How do Prospective Teachers Manage Students’ Learning of Mathematics?

• Main Authors: Tatag Yuli Eko Siswono, Sugi Hartono, Ahmad Wachidul Kohar, Karim Karim, Netti Lastiningsih
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: UIKTEN 2019-05-01
• Series: TEM Journal
• Subjects: management of learning; prospective teachers; students’ ability
• Online Access: http://www.temjournal.com/content/82/TEMJournalMay2019_677_685.pdf

This article describes the preferences of a prospective teacher on the management of learning mathematics in the classroom. This descriptive research involves nine prospective elementary teachers at a state university in Indonesia. Data were collected through the task of designing learning scenarios that included a variety of student ability options. Results show that they prefer to apply problem-based learning and cooperative learning and selecting choices of learning approaches mainly based on the level of student mathematical ability, instead of gender and motivation. As a suggestion, prospective teachers need to be given skills to make argumentative decisions in deciding the appropriate learning approaches.