Dianne’s overarching conception of teaching
mathematics with technology was that technology
was integral to mathematics and thus to learning
mathematics. She looked for ways to incorporate
technology as she planned her instructional
strategies. With this desire to incorporate technology,
she taught her technology sequence early in
the fulltime student teaching. This timing became a
problem for her because her knowledge of the
students was limited and she had not yet developed
a classroom environment that assured all students
were actively engaged in the lessons. While she
made continued improvement over the student
teaching experience, she had to focus on lessening
the amount of teacher talk and incorporating
more student exploration of the ideas through
active hands-on experiences. By the end of the
student teaching experience, she had been able to
engage her students as active learners of mathematics.