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Title: Using gallery walks for compare and connect: Developing adaptive expertise of mathematics language routines
We examined teachers’ development of adaptive expertise of mathematics language routines (MLRs) as they engaged in Studio Day professional learning focused on the MLR Compare and Connect. We collected video data from pre- and post-Studio Day meetings, as well as debriefs and their lesson enactments. We analyzed the data using three dimensions of adaptive expertise: flexibility, deeper level of understanding, and deliberate practice. We share a case study of a teacher exhibiting dimensions of adaptive expertise during the Studio Day Cycle through the use of a gallery walk. The teacher’s enactment of the MLR Compare and Connect provides an image of a teacher’s adaptive expertise of this MLR and helps us understand these MLRs and how teachers use and make sense of them in their instruction.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2144027
PAR ID:
10579617
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Corporate Creator(s):
Editor(s):
Kosko, K W; Caniglia, J; Courtney, S A; Zolfaghari, M; Morris, G A
Publisher / Repository:
Proceedings of the forty-sixth annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education
Date Published:
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1392-1398
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
Professional development equity, inclusion, and diversity
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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