Student Accusations and Conventions: Understanding How Students Respond to Changes in Common Classroom Activities

• In Event: 47.095 - MTCC Roundtable Session 19
  In Roundtable Session: 47.095-12 - Facilitating Mathematics Discourse: Classroom Conventions and Teacher Tensions

Abstract

Teachers and students are often operating under different assumptions of the conventions surrounding classroom practices. Analyzing student protests to ways of engaging in the common classroom practice of presenting at the board conventions held by the students were uncovered. This study helps illuminate how students my experience teachers bids to change classroom practices.

Authors

• Darrius D Robinson, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

• Charles Wilkes, University of Michigan

• Deborah Loewenberg Ball, University of Michigan