Dawn M. Woods

Episode 20: Learning to Launch Complex Tasks: How Instructional Visions Influence the Exploration of the Practice

September 11th, 2020  |  Season 5  |  25 mins 53 secs

instructional vision; practice-based teacher education; teacher learning cycle; launch; complex tasks

This study investigates how the exploration phase of the teacher learning cycle provides 11 novice mathematics teachers with the opportunity to learn about the high-leverage practice of launching a complex task. Findings suggest that the exploration phase of the teacher learning cycle provides novice teachers with opportunities to reflect on how
to launch a complex task within the context of their own instructional practice. Because of this opportunity to deeply consider the pedagogical resource and reflect on it, novice teachers’ instructional visions were a filter through which they interpreted key instructional strategies offered up during the exploration phase of the teacher learning cycle. Further, the authors discuss three key takeaways for teacher educators who are attempting to implement the teacher learning cycle into their teacher education coursework