Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!darkstar!saturn.ucsc.edu!marti From: marti@saturn.ucsc.edu (Marti Atkinson) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: Teaching teaching. Message-ID: <15446@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 6 May 91 19:32:43 GMT References: Sender: usenet@darkstar.ucsc.edu Organization: Univ of Calif, Santa Cruz Lines: 20 >>So, I think math instruction can be best improved not by teaching the >>teachers more math, but by giving them more teaching skills, including >>additinal training in how to teach math. >This assumes that there is a body of knowledge, "knowledge about the >teaching of...." >I would be interested to know if you have evidence for this. Actually, there is a rather large literature on the best ways to teach mathmatics, physics and a great variety of other subjects. The SESAME graduate program at UC Berkeley deals with exactly that subject... researching the best ways to teach math and science classes. Marti Atkinson University of Calif. at Santa Cruz marti@saturn.ucsc.edu marti@uccrls.BITNET ..!ucbvax!ucscc!saturn!marti