Responsive Teaching in Science and Mathematics / Edition 1

by Amy D. Robertson, Rachel Scherr, David Hammer

Overview

Answering calls in recent reform documents to shape instruction in response to students’ ideas while integrating key concepts and scientific and/or mathematical practices, this text presents the concept of responsive teaching, synthesizes existing research, and examines implications for both research and teaching. Case studies across the curriculum from elementary school through adult education illustrate the variety of forms this approach to instruction and learning can take, what is common among them, and how teachers and students experience it. The cases include intellectual products of students’ work in responsive classrooms and address assessment methods and issues. Many of the cases are supplemented with online resources (http://www.studentsthinking.org/rtsm) including classroom video and extensive transcripts, providing readers with additional opportunities to immerse themselves in responsive classrooms and to see for themselves what these environments look and feel like.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138916999
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/13/2015
Series:	Teaching and Learning in Science Series
Pages:	234
Sales rank:	829,445
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Amy D. Robertson is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Seattle Pacific University, USA.

Rachel E. Scherr is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Physics at Seattle Pacific University, USA.

David Hammer is a Professor in the Departments of Education and Physics & Astronomy and the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts University, USA.

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: What is responsive teaching?

Amy D. Robertson, Leslie J. Atkins, Daniel M. Levin, and Jennifer Richards

Chapter 2: A review of the research on responsive teaching in science and mathematics

Jennifer Richards and Amy D. Robertson

Chapter 3: Examining the products of responsive inquiry

Leslie J. Atkins and Brian W. Frank

Chapter 4: Understanding responsive teaching and curriculum from the students’ perspective

Tiffany-Rose Sikorski

Chapter 5: Navigating the challenges of teaching responsively: An insider’s perspective

April Cordero Maskiewicz

Chapter 6: What teachers notice when they notice student thinking: Teacher-identified purposes for attending to students’ mathematical thinking

Adam A. Colestock and Miriam Gamoran Sherin

Chapter 7: The role subject matter plays in prospective teachers’ responsive teaching practices in elementary math and science

Janet E. Coffey and Ann R. Edwards

Chapter 8: Attending to students’ epistemic affect

Lama Z. Jaber

Chapter 9: Attention to student framing in responsive teaching

Jennifer Radoff and David Hammer

Chapter 10: Methods to assess teacher responsiveness in situ

Jennifer Evarts Lineback

Chapter 11: Documenting variability within teacher attention and responsiveness to the substance of student thinking

Amy D. Robertson, Jennifer Richards, Andrew Elby, and Janet Walkoe

Epilogue

David Hammer

List of Contributors