A web-based resource providing reflective online support for preservice mathematics teachers on school practice

Herrington, A., Herrington, J., Oliver, R. and Omari, A. (2000) A web-based resource providing reflective online support for preservice mathematics teachers on school practice. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 1 (2). pp. 117-140.

Abstract

I have come, over the years, in spite of all the reform agendas, to believe that the best we can do in teacher preparation programs, through a variety of courses and clinical experiences in intentionally selected schools, is to help academically able and socially committed students enter teaching with constructive dispositions and skills relating to young people, curriculum content, pedagogy, and the power of collective thought; well-developed habits of observation and reflection; reasonable confidence and an understanding that they are entering a process of learning something important every day, working toward the largest possibilities they can imagine.