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Representations of Practice to Support Teacher Instruction: Video Case Mathematics Professional Development

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Mathematics Teachers Engaging with Representations of Practice

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What do teachers take up and use from mathematics professional development (PD) focused around video cases as representations of practice? In this chapter we explore what teachers took back to their classrooms based on a video case-based PD experience. Data gathered from focus group interviews and a set of reflection questions on teachers’ learning and uptake from the PD form the basis of the analysis for this chapter. Teachers were classified into four different user categories—Generative, Transformative, Incremental, or Non Users—based on how they carried their PD experiences into their mathematics classrooms. These classifications contribute to our understanding of how, what and why teachers take up information from PD programs, and that they do that in unique ways and to varying degrees .

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    The National Science Foundation supported both the Learning and Teaching Geometry Study (NSF Award#0732757) and the Learning and Teaching Geometry Efficacy Study (NSF Award#1503399).

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  1. Hunter College, New York, USA

    Karen Koellner

  2. WestED, San Francisco, USA

    Nanette Seago

  3. University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

    Jennifer Jacobs

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Koellner, K., Seago, N., Jacobs, J. (2018). Representations of Practice to Support Teacher Instruction: Video Case Mathematics Professional Development. In: Buchbinder, O., Kuntze, S. (eds) Mathematics Teachers Engaging with Representations of Practice. ICME-13 Monographs. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70594-1_2

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