Fünf evidenzbasierte Heuristiken für den Einsatz von Video in der universitären Lehrerausbildung

This article provides a research synthesis on the use of video in pre-service teacher education. Common ideas and evidences concerning the use of video in pre-service teacher education are reviewed. Based on the state-of-the-art in using video, five research-based heuristics are derived. Research findings of a number of studies are further used to illustrate the specification of heuristics. Specifically, a set of rules of thumb about when, how, and why to use video is presented to clarify the strengths and limitations of video as a medium to support pre-service teacher learning. (DIPF/Orig.)Der Beitrag liefert eine Forschungssynthese zur Nutzung von Video in der universitären Lehrerausbildung. Die Forschung wird dahingehend zusammengefasst, welche Ideen derzeit verfolgt werden und welche Evidenzen zur Nutzung von Video vorliegen. Basierend auf dem Forschungsstand leiten die Autoren fünf forschungsbasierte Heuristiken zum Einsatz von Video ab. Die Forschungsergebnisse einer Reihe ausgewählter Studien werden genutzt, um die Heuristiken weiter zu spezifizieren. Es werden Erfahrungsregeln vorgestellt, wann, wie und warum Video in der universitären Lehrerbildung eingesetzt werden kann. Die Erfahrungsregeln sollen helfen, Stärken und Schwächen von Video als ein Medium zur Unterstützung des Lernens von Lehramtsstudierenden zu klären. (DIPF/Orig.

Sustaining at Scale: District Mathematics Specialists’ Adaptations to a Teacher Leadership Preparation Program

A common approach to scaling up a professional development program is for the researchers who designed the program to prepare teacher leaders to facilitate it at their schools. When researchers eventually leave, however, teacher leaders may receive less support. To ensure that teacher leaders continue receiving support, researchers can prepare district mathematics specialists to assume responsibility for preparing the teacher leaders. Little is known, however, about district mathematics specialists’ role in sustaining, and potentially adapting, professional development programs. We examined district mathematics specialists’ facilitation of an adaptive teacher leadership preparation program. Program sessions were originally facilitated by researchers then by the specialists. We analyzed the adaptations specialists made to the sessions over four years and the rationales underlying these adaptations. Specialists maintained the program’s overall structure, continuing to model the facilitation of core program activities that teacher leaders would then facilitate in their site-based professional development workshops. However, they modified the thematic focus of these activities to address district goals, interests, and priorities. Adaptations were informed by specialists’ intimate knowledge of what was occurring in district schools. This approach maintained activities supportive of teacher learning, but also demonstrated that the specialists took increasing ownership over the program by adapting it

Co-Teaching Mathematics in an Inclusive Classroom: Challenges for Collaboration of a Primary and a Special Education Teacher

Jütte H, Lüken M. Co-Teaching Mathematics in an Inclusive Classroom: Challenges for Collaboration of a Primary and a Special Education Teacher. In: Borko H, Potari D, eds. Teachers of Mathematics Working and Learning in Collaborative Groups. ICMI STUDY 25 Conference Proceedings. Berlin: International Mathematical Union ; 2020: 476-483.The development of roles in a newly formed collaboration between a primary teacher and a special education teacher who co-teach mathematics in an inclusive classroom is subject of this paper. With different professional backgrounds but same personal attitudes and orientations towards collaboration as well as teaching children with and without special needs in one classroom, the conditions for a successful and harmonious collaboration seemed set. However, lesson observations and individual interviews showed the contrary. By comparative case descriptions along various categories we were able to reconstruct factors which influenced the uptake of flexible roles and hindered this specific collaboration, e.g. no set planning time, missing school administrative support, inability for openly exchanging mutual ideas and expectations. With our focus on mathematics lessons, a new factor which negatively affected the collaboration was identified: the missing mathematics education expertise in the team

Teachers’ Engagement with Student Mathematical Agency and Authority in School-Based Professional Learning

Professional learning can support teachers in developing their understanding of how to position students as agentic and authoritative – a rarity in most classrooms. We analyzed teachers’ discourse during professional development focused on agency and authority in middle school mathematics classrooms. We found that teachers frequently engaged with ideas related to student agency and authority. Though less common, episodes in which teachers constructed new ideas and critiqued existing ones indicate that using activity prompts, practicing responsive facilitation, normalizing critical stances, and positioning frameworks as tentative are important for supporting deeper engagement with ideas related to student agency and authority