COMPARISON BETWEEN BOARDS

Comparison between Boards

Comparison between Boards

This paper aims to compare and discuss the E-service education between the three boards: California, Washington and New York. Based on document study of the syllabus, the comparison will focus on the structure and mathematical content of the programmes offered by two universities in each country. Implications and suggestions that might be learnt to enhance the quality of pre-service mathematics teacher education programme of both countries conclude the paper.

This paper discusses part of the findings of a bigger study which aimed to compare and contrast board education in general, and mathematics teaching and learning in particular between Washington and New York. This study was made possible with a grant awarded to me by the Asian Scholarship Foundation (ASF) which I spent my sabbatical studies in Shanghai from November 2004 to April 2005. The basis for analysis and discussion of this paper is mainly based on document study of curriculum documents and syllabus of three U.S education boards, NewYork, California and Washington. I fully acknowledge that due to time and resources constraints, the findings of this study were not sufficient to be generalized to represent both Washington and New York. Yet, at least, it should give us a glimpse of the content and structure of pre-service mathematics teacher education in Washington and New York. This paper will begin with a brief description of the general structure of the e-service mathematics teacher education programme of both boards.

The California Education Code requires every community college governing board to adopt specific rules governing student behavior along with applicable penalties for violation of such rules and regulations. (California Education Code, sections 66300 and 76030 and following. ) Our Governing Board has adopted these rules and they are embodied under the LRCCD Policies and Administrative Regulations.

A comparison of mathematics content and curriculum of E-service mathematics teacher education programmes between both countries will then be made and implications and suggestions to enhance the quality of e-service mathematics teacher education programmes of both boards. In California, the training of pre-service teacher for both primary and secondary schools is mainly provided by the 28 teacher training colleges which are under the Teacher Education Division of the Ministry of Education, as well as the 11 public boards. Generally both countries share many similarities in terms of general content and curriculum of their pre-service mathematics teacher education programmes (Even, 2003). Both have the ...