Ethan Smith

@mathissippi.bsky.social

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Assistant prof of math ed @ WSU Tri-Cities. Former math teacher/coach. Focus on professional vision: teachers' noticing of math writing, alignment of teacher and coach perceptions of shared work, PST emerging conceptions of equitable teaching #MTBoS

Flowchart of the coding processes for this study.
The abstract of the article, Discursive Drift in the Enactment of Small Group Elementary Mathematical Writing Tasks
Building on literature regarding student engagement and motivation in mathematics (Middleton et al., 2017), we ultimately wrote 15 observation rubrics. Eight of these focused on academic support to investigate (1) students’ opportunities for sense making and reasoning, (2) connections between representations or strategies, (3) pressing students to explain, (4) contexts of tasks, (5) mathematical correctness, (6) mathematics language use, (7) feedback, and (8) students’ opportunities for agency and autonomy. Also building on literature, we wrote seven social support rubrics intended to investigate (9) whole class discourse, (10) small group discourse, (11) status raising, (12) motivational discourse, (13) enthusiasm about mathematics, (14) attention to students’ lives, and (15) account ability and high expectations. We acknowledge that social support and academic support are often blended in some of these teaching practices.
A screen capture of text from the referenced journal article.
Figure describing eight steps that the SMiLES research team took for establishing evidence of validity for the PEMTP