AN ANALYSIS OF PRIMARY TEACHERS’ REFLECTIONS ABOUT THEIR MATHEMATICS CLASS

Abstract

Teacher education programmes play a prominent role when the quality of education is the main concern of the country. Among the long list of programmes focusing on preparing elementary teachers, Bachelors of Elementary Education programme is one of the programmes that gives immense spotlight on preparing reflective teachers who can think about their classroom practices regularly. Mathematics is treated as a subject that is very abstract in nature and demands extra efforts from the teachers’ side. The paper aims to study and analyse teachers’ reflections about their mathematics class. It is a qualitative study mainly aimed to study the role of reflections in the future classroom implications. Fourteen prospective teachers were selected to take part in the study who shared their reflective journals along with the observations of their classes. The result of the study showed that teachers’ reflected upon the nature of activity, the teaching learning material and their students’ responses when mathematics was planned and taught.