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54.044 - Exploring Varied Approaches to Supporting Responsive Teaching in Science and Mathematics

Sun, April 30, 12:25 to 1:55pm, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 221 D

Session Type: Structured Poster Session

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Responsive teaching – making sense of the substance and productivity of students’ ideas about disciplinary phenomena and responding in ways that take up these ideas – is a hallmark of effective instruction that supports deep, equitable disciplinary learning and engagement. However, focusing on students’ ideas while teaching can be challenging. Teacher education and professional development efforts have taken varied approaches to support teachers in noticing, interpreting, and responding to the substance of students’ ideas. This interactive structured poster session brings eleven approaches into conversation with one another, allowing participants to get a sense for the breadth of approaches, synthesize key commonalities and distinctions across them, and unpack underlying assumptions about the nature of responsive teaching and teacher learning.

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