6. Connecting the preparation program with student teachers’ TPCK development
Preparing student teachers to teach with technology in science and mathematics content areas offers a unique lens from which to investigate the development of TPCK. The content knowledge of technology is both scientific and mathematical. Teaching with technology using demonstrations and labs/hands-on activities is consistent with major pedagogical strategies employed in teaching mathematics and science. Classroom management issues with technology are consistent with classroom management issues in science and mathematics lab activities. Thus, the addition of preparing teachers to teach with technology is consistent with many of the programmatic experiences designed for the development of PCK. ARTICLE IN PRESS M.L. Niess / Teaching and Teacher Education 21 (2005) 509–523 519 Amending Grossman’s (1989, 1990) central components of PCK provides the framework to view the student teachers’ development of TPCK.