"Using Video to Collaborate Around Problems of Practice"
Assistant Professor Elizabeth van Es has a manuscript accepted for publication in Teacher Education Quarterly: "Using Video to Collaborate Around Problems of Practice."
Abstract
Video clubs bring teachers together to view and discuss video segments from one another’s classrooms. The goal of the video club discussed herein was to help teachers learn to analyze students’ mathematical thinking. Analysis reveals that the teachers brought an additional issue to the video club, namely discussing the implementation of a reform-based mathematics curriculum. This study examines how the video club context enabled teachers to collaborate around problems of practice, with the teachers adopting strategies for analyzing student thinking to inform their analysis of curriculum enactment and pedagogical practices and the facilitator drawing on teachers’ classroom instruction to accomplish the goals of the video club. This study begins to examine the coevolution (Kazemi & Hubbard, 2008) of teacher learning as teachers bring experiences from their teaching to the professional development setting for analysis and reflection.
van Es, E. A. (accepted). Using video to collaborate around problems of practice. Teacher Education Quarterly.
Dr. van Es's research interests include teacher cognition, professional development, and teacher learning communities.
