Event Description
Valerie Klein, PhD
, Assistant Clinical Professor of
Education and
Wesley
Shumar, PhD
,
Professor of Communication, Culture & Media, will lead our next Pedagogical
Happy Hour.
"Supporting Reflection Focused on Student-Centered
Teaching: Lessons Learned from K-12"
This talk draws
on data from the Emerging Communities for Mathematical Practice and Assessment
(EnCoMPASS) Project. At the core of the work in the recent NSF project is the
EnCoMPASS software environment, an environment supporting teachers to reflect
deeply on student work and scaffold student-centered teaching. We claim that
the work in the project addresses a core dilemma faced my teachers of
mathematics, the tension between the need to be results oriented and at the
same time, knowing that mathematics is a difficult discourse to learn that
requires students and teachers to enter into dialogue co-constructing
knowledge. Results suggest that the combination of the assessment software with
online support can help teachers past this dilemma.
Dr. Klein's
research interests include teachers’ use of formative assessment in
mathematics, creating opportunities for rich problem solving in the classroom,
and qualitative research methods. Dr. Shumar's research focuses on higher
education, ethnographic evaluation in education, entrepreneurship education,
virtual community, the semiotics of mass culture, and the self in relation to
contemporary personal and political issues of identity and globalization. Dr.
Klein and Dr. Shumar have worked together on several professional papers
including their most recent manuscript, "An online professional
development model to support teacher's ability to examine student work and
thinking."
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