What can we teach mathematics teachers? Lessons from Hong Kong

What can we teach mathematics teachers? Lessons from Hong Kong

Reforms and issues in school mathematics in East Asia: Sharing and understanding mathematics education policies and practices

• Leung, Koon Shing Frederick The Hong Kong Institue of Education
• Lee, Man Sang Arthur
• Leung, Allen Yuk Lun
• Lopez-Real, Francis
• Mok, Ah Chee Ida
• Wong, Ka Lok

• Leung, Frederick Koon Shing
• Li, Yeping

Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Sense Publishers

2010

• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MA Professional Education for Teachers
• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GC Mathematics & Statistics

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

In this chapter, we give an overview of the mathematics teacher education in Hong Kong. Against this background, the contents of the preparatory programme for pre-service and in-service mathematics teachers offered by the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong are reviewed. Important stages of changes of the programme in the past decade are traced, and the content of the mathematics-related component is analyzed. Four issues on preparation of mathematics teachers are then discussed. They include: understanding of the mathematics curriculum, mastering of generic teaching skills and the teaching of specific topics, the development of basic needs for an era of information technology, and the development of teachers’ ability of self-reflection.
[Copyright © 2010 Sense Publishers. The publisher web site is located at https://www.sensepublishers.com]

• English

Book Chapters

• 9789460912269

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/c80c9b37

2015-12-08