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