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53.055 - Reflections on Teachers as Learners: Selective Attention, In-the-Moment Decisions, Affect, and Culture

Sun, April 30, 10:35am to 12:05pm, Grand Hyatt San Antonio, Floor: Second Floor, Lone Star Ballroom Salon B

Session Type: Symposium

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This symposium involves reflections on four interconnected aspects of teacher learning: teacher selective attention, sense-making, affect, and cultural underpinnings. The four reported studies offer insights into teacher learning as a situated and cyclic process of attention, interpretation, decision, and action, punctuated and fueled by periods of reflection that have affective associations, and which is culturally embedded. The studies provide possible points of interventions for facilitating teacher learning, which include the objects to which teachers pay attention and attach meaning; teacher interpretation of classroom experiences; affective response during video-viewing; and the cultural orientations of professional development programs. In combination, the four presentations offer different approaches to the investigation of how teacher learning can be best promoted.

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