Design professional development, curricular tools, and analytic frameworks to support productive recruitment of external conceptual resources¶

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Description¶

The authors argue there is practical value in analyzing how teachers recruit external conceptual resources: "understanding how teachers recruit these resources in their sensemaking can illuminate productive ways to design things like professional development, curricular tools, and analytic frameworks for teaching with the goal of supporting their productive use in schools and classrooms." They position this work as a step toward designing, facilitating, and analyzing mathematics teacher learning across contexts.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Attention to external conceptual resources in analysis of teacher conversations

Constraints¶

• Resources must be reconciled with local contexts; the article shows teachers weigh external practices against local institutional conditions such as tracking

Target Learners¶

• secondary mathematics teachers

Target Learning Goals¶

• productive use of external conceptual resources in collaborative sensemaking

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Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Ehrenfeld, N., McGugan, K. S., Marshall, S. A., & Garner, B. (2020). Reconciling local contexts and external conceptual resources in mathematics teachers' collaborative sensemaking. In Mathematics Education Across Cultures: Proceedings of the 42nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of PME-NA. doi:10.51272/pmena.42.2020-295