Mathematics Teacher Noticing: Seeing through Teachers' Eyes

by Sherin; Miriam

• ISBN13: 9780415878630
• ISBN10: 0415878632
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-12-20
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

In everyday language, noticing is a term used to indicate the act of observing or recognizing something, and people engage in this activity regularly as they navigate a visually complex world. Recently, however, there has been a groundswell of interest by researchers in the particular type of noticing done by teachers---how teachers pay attention to and make sense of what happens in the complexity of instructional situations. This is the first book to examine research on mathematics teacher noticing. In the midst of all that is happening in a classroom, where do mathematics teachers look, what do they see, and what sense do they make of it?Mathematics Teacher Noticing explores issues related to teacher noticing in four main sections. The first introductory section provides an overview of the construct of noticing and how it is addressed in each of the chapters. The second section focuses on the historical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives on teacher noticing. The third section focuses on studies of mathematics teacher noticing in the context of teaching and learning. The concluding section highlights the consequential nature of noticing and suggests links to other constructs integral to teaching. This groundbreaking collection represents a major advance in the study of mathematics teacher noticing and showcases a range of methodologies for further study. By collecting the work of leaders in the field of noticing in one volume, the authors present the current state of research and provide ideas for how future work could further the field.