book: Teaching Problems and the Problems of Teaching

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	• Teaching Problems and the Problems of Teaching Magdalene Lampert Yale University Press, 2003 - 512 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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Best Book about Teaching I've Ever Read

This book attempts to lay out the terrain of teaching in all its complexity. The author collected a huge amount of triangulated data about a year of her elementary math teaching, and analyzed it in several dimensions, including establishing a classroom culture in the first week of school, teaching in small groups, large groups, choosing curriculum, and establishing students' identities as persons who do mathematics. The author cogently argues that understanding teaching requires a high degree of sophistication, and that the drop-in observer, armed with checklists of best teaching practices, can almost never understand what is going on in the classroom. One of the goals of this book is to provide teachers with a start on acquiring the intellectual tools and language to be able to talk about teaching so others can comprehend it. Although the topic is ostensibly fifth grade mathematics teaching, the issues it addresses run across disciplines and grade levels. I use it with my secondary science methods students, as it provides a framework for understanding teaching.

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In today's education debates, many experts call for school vouchers, smaller classes, more standardized testing, or rigorous teacher accrediting as the key to improving student performance. Remarkably, none of these approaches addresses what actually goes on in the classroom. In this book an experienced classroom teacher and noted researcher on teaching takes us into her fifthgrade math class through the course of a year. Magdalene Lampert shows how classroom dynamics--the complex relationship of teacher, student, and content--are critical in the process of bringing each student to a deeper understanding of mathematics, or any other subject. She offers valuable insights into students and teaching for all who are concerned about improving the learning that happens in the classroom. Lampert considers the teacher's and students' work from many different angles, in views large and small. She analyzes her own practice in a particular classroom, student by student and moment by moment. She also investigates the particular kind of teaching that aims at engaging elementary school students in learning fundamentally important ideas and skills by working on problems. Finally, she looks at the common problems of teaching that occur regardless of the individuals, subject matter, or kinds of practice involved. Lampert arrives at an original model of teaching practice that casts new light on the complexity in teachers' work and on the ways teachers can successfully deal with teaching problems.

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