Issues in Teacher Education
Spring 2014
STEM Education:
Educating Teachers for a New World
Babette M. Benken & Heidi J. Stevenson
Using PISA to Stimulate STEM Teacher
Professional Learning in the United States:
The Case of Mathematics
Edward A. Silver & Rachel B. Snider
Teachers Can Learn to Attend to Students’
Reasoning Using Videos as a Tool
Carolyn A. Maher, Marjory F. Palius, James A. Maher,
Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver, & Robert Sigley
Where is the “E” in STEM for Young Children?
Engineering Design Education
in an Elementary Teacher Preparation Program
Daniell DiFrancesca, Carrie Lee, & Ellen McIntyre
The Next Generation Science Standards,
Common Core State Standards, and English Learners:
Using the SSTELLA Framework
to Prepare Secondary Science Teachers
Sara Tolbert, Trish Stoddart,
Edward G. Lyon, & Jorge Solis
Piloting a Co-Teaching Model
for Mathematics Teacher Preparation:
Learning to Teach Together
Ruth Helen Yopp, Mark W. Ellis, Martin V. Bonsangue,
Thomas Duarte, & Susanne Meza
Developing Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching Teachers:
A Model for the Professional Development
of Teacher Educators
Alison Castro Superfine & Wenjuan Li
Myths and Motives behind STEM
(Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)
Education and the STEM-Worker Shortage Narrative
Heidi J. Stevenson
Book Review:
A Call-to-Action for Improving STEM Education
Reviewed by Torrey Trust
Non-Theme Articles
From “Urban” to Urban:
Engaging Schools and Communities
in Teacher Education
Ruanda Garth McCullough & Ann Marie Ryan
Using a Participant Pool to Gather Data
in a Teacher Education Program:
The Course of One School’s Efforts
Peter D. Wiens
Book Review:
Constructing Change in America’s Classrooms
Reviewed by Cyndi Mottola Poole