Mathematics Teacher Education Organization, Curriculum and Outcomes

Abstract

The chapter is one entry in the world encyclopedia of mathematics education. It focuses on the following items of mathematics teacher education curriculum in the international perspective: characteristics, institutions, study programmes, professional teachers' competences.

It answers also the questions: Who teaches future teachers? and Who enters the profession?

Keywords

• Teacher education
• in-service teacher education
• professional teacher´s competences
• mathematics content and mathematics pedagogy content knowledge
• concurrent and consecutive study programmes
• teaching practicum
• mathematics and teacher educators