10: Using a Video-Case Curriculum to Develop Preservice Teachers’ Knowledge and Skills

We describe our use of a video-case professional development curriculum with preservice teachers in a middle school mathematics methods course. This curriculum was chosen because its video cases build on each other both mathematically and pedagogically, providing opportunities for teachers to make connections among the student thinking in various video clips that are not necessarily possible when using a collection of cases from a variety of sources. We illustrate the nature of the growth in the preservice teachers’ mathematical knowledge for teaching and in their development of a reflective stance towards teaching that occurred as a result of their engagement with these materials. We conclude that, with careful adaptations made in response to identified preservice teacher needs, materials developed for use with inservice teachers can effectively be used at the preservice level.