ERIC Number: ED548770
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Oct
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A Mentoring Program for Inquiry-Based Teaching in a College Geometry Class
Miller, Nathaniel; Wakefield, Nathan
Online Submission, International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology v2 n4 p266-272 Oct 2014
This paper describes a mentoring program designed to prepare novice instructors to teach a college geometry class using inquiry-based methods. The mentoring program was used in a medium-sized public university with approximately 12,000 undergraduate students and 1,500 graduate students. The authors worked together to implement a mentoring program for the first time. One author was an associate professor and experienced using inquiry-based learning. The other author was a graduate student in mathematics education. During the course of the year the graduate student first observed and then taught a college level inquiry-based geometry course for pre-service teachers. This article describes the details of this mentoring program and our reflections on how the program went.
Descriptors: Geometry, College Mathematics, Mentors, Inquiry, Beginning Teacher Induction, Program Descriptions, Mathematics Education, Classroom Observation Techniques, Program Improvement, Learning Experience, Mathematics Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, College Faculty, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Colorado
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