Teacher Learning in Mathematics: Using Student Work to Promote Collective Inquiry |
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| Authors: | Elham Kazemi Megan Loef Franke |
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| Institution: | (1) University of Washington, College of Education, Box 353600, 122 Miller, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.;(2) University of Calfornia, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, U.S.A |
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| Abstract: | The study describes teachers' collective work in which they developed deeper understanding of their own students' mathematical thinking. Teachers at one school met in monthly workgroups throughout the year. Prior to each workgroup, they posed a similar mathematical problem to their students. The workgroup discussions centered on the student work those problems generated. This study draws on a transformation of participation perspective to address the questions: What do teachers learn through collective examination of student work? How is teacher learning evident in shifts in participation in discussions centered on student work? The analyses account for the learning of the group by documenting key shifts in teachers' participation across the year. The first shift in participation occurred when teachers as a group learned to attend to the details of children's thinking. A second shift in participation occurred as teachers began to develop possible instructional trajectories in mathematics. We focus our discussion on the significance of the use of student work and a transformation of participation view in analyzing the learning trajectory of teachers as a group. |
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| Keywords: | children's mathematical thinking professional development school-wide inquiry sociocultural theory student work teacher learning |
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