Syllabus

Catalog Description: Experience designing and teaching lessons that have varying instructional intent and that use multiple instructional strategies; study and practice methods of classroom management; approximately 50 hours in cooperating schools, on-campus meetings. Prerequisite: admission to TEP.

Course Goals and Learning Outcomes: This course is designed to introduce you to teaching and learning mathematics in the secondary school. As a practicum course, you will have a dual immersion program: Part of your experience will be at cooperating schools and another part at the University of Iowa where you will engage in reading, reflection, presentations, listening/doing/learning, collaborating with colleagues/peers, developing lesson plans and teaching/learning trajectories, developing your repertoire of mathematics education practices. The course will help you initiate a commitment to a life-long study of teaching mathematics for understanding.

Purchase:

1. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. (2000). Principles and standards for school mathematics. Reston, VA: Author. [Available from http://www.nctm.org/] 
2. Membership: Iowa Council of Teachers of Mathematics (ICTM) at http://www.iowamath.org. Student membership is $5.
3. Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., and Cocking, R. R.  (eds.) (2000). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school (expanded edition). Washington, DC: National Academy Press. *Note: Available online for free and for purchase (hardcopy or pdf).

Download:

1. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. (2006). Curriculum focal points for prekindergarten through grade 8 mathematics: A quest for coherence. Reston, VA: Author. [Available from http://www.nctm.org/]
2. Iowa Core Curriculum at http://www.corecurriculum.iowa.gov