Welcome to a lecture aimed at teachers/researchers at university level. Focus is on math education.
Lecture with Ilana Seidel Horn, Vanderbilt University.
Abstract
Decades of research has demonstrated that good mathematics teaching builds on children’s thinking to help them understand core disciplinary ideas and practices. Hundreds of books have been published advising teachers about how to approach instruction in this way, and yet, classrooms often fall short of these ideals. In this talk, I look at institutional, cultural, and conceptual obstacles to making high quality math teaching commonplace in classrooms, from an American perspective. After considering how each of these contribute to the preservation of the status quo, I offer a way of looking at these challenges as a problem of teacher learning. I conclude by offering principles for the design of professional learning activities that can support meaningful instructional change.
Hans Wallin lectures 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.
