Discusses the mathematical preparation of new teachers in teacher-preparation programs. Outlines three of the many possible emphases that might make the mathematical preparation of secondary teachers more appropriate for a teaching career. (ASK)

Discusses how storytelling influences us and those around us, focusing on one teacher's story. After situating the inquiry within a narrative conceptualization of teacher identity and the professional contexts in which teachers work, the paper examines the teacher's story and examines ways in which response was continuously negotiated and lived…

Describes how the meaning of a tool was constructed by students and their teacher, and how students used the tool to construct mathematical meaning out of particular tasks through a qualitative classroom-based study. Suggests that the nature of the mathematical tasks and the role, knowledge, and beliefs of the teacher influenced the emergence of…

Critiques an article about problems with underqualified secondary teachers and out-of-field teaching. Discusses the influence of subject knowledge on student learning, noting that literature suggests its impact is of little consequence. While research does not blame out-of-field teaching for students' inferior international assessment performance,…

Provides an outline of knowledge areas in rehabilitation counseling and rehabilitation teaching related to visual impairments such as: core areas; planning and delivery services; job development, placement, and follow-along; job engineering; Braille and other tactual systems; communication systems; computers for individuals with visual…

Clarifies the distinction between what science teachers should teach and what they should know by exploring how and why key ideas in teaching high school physics differ from key ideas in the discipline of physics. (Author/SAH)

Considers what value there could be in talking of institutional trauma and connecting it to elements of the theory of trauma in a psychoanalytic setting. Seeks out the origin of these traumas in the successive crises that the mathematical knowledge of secondary teachers has had to confront over the course of history. (Contains 12 references.) (ASK)

Discusses the phenomenon of out-of-field teaching assignments, suggesting that this important, but long unrecognized, problem in schools remains largely misunderstood. The paper attempts to clarify two relevant issues: whether teachers' qualifications really matter and what measures of out-of-field teaching really measure. (SM)

A survey of Missouri secondary teachers and administrators received 616 responses indicating that agriculture teachers were most knowledgeable and most positive about agriculture; language arts and math teachers were least knowledgeable and positive. (SK)

Discusses creating an empowering multicultural curriculum, emphasizing that the curriculum a teacher teaches is as good as the teacher's understanding of what is being taught. Beliefs about what is worth teaching and about diverse people, society, students, and academic disciplines have much to do with the substance of the curriculum (SLD)

Investigates the knowledge that experienced science teachers have of models and modeling in science in the context of a school curriculum innovation project in which the role and the nature of models and modeling are emphasized. (Author/CCM)

Proponents of expanding art education to address visual culture sometimes mean by this no more than the idea that unconventional kinds of imagery may productively be treated as art. Sometimes, however, the goal is to replace the appreciative and interpretive stances that are conventional in teaching and learning about art with a polemical…

Various attempts to specify the nature of professions in general and of teaching in particular in relation to the knowledge that is needed for practice are considered. It is argued that there is no epistemic or moral criterion of professionalism that will sustain the claim of teaching to be a profession. The nature of teachers knowledge is…

Teaching, like other professions, involves the performance of contingent functions. This suggests three basic questions: What do teachers do? What affects what they do? How do they do it? Together, these questions provide a three-dimensional framework which can be used to plan, analyse and evaluate teaching. Such a framework falls short of a…

Researched in the narrative-inquiry tradition, this article continues to map the terrain of teachers professional knowledge landscapes by distinguishing knowledge communities from other teacher groups. It brings to light a bridging space in which the boundaries of teachers landscapes may shift, and their transactions may become less safe,…