A Taxonomy of Instructional Learning Opportunities in Teachers' Workgroup Conversations

Autor/inn/en	Horn, Ilana Seidel; Garner, Brette; Kane, Britnie Delinger; Brasel, Jason
Titel	A Taxonomy of Instructional Learning Opportunities in Teachers' Workgroup Conversations
Quelle	In: Journal of Teacher Education, 68 (2017) 1, S.41-54 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-4871
DOI	10.1177/0022487116676315
Schlagwörter	Teacher Collaboration; Discourse Analysis; Professional Development; Teaching Methods; Inservice Education; Mathematics Teachers; Middle School Teachers; Instructional Improvement; Urban Schools; School Districts; Communities of Practice; Mathematics Curriculum; Learning Activities; Interprofessional Relationship; Mathematics Education; Mathematics Instruction; Taxonomy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehrerkooperation; Diskursanalyse; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Berufsbegleitende Ausbildung; Mathematics; Teacher; Teachers; Mathematik; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Middle school; Middle schools; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Unterrichtsqualität; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; School district; Schulbezirk; Community; Lernaktivität; Mathematische Bildung; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Taxonomie
Abstract	Many school-improvement efforts include time for teacher collaboration, with the assumption that teachers' collective work supports instructional improvement. However, not all collaboration equally supports learning that would support improvement. As a part of a 5-year study in two urban school districts, we collected video records of more than 100 mathematics teacher workgroup meetings in 16 different middle schools, selected as "best cases" of teacher collaboration. Building off of earlier discursive analyses of teachers' collegial learning, we developed a taxonomy to describe how conversational processes differentially support teachers' professional learning. We used the taxonomy to code our corpus, with each category signaling different learning opportunities. In this article, we present the taxonomy, illustrate the categories, and report the overall dearth of meetings with rich learning opportunities, even in this purposively sampled data set. This taxonomy provides a coding scheme for other researchers, as well as a map for workgroup facilitators aiming to deepen collaborative conversations. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01