Very good last class – able to wrap up with solid discussions about the greater challenges of education and teaching.
Funds of Knowledge vs. Prior Knowledge
- Funds is about a community’s practice – not only culture but way of doing things
- How do use these practices within the classroom the help for learner
- Prior knowledge is typically something specific the student learned before
Cohen – Ms. Oublier
- Teacher training and professional development
- PCK and CK
- “She thought that her revolution was over. Her teaching had changed definitively. She had arrived at the other shore.” p. 325
- “Lacking deep knowledge, Mrs. O was simply unaware of much mathematical content and many ramifications off the material she taught…. Because her grip on mathematics was so modest.” p. 322
- “Hence teachers are the most important agents of instructional policy (Cohen, 1988; Lipsky, 1980), but the state’s new policy also asserts that teachers are the problem. It is, after all, their knowledge and skills that are deficient.” p. 326
- “Teachers also would have to learn a new practice of mathematics teaching, while learning the new mathematics and unlearning the old.” p. 327
San Francisco Teacher Residency
- Just like medical students
- Expose future teachers to practice
Week 1 reboot
- Look at the video again and see how much we have learned.
Video Notes:
- Sitting in groups
- Sets out clear mechanics of the class
- Peer-to-peer teaching
- Visualization of process – modeling by the teacher
- Student centered teaching
- Generate own data for better engagement and ownership of information
- Prior knowledge
- Transfer
- Modeling by the student on the board
- Asks questions from the students, doesn’t give out answers straight away
- Facilitation of the process
Post video notes:
- Clearly there was instructional planning
- PCK & CK were there
- Development – teacher was aware of where the students were and where he wants them to be at
- Assessment – peer review
- Classroom management – not much – students were already well behaved
Room for improvement
- Show relevance of content material with real life
Reread notes
- We were given out notes from the same video we did earlier in the quarter
- Noticed similar things but lacked some terminology acquired during this class
- Had not thought about / did not know about certain aspects or terminology of teaching:
- Classroom management
- Peer-to-peer teaching
- Modeling
- Prior knowledge
- Transfer
- Instructional planning
- ZPD