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Publication Date: 2012-Nov
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Honoring Teacher's Identity: A Journey towards Non-Evaluative Listening
Cox, Dana C.; Naresh, Nirmala; D'Ambrosio, Beatriz S.; Keiser, Jane M.
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (34th, Kalamazoo, MI, Nov 1-4, 2012)
An evaluation of the impact of a professional development experience on participants' ability to explore student voices as input for improving the teaching of mathematics evolved into a self-study of our growth as non-evaluative listeners. This paper specifically describes our emergent awareness of the evaluative stance implicit within our attempt to examine teachers' writing samples with the goal of developing a framework, denying teachers agency and identity. This presented us with a living contradiction since this stance conflicted with our belief that learners deserve both. [For the complete proceedings, see ED584829.]
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Student Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction, Independent Study, Professional Identity, Writing (Composition), Professional Autonomy, Instructional Improvement, Listening Skills, Teacher Student Relationship, Mathematics Teachers, Teaching Methods, Postmodernism, Educational Change, Student Centered Learning
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. e-mail: pmena.steeringcommittee@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.pmena.org/
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Language: English
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