COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ELECTIVE VL. PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
OMT 4032 ELECTIVE VL. PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Mathematics Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ESRA BUKOVA GÜZEL

Offered to

Mathematics Teacher Education

Course Objective

Introduce pedagogical content knowledge, which is one of the knowledge types that pre-service teachers must have, and its components; introduce theoretical frameworks of pedagogıcal content knowledge that support teaching of mathematics, illustrate the examples that are taken real classroom environments, reveal the importance of knowledge of teaching mathematics to perform effective mathematics teaching, and encourage pre-service mathematics teachers to desing teaching applications that support them to reflect the knowledge that they are taught to their future classroom.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Learning of what pedagogical content knowledge for teaching mathematics is.
2   Improve pre-service teachers understanding of the main components of pedagogical content knowledge for teaching mathematics
3   Reflectively evaluate the theoretical frameworks related to pedagogical content knowledge which is necessary to teach mathematics effectively
4   Discuss the pedagogical content knowledge using positive and negative examples that are collected from real classroom environments
5   Prepare and present the examples that support to reflect pedagogical content knowledge for teaching mathematics to pre-service teachers future classrooms.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Improve the understanding of knowledge that teachers must have
2 Improve the understanding of content knowledge for teaching mathematics
3 Improve the understanding of content knowledge for teaching mathematics and its components
4 Discuss the theoretical frameworks that were developed for pedagogical content knowledge for teaching mathematics
5 Discuss the theoretical frameworks that were developed for pedagogical content knowledge for teaching mathematics
6 Introduce the Knowledge Quartet and its units and components
7 Address the Codes and necessity of the Foundation Unit of Knowledge Quartet by demonstrating examples
8 Midterm Exam
9 Address the Codes and necessity of the Transformation Unit of Knowledge Quartet by demonstrating examples
10 Address the Codes and necessity of the Connection Unit of Knowledge Quartet by demonstrating examples
11 Address the Codes and necessity of the Contingency Unit of Knowledge Quartet by demonstrating examples
12 Pre-service teachers construct and develop examples that reflect their pedagogical content knowledge to their teaching mathematics, present these examples, and share their ideas.
13 Pre-service teachers construct and develop examples that reflect their pedagogical content knowledge to their teaching mathematics, present these examples, and share their ideas.
14 Pre-service teachers construct and develop examples that reflect their pedagogical content knowledge to their teaching mathematics, present these examples, and share their ideas.
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

All the books, articles, dissertations that includes the keywords "Matematiği öğretme bilgisi, alan öğretimi bilgisi, pedagogical content knowledge"

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Cooperative Learning, Brainstorming, Discourse, Problem Solving, Active Learning Strategies, Group Working

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FINS FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 +FINS * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

esra.bukova@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparation for midterm exam 1 7 7
Preparation for final exam 1 14 14
Preparing assignments 7 1 7
Preparing presentations 1 15 15
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 99

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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