Professional Noticing: A Component of the Mathematics Teacher’s Professional Practice

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  • Salvador Llinares Universidad de Alicante

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25749/sis.3707

Palabras clave:

Professional practice, Professional noticing, Teaching expertise, Mathematics teaching, Teachers’ tasks in mathematics teaching

Resumen

In this paper, I characterize the notion of «teaching competency» as being able to use knowledge in a pertinent way to carry out mathematics teaching tasks. One aspect of teaching competency is the teacher’s «professional noticing» of students’ mathematical thinking. This feature of teacher competency involves the cognitive ability to identify and interpret the salient features of the students’ output in order to make informed decisions. This construct is illustrated using a context in which the prospective teachers are learning to interpret the students’ answers to linear and nonlinear problems (in order to recognize the students’ development of proportional reasoning). In this context, when prospective teachers use increasingly more explicit mathematics elements and features of the development of mathematical understanding to describe and interpret the students’ mathematical thinking is considered as evidence of the development of professional awareness.

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Salvador Llinares, Universidad de Alicante

Salvador Llinares is a professor in the Department of Innovation and Education of the University of Alicante (Spain). His current research interests are mathematics teaching practices and teacher education, with a special focus on teaching and learning and the students’ development of mathematics reasoning. In Spain, he was a member of the assessment committee of I+D+i research activities (2006-7) and the accreditation committee for university teachers (2008-9). He collaborated on the management of I+D+i research projects (2012-13) and is the (co)author of several books and articles in national and international journals.

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Publicado

2013-12-19

Número

Vol. 1 Núm. 3 (2013): Prácticas Profesionales y Desarrollo Profesional de Profesores de Matemáticas

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