Definition of Mathematics Teacher Noticing
Noticing is a term used in everyday language to indicate the act of observing or recognizing something, and people engage in this activity regularly while they navigate a perceptually complex world. At the same time, individual professions have strategic ways of noticing, and understanding and promoting productive noticing by mathematics teachers have become a rapidly increasing areas of inquiry among researchers. (For compilations, see Schack et al. 2017 and Sherin et al. 2011.)
Mathematics teacher noticing as a construct identifies an instructional practice in which teachers interact with a situation. The field currently embraces a range of conceptualizations of this practice, but many researchers use as their foundation Goodwin’s (1994) ideas about professional vision, Mason’s (2002) discipline of noticing, and research on expertise. Current conceptualizations of the practice of teacher noticing are generally associated with two components...
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Jacobs, V.R., Philipp, R.A., Sherin, M.G. (2020). Noticing of Mathematics Teachers. In: Lerman, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15789-0_120
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