Using designed instructional activities to enable novices to manage ambitious mathematics teaching

Instructional Explanations in the Disciplines

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 129-141

  Lampert, Magdalene ^a   Beasley, Heather ^a   Ghousseini, Hala ^a   Kazemi, Elham ^b   Franke, Megan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ambitious teaching; deliberate practice; Exchange routines; instructional activities; teacher preparation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857012072     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0594-9_9     Document Type: Chapter

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