Teacher Work Samples: Preservice Teachers Assess Their Impact on Student Learning of Mathematics

By:
Dr. Ernest Oluwole Pratt
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Accountability and high standards for all, -students as well as teachers has become a popular chatchphrase in the United States, from the nation's capital to boardrooms of local school districts. With President George W. Bush signing the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, attention has been focused on teacher quality. As a result, teacher education programs around the nation are re-evaluating their teacher preparation programs to better meet the needs of their teacher candidates. The National Council for the Accredditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) in 2001, adopted the Teacher Work sample Mehtodology as one of the tools that teacher candidates can use to demonstrate impact on student learning. I did my doctoral dissertation on the Teacher Work Sample Methodology and I have been using the concept in my mathematics methods classes since my arrival at Mount Union College in 2000.


Keywords: Teacher Work Sample
Stream: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Presentation Type: 30 minute Paper Presentation in English
Paper: Teacher Work Samples

Dr. Ernest Oluwole Pratt

Asssistant Professor, Education Department, Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio
USA

I am currently the mathematics teacher educator at Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio, USA. My areas of interest include teacher preparation and impact on student learning, using manipulatives in teaching and learning of mathematics, assessment, and equity in mathematics education. In addition to supervising teacher candidates, I teacher mathematics methods courses and general education courses. I assess first year classroom teachers who are going throuh their licensure requirements using the Praxis III assessment tool for the State of Ohio. I am also a mathematics program assessor for NCATE/NCTM for the state of Ohio. My teaching career started in Sierra Leone, West Africa, where I taught mathematics and chemistry in a secondary school for six years before moving to Texas, USA, where I taught mathematics and physics for seven years in a high school. From Texas, I then moved to Tennessee, to pursue a Ph.D. in mathematics education. I have been the mathematics educator at Mount Union College since 2000.

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