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Chapter 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0120-6.ch018
ABSTRACT
As teacher education leverages online instructional environments, an important research focus is how
best to re-conceptualize mathematics inservice teacher classroom observations. This chapter proposes an
alternative methodology to the structure of traditional observations, where the Scoop Notebook provides
a window into mathematics teachers’ Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), specif-
cally their TPACK-of-practice. In this descriptive, cross-case study, a re-designed Scoop process frames
teachers’ engagement in classroom practices, putting into practice their scholarly formal knowledge and
developing in-depth, rich refections from their classroom actions and artifacts. This study illustrates
how embedding the Scoop process into a graduate instructional strategies course as part of a Master’s
degree curriculum results in engaging teachers in action research where they use artifacts as objects to
think with for transforming their TPACK for integrating technologies in teaching mathematics.
INTRODUCTION
The digital age illuminates multiple technological tools for supporting students in learning mathematics.
Geometer’s Sketchpad, virtual manipulatives, and graphing calculators offer some tools for teaching
and learning mathematics in the spirit of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
technology position statement:
Mathematics Teachers’
Knowledge-of-Practice
with Technologies in an
Online Masters’ Program:
Scoop Action Research
Experiences and Refections
Margaret L. Niess
Oregon State University, USA
Henry Gillow-Wiles
Oregon State University, USA