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Courses in mathematics content are standard fare for prospective and practicing teachers. Most of these courses are necessarily taught without an integrated component of classroom experience. Although the primary focus of a content course is mathematics not methodology, the content course is a proper forum to demonstrate an interplay between the mathematics understood by the teacher and the teaching methods used by that teacher. For example, a teacher who is insecure in his knowledge of an area is often very rigid in his presentation of that area and does not recognize or follow interesting student ideas. Having students play the role of classroom teacher is a technique that has helped students in my classes to see the interplay between understanding content and teaching it and to examine their depth of understanding in a particular area. I call it the “episode technique.” |
