1. Learning to Teach and Teaching to Learn via Visualization

2. Intentional Approach
Involving pre-service teachers as learners in inquiry activities
and then…
Reflecting on those learning activities as teachers

3. An Intentional Recursive Pattern in Mathematics and Science Pre-Service Teacher Education
Immersion
(e.g., in content-based activities that promote modeling and visualization)
Reflection
(of how content knowledge and understanding influence pedagogical understanding)
Synthesis
(of theory and practice as a novice teacher exiting the teacher education program)

4. Some pleasant benefits…
Along the way, we find our students…
Developing math/science representations through collaboration
Reporting creatively with interactive multimedia presentations

5. Some discoveries…
Modeling and visualization activities promote access to significant ideas in science and mathematics
Technology-based instruction helps promote higher-ordered cognition (inquiry, posing problems, formulating and testing conjectures, etc)
Emphasis is placed on competencies in both subject matter and pedagogy

6. Furthermore,… Visualization and modeling activities
Data are now being gathered (with increased sophistication)
to document growth.
These data are being collected from the cohorts in Year One through the end of Year Two and they address the pre-service teachers’ attitudes toward:
Visualization and modeling activities
Instructional uses of technology
Implementing these ideas as a novice teacher

7. In conclusion, we are learning the importance of connectivity…

8. Connectivity? The importance of exploration with pre-service teachers…

9. Leads to the potential of in-service teachers’ continued willingness to explore…

10. Which, in turn, promotes our ultimate objective.