I’m arguing 25% is enough to establish a rapport with the students who aren’t engaged by the material itself. I was a math major and was good at math until college, then I just survived. I still use a book now but it’s supplemented w resources from #mtbos. So to loop back to the question as I read it, should teachers focus their time developing their pedagogical skill or their content knowledge? I’d love to have a little more info on the question. For example, challenging language demands in math include: symbolic notation; visual displays, such as charts and graphs; technical vocabulary; and grammatical features such as complex noun phrases. What percentage of professional development time does your school/district devote to improving teaching ability compared to knowledge of the content? And this is where I’ll go back to my original point — I believe that there is a mathematical pedagogy which really is the complex relationship between mathematically understanding and pedagogical thinking. The balance between pedagogy and content is abstract unless we are given time and structures to meet with other teachers and talk about the content and how we teach it in a grounded way. (I would like to imagine that this pertains to all content, but I have no basis for making such an assumption). A teacher’s subject knowledge is incredibly important. Over the years, my mindset about teaching and learning has changed, I like to think that I’ve moved in a direction of understanding why it is important for students to take a more active role in their own mathematical sense making, and that I’ve begun to understand the importance of a positive math disposition (see Mark Chubb’s post about Growth Mindset among others). While teacher content knowledge is crucially important to the improvement of teaching and learning, attention to its development and study has been uneven. A teaching executive had an open ended classroom where she modelled formative assessment. I’m going to go with 70:30. To educate is an active enterprise. Pedagogy > content but not by much. If a teacher has strong content area knowledge and lacks some ability to pass that knowledge onto their students, I think there are easy ways to overcome this problem. Particularly since there isn’t sufficient time in a day to browse the latest on quantum computing. Now, tutoring is far different than teaching, and I don’t think it’s a good idea to have teachers teaching outside of their area of expertise, but both of these experiences made me realize that building a relationship, finding the right entry points, meeting a student where they are at – these are the things that make a great teacher. In a review of research behind effective teaching, Coe et al. Teaching is such an on-the-job-training profession! An example of an all-purpose ICT resource which benefits students and teachers is the use of the website ‘Improve’. What a great conversation going on. That they are now more skilled w/ pedagogy then when they started or that they were driven by reflection to change and learn. I find that shift in language helpful. I dunno, that’s not my job – I’m in marketing! It has strong connections to project work, task-based learning and a holistic approach to language instruction and has become particularly popular within the state school secondary (11 - 16 years old) education sector. When I was a senior in college, I had built a reputation as a good tutor for calculus, multivariable calculus, linear algebra, and other “intro” math classes. Are You Teaching Content, Or Teaching Thought? We probably can all agree with the importance of content knowledge at some level. If you know how to teach and how to learn, you can teach almost anything given some time, motivation, and support. Knowing When to Teach Current Events 5 questions faculty members should ask themselves before they weave a recent controversy into their courses By Noliwe M. Rooks The incorporation of ICT in the classroom opens up a variety of innovative and engaging ways to deliver content to students. I don’t know where it falls: pedagogy or content, but to me it is a mix, lets call it a deep “contentogy” or “pedatent” that is the most vital: structure, connections, relationships, and progressions. Teaching at its most literal level educating, imparting knowledge is the most fundamental part of a teacher’s job. Know the practices or process standards for a good start. in math) and no pedagogy. In addition, the quality of the tasks is critical, because students acquire better knowledge and perform better if you use high-quality tasks. Content Knowledge for Teaching: Innovations for the Next Generation of Teaching Assessments . How would I help a group of 5 year olds learn how to write or read or even stand in a straight line? My planning involves building skills and knowledge, consolidating and building futher on these skills. What I have noticed in reading these comments is that the issue might not be what a teacher brings to the table (knowing more content or being more skilled in pedagogy), but how that teacher approaches refining his/her craft. So here’s where I need help — if you really feel pedagogy can be separated from content, that you can have pedagogically understanding absent from content understanding, can you describe to me what pedagogical knowledge is without using content or referencing content? Or that the teacher focused their attention equally between their teaching craft and their content? 12800. [17.8KB], Tuesday, 18 June 2013 The students explored the various structure, wording … If you have a lesson that works, you will tend to go back to it. Practice What You Teach In conclusion… my argument is frankly as flawed as all the rest, because if EVERY teacher was 25:75, we’d probably be in trouble. As that has happened I have notice that some excellent teachers (ability) struggle to teach some of these new and challenging concepts, I believe that is true because they don’t have the background (content knowledge) to do so. Concept checking is finding out if a learner has understood a new item. (this question came from Heather Fenton at the original dinner) In addition, they know they need to increase their pedagogical skills so that they better understand how to move the student from a misconception to a corrected conception in a way that makes sense to that student. But one teacher said that he thinks content knowledge must come first. I know it’s not part of the given dichotomy, but teacher beliefs about what teaching math are foundational here, see the Math Ed podcast 1505 Patricia Campbell linked below: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mathed/episodes/2015-03-07T05_39_44-08_00. July 10, 2019. I would feel comfortable teaching algebra 1, because i taught it to an accelerated group once. Does the fact that they are excellent teachers overcome this content shortcoming? On Tuesday night I spend the evening at a great local pub debating this issue with a colleague who had sent me some terrific research on this very issue. So much fun and depth in this discussion. Pedagogy and content knowledge are not discrete parts making a whole. Knowledge of a subject is what you might get out of a degree in a particular discipline; pedagogical knowledge might come from teacher training in the form of postgraduate qualifications or an education degree. We could use the word ‘teach’ but isn’t great teaching helping students to ‘learn’ effectively with transfer and deeper understanding? Using a combination of assessment practices is the only way to paint a full picture of students learning journey. It is especially important in inductive language teaching, where learners arrive at an understanding of rules through looking at examples of use, and the teachers may need to check that the learners have a clear understanding of the concepts presented. is complex and requires a deep understanding of the language demands of the content. Reaching for an analogy, a museum tour guide better know where most of the items are located in the building, to not get people lost – and oh yes, they likely need to know enough to keep track of everyone in the tour group. The majority went straight for the teaching ability. If I have a high percentage in teaching ability, am I better able to learn content I don’t know? Teachers vary the same way our students vary, in our strengths and weaknesses, both with teaching ability and content knowledge. This makes it hard to meet students where they are. i’ve also seen really smart people be terrible teachers. I see Michael’s question as a fluid one of balance between the two. I have a few questions that have been rolling around in my brain. Element 1, Aspect 1.1.1 – demonstrate relevant knowledge of the central concepts, modes of enquiry and structure of the content/discipline(s). If we can agree that the overarching goal in the mathematical experience is to understand, then for sure pedagogy trumps content knowledge, because the methods that you use with your students are the ones that allow both the teacher and the students to acquire content knowledge (sometimes simultaneously! Which category does “Passion of Content” belong? The comments are where it’s at. by Terry Heick. On my most recent placement I travelled with the indigenous students of the school to the local community centres to promote ‘Tracks to Reconciliation’. The use of formative assessment throughout teaching allows adjustments to me made to planning and learning sequences. Also if I were to teach a geometry course for the first time, I’d be more confident doing so with a Cpm book because I’m familiar with the structure of the text and of cooperative learning groups. That analogy is flawed, most visitors to a museum choose to be there, but there IS no good analogy because no one is ready for teaching! Which matters more? Organise content into an effective learning and teaching sequence. With all that said, I’m finally leveling off at 70% teaching ability and 30% content knowledge. More recently, however, there has been a growing recognition that a teacher’s subject knowledge is vitally important. [1.9MB], Download Mathematics Education 2 - Unit of Work.docx, Monday, 15 July 2013 I think 100% pedagogy with 0% content leads to math “tricks.”. Does that mean it is 50/50 with a drive to continually grow in both? I also think this goes for many subjects. 70-30? It also involves how confident you are in murky areas. Even MissMathTeacher314 mused “It’s not always easy for teachers who have always been good at the teaching part to accept that they need some help with the content part.” (Granted, she went 65:35.) I learned content from them as well, informally and in math circles and workshops. I hope to have many opportunities to use smart board technology in the classroom and become better skilled in implementing engaging smart board activities. It was so freeing early in my career to realize that I didn’t have to be an expert at everything to teach. I had the opportunity to view easy to implement formative assessment strategies such as red block = students do understand an instruction and green block = students do understand. It seems to me that some are arguing that it is easier to acquire content than pedagogy. This approach also allows end of lesson consolidation an integral part of each lesson. So then, is this a discussion about which is easier to learn? I’ll share the question here in the selfish hope that I’ll be able to hear a few more opinions, and continue my own pondering (and learning) in the process. For me, it’s somewhere in the range of 90-10, so I’ll go with 88.8-11.2, teaching ability:content knowledge. My reasoning is that you can only truly teach as far as your content knowledge and a little pedagogy can go a long way. I could do math. Content can be learned more easily? For one, it is an intimate act splicing time and space. 2.2 Content selection and organisation. For this to happen, you would need a depth of understanding in your content knowledge. This approach allows students to look specifically at what they will be learning rather than trying to find the hidden points throughout the lessons. To be effective you need a deep understanding of both. I think there’s some content knowledge that needs to happen, to speak to Suzanne’s point. [331KB], Tuesday, 18 June 2013 Naysayers, please take a moment to think about this quote:\"Adolescents entering the adult world in the 21st century will read and write more than at any other time in human history. We don't always know who created something, why they made it, and whether it's credible. Planning begins with thinking about how you would like your students to approach their learning in your subject, and what you would like them to understand, know or be able to do by the end … What she found most important in the lower grades (and still quite important in middle school) was that teachers were aware of the importance of students having positive mathematical dispositions and that they reported doing things with their students to bolster their mathematical dispositions, particularly when paired with higher teacher content knowledge. Through placement I have quickly learnt how an entire planned unit can become obsolete. One, check out the conversation we had around Ben Orlin’s blog on this: https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2015/12/09/what-level-of-teaching-is-right-for-me/. There are an endless number of engaging, effective strategies to get students to think about, write about, read about, and talk about the content you teach. I know the question is vague, but if you’re going 80:20, I’m stealing all your knowledge of polynomials, and good luck. I am continually searching, learning, collaborating, and working to improve my teaching ability so that I can better design learning experiences for my students. Therefore in my experience, really good teachers are strong learners and thus develop content knowledge. Why the imbalance, and why isn’t there just a framework on ‘pedagogy’ — why is it wrapped up inside content? [308.1KB], Standard 1 - Know students and how they learn, Copy of Copy of Standard 3 - Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning, Copy of Copy of Standard 4 - Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments, Copy of Copy of Standard 5 - Assess provide feedback and report on student learning, Copy of Copy of Standard 6 - Engage in professional learning, Copy of Copy of Standard 7 - Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community, Report Comment - Content and Strategies.jpg, Report Comment 2 - Content and Strategies.2.jpg, Mathematics Education 2 - Unit of Work.docx, Modelling comprehension strategies e.g. What I hear Daniel, John, and Robert saying is that they have changed and grown since they started teaching. Psshh… 0% content. I have three ed degrees now and no math degree but I have picked up enough math content AND teaching skill over the years that I am confident that I am not doing any harm to my students even when I teach AP Calc or AP Stats. Knowing the structure of mathematics, the connections and the relationships between concepts is vital. Both units include different strategies for students explore the content. You cannot use collaborative learning strategies or behavior management your way into quality math teaching without content knowledge. I’m going to have to agree with Daniel and lean on Robert on this one. My goal for a student is that she will speak with authority on a topic to which she was just introduced. It is essential that children learn values such as tolerance and respect for … I’m guessing that most teachers who are responding on this site are not of this mindset, but I would argue that nationwide a majority of teachers are. I was not ready for teaching, ergo, having that ability (at the outset) would be more important? I will aim to do this through professional conversations with colleagues and through personal development and my own research. In this podcast, Pat found that for middle school teachers who have traditional beliefs about what good math teaching is, their content knowledge was absolutely critical to student achievement. In my opinion, teachers should have a good content knowledge to enter the classroom and good mentors to develop pedagogical strategies. That said, I’m chewing on this more and more and I’ve come to the conclusion that It’s hard to think of pedagogy without content, but I can work on math content without thinking about pedagogy. I don’t think you can have one without the other. As I effectively utilize good pedagogy, the lessons crafted should increase my own awareness and depth of content. The students were eloquent in their opinions. As I add pedagogical understanding, it needs to be supported upon a scaffold of experience/knowledge built during my growth in content knowledge. I have since learned so much about mathematics that I never knew. [15.9KB], Thursday, 20 June 2013 I feel like I know a lot about pedagogy, but there’s is so much to know. You would need this to keep students in the flow of the learning, catching/correcting growing misconceptions and for encouraging and extending their learning. I have no experience in secondary, but I think elementary teachers education programs need more content courses in addition to pedagogy focused ones (my 2 years BEd on top of 4 year BA degree was all pedagogy). We constantly bounce back an forth between content and pedagogy throughout a given day. Knowledge of multiplication facts or the process of multiplying efficiently without the ability to help others isn’t helpful. (Learn how to use movies and TV to teach media literacy.) No need to watch the whole thing, but the set-up might get you thinking. I’m going opposite of some others that I highly respect. It helps create confident communicators, imaginative thinkers and informed citizens. It was unbelievable. Style over substance. No one is ready for teaching. I agree that content knowledge without excellent teaching ability is useless in the classroom. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! If you prefer that formulation—or if you’d like to push back and offer your own related question—go for it. In our English classrooms we teach far more than just the language. Update: Several commenters reframed the question as pedagogy vs content knowledge. Reflecting back, the topics I was less secure on, I taught the best because I boned up on my content knowledge. So, if I were to place a stance on one side or the other, I would have to say that the best way to deepen BOTH is to talk more about the content we are teaching! Ignoring the 5 bazillion variables here I’m going to say 50% teaching ability and 50% content knowledge. The most idealistic, non-mathematical answer is 100% pedagogy and 100% content knowledge, but I know that’s a cop out to your question! It is concerned with the tasks involved in teaching and the mathematical demands of these tasks. Being confident of content knowledge then frees one up to work on classroom practice, develop relationships with students, etc. I would counter that both are equally challenging to acquire, yet crucial to successfully teaching students. 1. Buy my stuff! I remember the ones who knew how to teach. This lack of support is ironic since a good case can be made that transfer is the primary purpose of schooling. While saying this… I think far more teachers are willing to delve into pedagogical conversations than content ones. So yes, 0:100 is inadequate, but with the 25:75, let the passion for the content (it’s NOT dry and unemotional) shine through, even if you’re not sure how to set up your classroom desks. The fundamental importance of Literacy and Numeracy are recognised across all significant documents driving Australian schools. And it was created for a reason. TPACK stands for technological pedagogical content knowledge, and is what all teachers are supposed to work towards in the classroom. This program is designed to assist teachers in understanding some of the most significant beliefs and cultural practices of the Ngunnawal people. If schools aren’t teaching kids an awful lot of content — that is, history, science, literature, and the arts — the same kids who do well on third-grade tests can fail later tests — not because they can’t decode the words on the tests, but because they cannot understand the words once they’ve decoded them. Anyone familiar with the work of John Hattie – director of the Mel… Tracy. I think that process need to be an essential part of any teaching credentialing program. I have also seen them both work hard to acquire what did not naturally come to them. It is important for lessons to include clear instructions and orientation of the content, a middle part/activity where students explore the content and a summary or consolidation for what has been explored and learnt. 1. You would have to know the big ideas and how they fit. [420.4KB], Tuesday, 18 June 2013 This system involves students knowing what the aim of the lesson is and states how students will get there and what they will know at the end of the lesson. I hear a lot about the shift that occurs elementary and secondary, from pedagogy to content. It is important that you understand your subject matter before you start speaking. Understanding that reason is the basis of media literacy. It is done right here, but it spans moments in the pasts and reaches out uncertainly towards moments in the future.Put another way, you think in a singular, precise space about plural, imprecise times. To pull another analogy, this emphasis on ability over content is (to me) like increasing our marketing, at the expense of what we’re actually “selling”. Because you want the latest piece of special shiny math right here, yeah? I work with amazing teachers; inspiring mentors, but I am not sure that they have the content knowledge to help students gain a deep, conceptual understanding of math. But one can know content. My first thought is I would be absolutely useless teaching a French class and the content mountain would be very difficult to ascend. In the second scenario, I think again only those who are already good at math will be helped. My favourite lessons are the ones in which I learn alongside my students rather than transferring my knowledge directly to them. [16.9KB], Tuesday, 18 June 2013 One of the truisms in teaching is that you must understand what you teach. This experience was invaluable because it forced me to find connections between topics and across grade levels in order to meet each student where they were. We do. I think I would also be mostly useless in a kindergarten class. Element 1, Aspect 1.1.1 – demonstrate relevant knowledge of the central concepts, modes of enquiry and structure of the content/discipline (s). In my personal experience, I was always comfortable with math as a student and typically excelled. It's common to believe that literacy instruction is solely the charge of language arts teachers, but, frankly, this just is not so. Standard 2 - Know the content and how to teach it. Implement teaching strategies for using ICT to expand curriculum learning opportunities for students. There are a variety of ways to do this, including asking concept questions. It is concerned with the tasks involved in teaching and the mathematical demands of these tasks. Young children tend to think that everything is important! I may know all sorts of mathematical concepts, but if I don’t know how to teach others these ideas the there will be little to no success. If it’s the latter, I would say that it’s pretty important for teachers to remain balanced. So, given this vision of the question I would definitely fall toward the 80-20 camp (or Stevens’ brilliant 88.8 – 11.2) My early teaching life story is different from Kaplinsky’s. Planning is crucial in knowing what to do within the classroom. So regardless of what percentages we bring to the table, I think the important thing is that we support each other to strive to be 100% in both areas. A focus on the art of guiding learners is just as important. I’m curious what you meant by teaching ability. Pure math undergrad with no classroom experience. by William Powell and Ochan Kusuma-Powell. Hopefully we will continue to learn more about the developmental nature of mathematics (deepen our content knowledge) and discuss the pedagogical moves we make as we do so. But we need to continue to hone our mathematics content knowledge throughout our teaching careers. i’d go with pareto’s law. I am in the camp that believes teachers teach best when they know their content very well, and continue to seek out ways to learn more. However I don’t think that the inverse of that statement is necessarily true. I love this question and have been considering it seriously for a couple hours. https://youtu.be/T25YN-bTrmk (Can’t seem to get it to fire from the beginning, but just reset it at the beginning.) I learned to teach by watching colleagues. The standard ‘Professional Knowledge: Teachers know the content they teach’ is important because “research suggests teachers’ content knowledge impacts their practice” (Kastberg, 2004, p.1). I don’t know.) If a teacher has high ability and lacks content area knowledge the journey to acquire more content area knowledge is a long and arduous one. The first lesson introduced letter writing through a class discussion about the importance of sending and receiving letters and to gain an understanding on the students prior knowledge. The discussion is facinating to listen to. using real life mathematical problems. The teaching of the Academic Language component, (vocabulary, grammar, syntax, style, etc.) My content knowledge has increased by teaching and learning from colleagues. No one is ready for teaching. This is an interesting question. Thinking is troublesome. I don’t buy that the two can be separated. At the risk of overthinking here, it seems that both content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge should be growing on a pretty regular basis. Content Knowledge for Teaching: Innovations for the Next Generation of Teaching Assessments . Case-in-point: aren’t there many (but nowhere near all) teachers in elementary school who are a bit math-phobic themselves? I’m not sure what the balance is now, but let’s say it’s 40/40. – Thinking Mathematically. The importance of teaching grammar in English language is an ongoing debate. [The most common reaction is: “That’s it???!! Agree with Claire’s 60-40 and that the meaningless tricks come from not knowing the math, and with jstevens009 about needing to know where the content leads to be able to weave the story. Utilising multi-modal resources I seek to engage students and give them hands on, pictorial and abstract experiences with the content. (this was a question my wife asked). Professional Development: What Should It Look Like? I enjoyed history, but hadn’t studied it since I was in high school, and was a chapter ahead of the class the whole year. Use curriculum, assessment and reporting knowledge to design learning sequences and lesson plans. There must be a mix, but I am not sure what it is. Teachers with high content knowledge had high student achievement, but students with low content knowledge had very poor student achievement. Two, I replied to this idea of Ben’s at TMC last year. I truly think this is what we’ve been after in all of the shifts of recent times — not just a realignment of what we teach, but how we teach it. It is important for lessons to include clear instructions and orientation of the content, a middle part/activity where students explore the content and a summary or consolidation for what has been explored and learnt. Rather, I see these percentages as teacher learning goals. How to teach expository text structure. It seems to be answering a different question if your response is: I would pick X% and Y% today because tomorrow both will be higher! First and foremost — I don’t think there is something as pure as the pedagogy being described in many of the responses above. Give me an armada of content knowledge experts without pedagogy and I’ll take you to my upper division math classes at UCLA. My first year I had awful pedagogy therefore weak classroom management. This is a part of being adaptive as you need to adapt to new challenges quickly and efficiently. It is not always easy for teachers who have always been good at the teaching part to accept that they need some help with the content part. The Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians recognises that literacy and numeracy knowledge of key disciplines remain the cornerstone of schooling for young Australians, The Australian National Curriculum states that 'the study of English is central to the learning and development of all young Australians. The difference between these words, educate and teach, has resulted in many different instructional strategies, some more active and … Important to note here is that our definition begins with teaching, not teachers. Importance of Content Knowledge. You pay a lot of interest at the beginning (content knowledge) and then you get to pay more and more of the principle (classroom practice). My answer is 85:15 content over pedagogy. My “content knowledge” was not valuable because I could do but didn’t know how it worked. Much of teaching is instinctual. After all, how can you develop classroom practice if you have nothing to teach. My perspective on the question lead me to actually wonder which “short coming” is easier to work on. This came up in a dept heads meeting today. What’s the ideal breakdown? I’m not sure this is answerable. Great question and discussion. One of the things I love most in life is a sense of synchronicity. Plus as Dylan implied, a majority of teachers out there may not be of our mindset – and hey, that’s a good thing. As an instructor of both preservice and inservice teachers, I have seen both groups show natural talent for one or the other. 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