Professional competencies for teaching mathematical modelling – supporting the modelling-specific task competency of prospective teachers in the teaching laboratory

Raphael Wess (1) , Gilbert Greefrath (1)

1 University of Muenster

Mathematical modelling has been a mandatory component of the German educational standards in mathematics for the last 15 years. Teachers need a range of cognitive abilities and skills to adequately teach modelling to their students. Within the MiRA+ teaching laboratory, we focused on supporting the development of the professional competencies associated with mathematical modelling in prospective teachers. Encouraging teachers to design own modelling tasks and apply them in practice successfully aided the development of modelling-specific task competencies with a crucial role in the acquisition of competency by their students. This article presents a promising array of initial results on the development of task competency in teacher education.

Mots clés: Mathematical modelling; modelling task; task competency; teacher education

Domaines: Mathématiques [math]; Education

Raphael Wess, Gilbert Greefrath. Professional competencies for teaching mathematical modelling – supporting the modelling-specific task competency of prospective teachers in the teaching laboratory. Eleventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, Utrecht University, Feb 2019, Utrecht, Netherlands. ⟨hal-02409039⟩