PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2018
San Diego, California
What are Conveyed Meanings from a Teacher to Students?
Page: 424
In this paper we provide a new lens to explain conceptual connections between what a teacher knows, what a teacher does in the classrooms, and what his or her students learn. We observed three teachers’ lessons and interviewed the three teachers and their students. By examining our data, we see that teachers’ meanings and their assumptions about what students already understand have an impact on the ways they expressed their meanings during instruction. Then, students developed their meanings in trying to understand what the teacher said and did. Our analyses suggest that teachers need to think about how students might understand their instructional actions so that they can convey what they intend to their students.