective/adaptive form of mathematical knowledge, with ongoing assessment of information provided by the teachers, to inform instructional practices. The data presented here show that students exposed to the constructivist discussion approach had richer learning experiences which may be viewed as a result of their active participation during instruction. Compared to the their peers in School T, the traditional direct instructional group, School E students had more learning roles - (knowledge explorers, knowledge producers, and knowledge adventurers). Student in School T acted mainly as knowledge receivers; they mostly received and followed the teacher’s instruction and explanations of mathematical concepts, and then applied the received procedures to solve given mathematical problems.
The findings of the sequential relationship between teachers’ perceptions of mathematics/learning, teaching practice, and students’ knowledge/perceptions sheds new light on the social relationships between teaching and learning and the situated influences among classroom practices and students’ knowledge/competencies/perceptions. This investigation revealed that the constructivist approach seems to be an excellent medium to provide quality education. It is recommended that educators should re-introduce the use of a constructivist approach to teaching Mathematics because of its potential to enhance the quality of Mathematics education, which in turn augments students’ competency as future Mathematicians
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Name of Corporation In full -
'iKMsEFONT MINING CONPAXT.
IsoratJon of primipal place oi busl-
naaa, Nevada Hullding, Pal-a Alto,
Uanla Clara county, California.
Notice Is boroby given that at a
meeting of tha directors, beld on tha
fifth day of Deeem-dier, lfttlft. no aa-
vesment of Ave cants per share waa
lavlod-upoa ihe capital alack of aald
t'liriiiir.iti.in. payable on or before
Momliy, the scv-nnih day of January*
1907, to Theodora Vandervoort, the
r*--<-r«Ury of ths -Corporation at Palo
Alto, Santa Clara couuty, California.
Any stock upon which tbia aaaaa*
meat ahall remain unpaid on ths aald
■•■renth dsy of January, 1807, will be
delinquent and advertised for sab U
public auction, aad unlet* pityuant
is made before will be sold on Wa4-
ne*day, tbe twenty„»hlrd dr>y of Jan-'
tiary, 18V7. to pay the delinquent aa.
aeeatnent, togutlisr with thetoat of
advertising and stpenasa ot *a)e.
TIIBODOKB VANOEUVOOR1. .
Se.*retary, iMIefont Mining Compaar
IsOoaUoa of office of Secretary, Nevada I'.iilitilnK. Palu Alto, County o*
HanU Clara, California.
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Investigating the relationship between "effective" teachers and theoretical notions of effective teaching: An analysis of whole-group discussions
No full textThe literature base on teacher effectiveness has rapidly expanded in the past decade. Once dominated by social scientists, the literature is now heavily influenced by economists. Utilizing value-added modeling, economists have mainstreamed attempts to isolate the effect that a teacher has on student achievement. Findings from these attempts, however, confuse an improvement in measuring teachers with an improvement in measuring teaching. The field of education is still missing transparent, debatable measures of teaching practices. This study proposes a new measure, the adjusted whole-group discussion score, for one teaching practice—conducting whole-group discussions. It then uses that measure on a purposefully sampled group of teachers, and investigates its relationship to statistically derived measures of teacher effectiveness—that is, value-added estimates. This study is one of the first to go inside the classrooms of teachers being labeled effective through value-added modeling and to shed light on their classroom practices. In so doing, the study highlights different aspects of good teaching, which include being accountable to facts and procedures and being accountable to authentic discourse. Moreover, it articulates specific classroom discussion moves that can be used in targeted interventions. Findings illustrate that teachers with similar value-added scores can have markedly different teaching practices and that high value-added estimates do not necessarily reflect a full range of classroom teaching practices. The main policy implication of these findings is that, similar to students who need individualized instruction, teachers need individualized intervention
