Fostering subject-driven professional competence of pre-service mathematics teachers – a course conception and first results

Abstract

We present ProfiWerk, a professionalization course geared towards preservice Gymnasium teachers in mathematics, which is part of the preparation for an extended school-internship phase. Since the transition from university education to school practice can come with adverse discontinuity effects – rendering, at worst, university education ineffective – special focus is put on establishing stable connections between both mathematics content knowledge and mathematics education knowledge to the professional demands on mathematics teachers.