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Publication Date: 2019-Dec
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Investigating and Promoting Teachers' Expertise for Language-Responsive Mathematics Teaching
Mathematics Education Research Journal, v31 n4 p367-392 Dec 2019
In spite of the widely accepted need for language-responsive subject-matter teaching, few teachers are prepared for this challenge due to the lack of empirically founded subject-specific professional development (PD) programs for language-responsive classrooms. The design research study presented in this article pursues the dual aim of (a) promoting teachers' expertise in language-responsive mathematics teaching using PD courses and (b) investigating teachers' developing expertise in qualitative case studies. Both aims are pursued based on a conceptual framework for teacher expertise in language-responsive mathematics teaching, starting from typical situational demands that teachers face in language-responsive mathematics teaching and the orientations, categories, and pedagogical tools they need to cope with these situational demands, especially the demand to identify mathematically relevant language demands. For language-responsive teaching, the interplay of categories for mathematical goals and language goals turns out to be of high relevance.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Teacher Competencies, Language Usage, Expertise
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