Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Teachers need to pay attention (Lit?)
How do we define attention? A definition in Strickland but not enough. What about attention to student ideas? What does that look like?

Teacher’s attention is influenced by the knldg and the blfs the teacher has (lit?)
The literature says the nature of these blfs and knldg and their influence on teacher’s practice is as such: (lit)

But context has an influence on attention.
How have we talked about context in blfs and knldg? Macro mostly, unitary. Speer’s work is more micro. Talk about interactive decision making here and Schoenfeld. More work needs to be done at the micro level.

The ways to think about how context influences teacher attention
School culture level (Lampert)
Activity : Chazan and Schnepp—time of year.
Herbst; Rop—type of activity

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