Interaction Geography Slicer as a Tool for Teacher Reflection

Welcome to a lecture aimed at researchers in education. Focus on methods for studying teacher learning.

Lecture with Ilana Seidel Horn, Vanderbilt University.

Abstract

Responsive instruction requires teachers to act while attending to multiple social and relational dimensions of classroom life. This poses a technical challenge when supporting teachers’ in making sense of these multiple dimensions because opportunities to reflect on instruction typically happen outside of instruction itself. Video and lesson artifacts help, to some extent, to prompt teacher thinking after the fact, but these tools provide only a partial view of teacher thinking. In this presentation, I offer a new technology, designed by my research team, which supports teachers’ reflection on their practices across multiple dimensions of space and time. This technology, called the Interaction Geography Slicer (IGS), provides a visualization which brings about a more embodied recollection than standard methods and a deeper, more nuanced account of teacher reflection practices.  

Hans Wallin lecture

Hans Wallin lectures are a recurring seminar series that aims to create communication and debate across subject boundaries and groupings, such as various research groups, teacher educators, student teachers, and practicing teachers and principals.

The lecture is a part of the Hans Wallin Lecture series. Find more lectures here.