"Using Video to Develop Preservice Teachers' Vision of Ambitious Pedagogy"

Associate Professor Elizabeth van Es and PhD alumnae Mary Cashen, Tara Barnhart, and Anamarie Auger publish in Cognition and Instruction.

van Es, E. A., Cashen, M., Barnhart, T., & Auger, A. (May 2017). Learning to notice mathematics instruction: Using video to develop preservice teachers' vision of ambitious pedagogy. Cognition and Instruction. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07370008.2017.1317125

Abstract

​Video is used extensively in teacher preparation, raising questions about what and how preservice teachers learn through video observation and analysis. We investigate the development of candidates' noticing of ambitious mathematics pedagogy in the context of a video-based course designed to cultivate ways of seeing and interpreting classroom interactions. Qualitative analysis of candidates' observations of teaching at the beginning and end of the course generated a framework of practices and associated approaches for noticing instructional interactions. The three practices include attending to features of instruction, elaborating on observations, and integrating observations to reason about instruction. Findings reveal that variations in candidates' noticing was tied to their attention to the details of the features of ambitious pedagogy and to the extent to which they integrated observations to examine the relation between student thinking, teaching practice, and mathematical content.