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Introduction
Quote from a paper: "Mathematics educational researchers can and should be more loyal to the interpretivist stance, and, perhaps, by including teachers voices as valid ‘teacher change’ data, we might find more positive results of teachers implementing the practices described in curriculum documents. When focusing on teachers’ voices in our research, we may yet find that teachers’ beliefs and practices have in fact shifted." See: BELIEVING WHAT WE PRACTICE: DOES SELF-ASSESSMENT COUNT?
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August 2013 - December 2015
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- Professor (Assistant)
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- Mathematics Education - retired
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Assessment tools—a rubric, exit slips—inform instruction, clarify expectations, and support learning.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279559942_True_to_Myself_Transforming_secondary_mathematics_teachers_beliefs_and_practices
Given the minimal impact in the classroom from the implementation of reform movements internationally, the question remains how researchers and teacher educators can address the learning needs of secondary mathematic...
In this article, the author explores the link between citizens’ quantitative literacy abilities and their financial prosperity. The author applies a robust social justice research vision and a Freirean approach to describe personal flourishing within the context of numerical, mathematical, and financial literacy (NMFL) education. Four families part...
This article describes how students were able to model an authentic contextual task that was designed to introduce quadratic functions. Essential factors for success are discussed, such as establishing productive classroom norms, developing effective habits of mind, and taking the necessary classroom time for student sense-making.
[The author wou...
Though this is an implementation story, it is also a case of
practicizing. “As teachers, we practicize when we theorize about
our teaching and the effect that it has on learning and the learner”
(British Columbia Association of Mathematics Teachers, 2011). I have
been a mathematics educator in British Columbia for almost 25 years,
and my colleague,...
These are the notes I developed to teach Transformations of Functions in Grade 12.
These are my HighSchool Math teaching notes for Conic Section for students to use in groups - discovery method. It is very visual, hands-on, minds-on. For more information, please see the first page of the document.
This paper addresses the intended shift in the continuum from what can be described as a traditional mathematics teaching practice to a more liberal or progressive mode, and argues that assessment practice must also shift from a deficit perspective on student knowledge and understanding to one that is based on students’ abilities and competencies....
Community service-learning seeks to develop social responsibility and engage pre-service teachers as active citizens in democratic life. This article discusses the journey of one undergraduate pre-service teacher as she negotiated her way through a community service-learning capstone project to complete her Bachelor of Education for teaching Elemen...
As a curriculum specialist and consultant in my school district for mathematics education and equitable assessment practices, I had trained extensively in both of these fields. During the latter part of my work as a consultant, I had also been reading for my dissertation. I began to see myself as a critical theorist and felt I now understood more d...
This document is a teacher resource on how to use hands-on manipulatives to address the developmental needs of students who are learning to use grade-specific Mental Math Strategies
The teaching and learning of mathematics in British Columbia has a long and storied history. An integral part of the past 50 years (1962-2012) of this history has been Vector: Journal of the British Columbia Association of Mathematics Teachers. This volume, which presents ten memorable articles from each of the past five decades, that is, 50 articl...
There is a strong link between citizens' quantitative literacy abilities and their financial prosperity. This study applied a social justice perspective to describe families' personal flourishing within the context of numerical, mathematical, and financial literacy (NMFL) education. Four families participated in a weekly community program with math...
The constructivist research perspective (which adopts an interpretive stance) implies that meaning is co-constructed by the actors. In educational research, it is often argued that teachers’ self-reporting on their practices is less valid than an observer’s (researcher’s) point of view. In this paper, I first argue that the practitioner’s own inter...
The implementation of new curriculum standards, such as the Common Core Standards (CCS) in Mathematics has its challenges. The added implications of new testing programs that aim to assess students' understanding of these Standards have been shown to have significant impacts on teachers' classroom practices, and, subsequently, on the learning exper...
Image from Poster Presentation: Designing mathematical tasks for student-centered learning in high school
The implementation of the Common Core Standards (CCS) and the added implications eir students. A meta-synthesis of research studies (Au, 2007) showed that the effects of high-stakes testing most often included a narrowing of curricular content as well as a fragmentation of content, and resulted in teachers choosing to teach using a transmissive pra...
Quantitative literacy, defined here as numerical, mathematical and financial literacies
(NMFLs) are pressing economic, social and cultural challenges. There is a strong link
between citizens’ basic numerical or mathematical abilities and their financial
prosperity and civic engagement. It is becoming evident that quantitative literacy is
increasing...
Considers the following questions: 1) What does it mean to understand? 2) What does it mean to understand multiplicative concepts? 3) How does multiplicative thinking evolve through schooling given the particular strategies taught within our schooling systems? 4) What are the particular difficulties or misunderstandings experienced by students duri...
This paper describes the design philosophy and structure of a free online PreCalculus course containing nine units with lessons and assessments. The purpose for developing the resource was to support students and teachers. This paper describes the curriculum design framework that aimed to harness the capabilities of the Internet to create a hands-o...
INTRODUCTION
This paper addresses the portion of my dissertation that describes how I worked with practicing teachers to examine and challenge their beliefs and practices, and how our critical action research experience helped to support the participating teachers in their quest for a productive change in their practice. This collaborative research...
Research indicates that reform efforts in mathematics education have had little impact in the classroom. The purpose of this study was to develop a critical process that would be effective for secondary mathematics teachers’ professional learning. This critical action research study was designed to assess a process that included three phases of emp...
Research indicates that reform efforts in mathematics education have had little impact in the classroom. The purpose of this study was to develop a critical process that would be effective for secondary mathematics teachers' professional learning. This critical action research study was designed to assess a process that included three phases of emp...
The following problems or challenges for teacher educators were posed:
• “After Teacher Candidates leave us,” why don’t they (some of them) maintain their philosophical
stance/ personal epistemology, and practice “what we taught them”?
• How does our practice, as teacher educators, impact teacher candidates' ability to maintain a self-awareness and...
This research examines teachers' concerns regarding child
abuse prevention education and staff training for child abuse
prevention. The purpose of gathering the concerns of teachers is
to provide the possibility for staff developers and trainers to
structure future in-service training programs for child sexual
abuse prevention around teachers' conc...
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Are teachers interested in learning Tinkerplots? Do they believe their students can interface with the software easily enough, or is the learning curve too steep for Tinkerplots to be implemented extensively in classrooms? That has always been my concern. I hope you find a way so that everyone can see how beautiful and useful it can be, and how beneficial it can be for students to make sense of and represent in a personalized way their data. Cheers and keep us posted!
Lorraine
