Teacher groupwork monitoring routines and the nature of students' conversation in small groups

Nadav Ehrenfeld, Ilana Horn, Jessica Moses, Brette Garner

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Abstract

Our goal in this study is to explore students' mathematical participation in collaborative groupwork with relation to teachers' instruction. By doing so, we address two challenges for research of teaching and learning: (1) the under-conceptualization of the teacher role during students' groupwork; and (2) the need to explicate the connection between teaching and learning. We suggest that, to connect student learning to teacher monitoring practices, it is valuable to link two different scales of analysis: (1) between-groups teacher groupwork monitoring routines; and (2) within-groups interactions with and without the teacher. We argue that such methodology affords a generative discussion of teachers' instructional practices and their disruption or reproduction of exclusionary aspects of students' conversations. To illustrate our approach, we look at two teachers. First, we describe and compare their groupwork monitoring routines. Then, we look at students' conversations within those classrooms and discuss connections between these conversations and instruction.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences
Subtitle of host publicationThe Interdisciplinarity of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2020 - Conference Proceedings
EditorsMelissa Gresalfi, Ilana Seidel Horn
Pages1863-1870
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781732467286
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences: The Interdisciplinarity of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2020 - Nashville, United States
Duration: 19 Jun 202023 Jun 2020

Publication series

NameComputer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, CSCL
Volume4

Conference

Conference14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences: The Interdisciplinarity of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNashville
Period19/06/2023/06/20

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Education

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