“I had never really made sense of that before”: Constructing Mathematical Content Knowledge and Teaching through Story Telling

Author(s)

Sara McCormick Davis
Gabriel T. Matney, Bowling Green State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Abstract

How do teacher educators in two different fields help pre-service teachers bridge content and pedagogical knowledge? This paper explores the experience of using story-telling over two courses that are required in an early childhood teacher education program. The authors, from two different colleges, used reflection prompted by story-telling to collaboratively support the construction of content knowledge in both a math content class and in a math methods class. Students were able to reflect on their own math content knowledge by telling and retelling their understanding of math knowledge construction and that of children they worked with over the semester.

Repository Citation

McCormick Davis, Sara and Matney, Gabriel T., "“I had never really made sense of that before”: Constructing Mathematical Content Knowledge and Teaching through Story Telling" (2013). School of Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications. 5.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/teach_learn_pub/5

Publication Date

Fall 2013

Publication Title

Journal of the Arkansas Association of Colleges of Teacher Education

Publisher

Arkansas Association of Colleges for Teacher Education