ERIC Number: ED630023
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Dec
Pages: 9
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Reconciling Local Contexts and External Conceptual Resources in Mathematics Teachers' Collaborative Sensemaking
Ehrenfeld, Nadav; Schneeberger McGugan, Katherine; Marshall, Samantha A.; Garner, Brette
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (42nd, Mazatlán, Mexico and Online, May 27-Jun 6, 2021)
Mathematics teachers develop understandings about instruction across multiple settings, such as classrooms, workshops, and professional learning communities. When teacher teams collaborate, their prior teaching and learning experiences meaningfully inform their sensemaking. However, current research does not explicitly link teacher conversations and these multiple settings for learning. In this study, we seek to understand secondary mathematics teachers' collaborative learning in schools as part of broader teacher learning ecologies. Using discourse analysis and a comparative case study design, we examine how two teacher teams' conversations recruit external conceptual resources to support the development of their collective pedagogical judgment. In particular, these external resources offered the teams rich representations of practice and productive framings of teaching problems. [For the complete proceedings, see ED629884.]
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development, Secondary School Teachers, Cooperative Learning, Discourse Analysis, Interpersonal Communication, Learning Theories, Problem Based Learning, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship, Labeling (of Persons)
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. e-mail: pmena.steeringcommittee@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.pmena.org/
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: DRL1620920; DGE1445197
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