Numbers Talk with Preservice Teachers
Hello All! I know it has been a while since my last post about my math adventures. I have changed jobs and am no longer worker with young children. I currently teach pre-service teachers. So far it is a joy to prepare future teachers to become effective teachers. My pre-service teachers and I started Number Talks. These teacher candidates include undergraduate and alternative masters program students. Alternative masters students are students who have obtained a bachelors degree in a non teaching field, but are seeking initial certification and will receive a masters degree in education. After giving the back ground history of Number Talks(NT) and assessing to determine if any of my students have knowledge of NT, it was determined this topic is new to them. Therefore, I started from the beginning by teaching the procedures of NT- fist to your chest, thumb up,...... Of course they followed the procedures quite well. I displayed dot images for 3 seconds. Then I ask how many did you s