Identidad: Understanding Teachers' Identity as a Mediational Tool for Promoting Latina/o Students' Mathematical Agency

• In Event: 32.083 - Roundtable Session 12
  In Roundtable Session: 32.083-12 - Teacher Characteristics: Identity and Experience

Abstract

It has become common today to discuss the changing student demographics within the public educational system. Due to these changing demographics, it is important for teachers to relate to the educational needs of Latina/o English Learner (EL) students’ and their identity-shaping experiences. This also implicates understanding the identities that teachers develop as learners and how their own socializing experiences can inform their practice. This paper examines how one Latina mathematics teacher uses her mathematical, EL and racial identities as a mediational tool in her 6th grade classroom.

Author

• Joanna Maravilla-Cano, University of Illinois at Chicago