Is teachers' general pedagogical knowledge a premise for noticing and interpreting classroom situations?

Periodical
Teaching and Teacher Education
Volume
38
Year
2014
Page range
76-88
Relates to study/studies
TEDS-M 2008

Is teachers' general pedagogical knowledge a premise for noticing and interpreting classroom situations?

A video-based assessment approach

Abstract

We examine how the declarative-conceptual general pedagogical knowledge (GPK) assessed via a paper-and-pencil test can be understood as a premise for early career teachers' ability to notice and interpret classroom situations assessed via video-vignettes. Longitudinal data from TEDS-M conducted in 2008 at the end of teacher education and a follow-up study in Germany in 2012 is used. Teachers' skills to notice and interpret differ. Interpreting correlates with the current level of GPK, whereas noticing does not. GPK at the end of teacher education neither predicts noticing nor interpreting, which suggests teachers' cognitions are reorganized during the transition into teaching.