How Does an Instructor of the Geometry for Teachers (GeT) Course Build a “Thinking” Geometry Classroom?
Summary:
In this session, emerging research about how to effectively teach a college geometry course for prospective secondary mathematics teachers will be presented. The session presenter and researcher is a mathematics teacher educator and the instructor of her institution’s Geometry for Teachers (GeT) course, which primarily serves undergraduate secondary mathematics education students in their first semester of student teaching. Two frameworks which ground the instructional moves made by the researcher in her GeT course will be shared: Peter Liljedahl’s Building Thinking Classrooms (2020) and the University of Michigan GRIP Lab’s Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) for the GeT Course (2022). Data in the form of tasks for GeT students, samples of GeT student work, and pre- and post semester assessment data will be presented as a means of analyzing the effectiveness of the adapted strategies from Building Thinking Classrooms as well as students’ progress towards achieving the SLOs.
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Duration: 60 minutes
Format: Online seminar via Zoom web meeting software with questions and discussion. Detailed instructions for joining the seminar will be emailed to registered participants.
Presenter:
Mara Markinson is an assistant professor of secondary mathematics education at Queens College, City University of New York, which is also her alma mater. Mara’s research interests are: (1) the preparation of pre-service mathematics teachers to teach secondary geometry; and (2) professional development offerings for in-service teachers. Mara teaches courses in both mathematics education and mathematics.