A teacher’s learning to implement cognitively high-level tasks to facilitate student thinking through coaching program

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Aytekin Kazanç, Emine

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In the present study, one of the purposes was to investigate an in-service teacher's (Aysu) knowledge of the cognitive demand of mathematical tasks in the algebra domain, particularly in the notion of slope, by engaging her in a mathematics coaching program. The second purpose was to examine the changes in the teacher's noticing skills and how her noticing skills progressed through the coaching stages, including planning, enacting, and review. Accordingly, coaching as a professional development model was designed by adopting a teaching experiment methodology. This study is conducted with an 8th-grade mathematics teacher and her students in a classroom environment in a public middle school. Different sources are utilized as data collection tools, such as the classroom sessions, teacher's pre- and post-observation interviews of coaching cycles, design team meetings, students' works, and coach's field notes as audio or video recordings. Data were analyzed by using qualitative methods. The findings revealed development in an in-service teacher's both knowledge of the levels of cognitive demand of tasks and her noticing of students' mathematical thinking throughout the coaching process. It was implied that core features of the coaching program within the teaching experiment which were collaboration, focus on specific content, cyclic process, and research-based materials, had an impact on the teacher's progress in her practices. In that respect, the study has insightful practical and theoretical implications for mathematics teacher educators, policymakers, and scholars in the mathematics education field.

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Teacher Noticing, Coaching, Slope, Students’ Algebraic Thinking, An In-Service Mathematics Teacher

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E. Aytekin Kazanç, “A teacher’s learning to implement cognitively high-level tasks to facilitate student thinking through coaching program,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2022.