These data are for 17 secondary mathematics teacher candidates (TCs) in four university teacher preparation programs, who implemented technology in their classrooms to teach for conceptual understanding in online, hybrid, and face-to-face classes during COVID-19. Using the Professional Development: Research, Implementation, and Evaluation (PrimeD) framework, a Networked Improvement Community (NIC) was formed by teacher candidates, classroom mentor teachers, field experience supervisors, and university faculty to discuss a commonly agreed upon problem of practice and a change idea to implement in the classroom. Through Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles, participants documented their improvement efforts and refinements to the change idea and then reported back to the NIC at the subsequent monthly meeting. The Technology Pedagogical Content Knowledge framework (TPACK) and the TPACK levels rubric (Lyublinskaya & Tournaki, 2011) were used to examine how teacher candidates implemented technology for Mathematics conceptual understanding. The Mathematics Classroom Observation Protocol for Practices (MCOP^2; Gleason, Livers, & Zelkowski, 2015) was used to further examine how effective mathematics teaching practices (e.g., student engagement) were implemented by TCs.
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Teaching Mathematics with Technology: TPACK and Effective Teaching Practices
This paper examines how 17 secondary mathematics teacher candidates (TCs) in four university teacher preparation programs implemented technology in their classrooms to teach for conceptual understanding in online, hybrid, and face to face classes during COVID-19. Using the Professional Development: Research, Implementation, and Evaluation (PrimeD) framework, TCs, classroom mentor teachers, field experience supervisors, and university faculty formed a Networked Improvement Community (NIC) to discuss a commonly agreed upon problem of practice and a change idea to implement in the classroom. Through Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles, participants documented their improvement efforts and refinements to the change idea and then reported back to the NIC at the subsequent monthly meeting. The Technology Pedagogical Content Knowledge framework (TPACK) and the TPACK levels rubric were used to examine how teacher candidates implemented technology for Mathematics conceptual understanding. The Mathematics Classroom Observation Protocol for Practices (MCOP2) was used to further examine how effective mathematics teaching practices (e.g., student engagement) were implemented by TCs. MCOP2 results indicated that TCs increased their use of effective mathematics teaching practices. However, growth in TPACK was not significant. A relationship between TPACK and MCOP2 was not evident, indicating a potential need for explicit focus on using technology for mathematics conceptual understanding.
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- Education Sciences
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- 12
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- 2
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- 2227-7102
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- National Science Foundation
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