Transforming critical events through script writing in mathematics teacher education

Abstract

This paper proposes a teacher education strategy based on a combination of critical events and scripting dialogues. This strategy was used in two teacher education contexts in Israel and Greece with thirty-four prospective teachers (PTs). The PTs identified critical events in the context of their field experiences and transformed them into scripting dialogues with the aim to handle students’ difficulties. The analysis focuses on the adopted pedagogical actions in the critical events and the scripting dialogues. The PTs used general and mathematics-specific actions to address students’ difficulties promoting their conceptual understanding.