TY  - JOUR
T1  - Development of Pre-service Middle School Mathematics Teachers’ Skills in Interpretation of Student Thinking in the Context of Lesson Study
AU  - Yılmaz, Nadide
AU  - Yetkın Ozdemır, İ. Elif
PY  - 2019
DA  - September
JF  - The Eurasia Proceedings of Educational and Social Sciences
JO  - EPESS
PB  - ISRES Publishing
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2587-1730
SP  - 67
EP  - 72
VL  - 14
LA  - en
AB  - Mathematicsteachers’ knowledge of students’ thinking has an important effect on theteaching-learning process (Cai, Ding & Wang, 2014; Clarkson & Presmeg,2008). Teachers who understand student thinking sufficiently can interpretstudent thinking effectively and can anticipate student misconceptions,difficulties, and errors. Furthermore, they can overcome these challenges withappropriate explanations (An, Kulm & Wu, 2004; Ball, Thames & Phelps,2008). The research revealed, however, that teachers/pre-service teachers havedifficulty interpreting student thinking (Crepso, 2000; 2003). This led to theconclusion that pre-service teachers need to develop skills in understandingand interpreting the student perspective (Hiebert, Morris & Glass 2003).The scope of this study was to improve pre-service middle school mathematicsteachers’ knowledge and interpretation of student thinking through lessonstudy. Three senior pre-service teachers participated in this study.Pre-service teachers implemented three practice lesson study cycles in a realclassroom. Data was obtained from documents, video recordings, observations,field notes, and reflective papers. In order to analyze data, content analysiswas used. Results showed that the pre-service teachers had some challengesknowing and interpreting student thinking at the beginning of the study. Aslesson study cycles proceeded, pre-service teachers began to take into accountstudent thinking, design and implement lesson plans according to students’needs and difficulties. 
KW  - Teachers' knowledge of students
KW  - Discussion skills
KW  - Lesson study
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