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Abidin, Zaenal; Mathrani, Anuradha; Hunter, Roberta – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2021
Online learning communities (OLCs) offer opportunities to help teachers engage better with technology and develop new skills through a participatory social process. This study investigates the potential of an OLC for advancing teachers' professional learning in integrating technology into their instructional practices. Drawing on two case studies…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Electronic Learning, Communities of Practice, Skill Development
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Fitzgerald, Louise; Hunter, Jodie; Hunter, Roberta – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2021
Both in New Zealand and internationally, there has been a focus on the use of differentiation in mathematics instruction to raise achievement levels and provide equitable outcomes. New Zealand has a long history of the use of ability grouping to provide differentiation. Recently, this practice has been challenged in a large scale professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individualized Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Ability Grouping
Restani, Rachel; Hunter, Jodie; Hunter, Roberta – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2019
In many Western countries, there has been an emphasis on ways in which to support teachers to shift practice from traditional mathematics instruction to inquiry-based classrooms. As a form of professional learning and development, lesson study offers the potential for teachers to develop their ability to respond to students' thinking through…
Descriptors: Facilitators (Individuals), Mathematics Instruction, Inquiry, Teaching Methods
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Anthony, Glenda; Hunter, Roberta; Hunter, Jodie – Professional Development in Education, 2018
Teachers' perceptions of students' capabilities are particularly important in efforts to support ambitious instructional reforms. In this paper, we explore one teacher's efforts to resolve conflicts and tensions as she engages with new practices associated with ambitious mathematics teaching. While many conflicts arose in the first year of the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Change, Conflict Resolution, Mathematics Instruction
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Anthony, Glenda; Hunter, Jodie; Hunter, Roberta – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2015
In recent years there have been calls for ambitious mathematics teaching which places student thinking and reasoning at the centre of instruction. Drawing on a larger study concerning implementation of practice-based pedagogies within our initial teacher education mathematics programme, this paper examines the range of opportunities for…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods
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Hunter, Roberta – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2012
This paper adds to a discussion initiated by Askew (2007) about two contrasting views of scaffolding; as a "tool for results" and a "tool-and-result". The wider study the article is drawn from took place in four primary classrooms with Pasifika students within a low socioeconomic setting. Two classroom episodes drawn from one…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Foreign Countries