Abstract
This chapter presents the Cognitive Affective Mathematics Teacher Education (CAMTE) framework, a framework used in planning and implementing professional development for teachers. The CAMTE framework takes into consideration teachers’ knowledge as well as self-efficacy beliefs to teach mathematics. The context of counting and enumeration is used to illustrate how the framework can be used to investigate preschool teachers’ knowledge and self-efficacy related to children’s conceptions. Different aspects of teachers’ knowledge, such as knowledge of students and knowledge of tasks are discussed. Ways of promoting teachers’ self-efficacy are also presented. Finally, the case of one preschool teacher is described in detail, showing how the teacher began to adopt a constructivist approach to instruction.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Early Mathematics Learning: Selected Papers of the POEM 2012 Conference |
| Editors | Ulrich Kortenkamp, Birgit Brandt, Christiane Benz, Götz Krummheuer, Silke Ladel, Rose Vogel |
| Place of Publication | New York, NY |
| Publisher | Springer New York |
| Pages | 291-306 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781461446781 |
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| State | Published - 2014 |