Designing asynchronous video-based professional development for mathematics teacher educators

Abstract

International audienceThe Video in the Middle (VIM) project is creating forty two-hour video-based professional development modules that can be combined in a variety of ways to form personalized pathways that meet the unique needs of a wide range of professional learning settings and contexts. The VIM asynchronous modules are designed to be used in three flexible facilitation formats: locally facilitated, expert facilitated, or independent/non-facilitated. VIM modules aim to support teacher noticing of student thinking and increase their mathematical knowledge for teaching linear functions. Preliminary research results indicate that teachers appreciated the variety of facilitation formats, found the online modules useful and engaging, and noticed, compared, and analyzed a variety of visual and numeric methods for solving linear function problems