Learning to Focus on Students: Changes in University Teachers’ Visual Attention Due to Pedagogical Training (Poster 5)

• In Event: Sunday Poster Session 3:05 pm
  In Poster Session: Perspectives on Learning and Development: Exploring Motivations, Cognition, and Contextual Factors

Abstract

Universities promote their teachers' pedagogical skills to develop towards more learning-focused teaching. In this study, we examined how teachers’ with previous pedagogical training gaze, or those without training and participating in a short training learn to gaze at students when watching a teaching situation video. The results of the eye-movement study results combined with think-aloud and other verbal data showed that teachers with previous training and with learning-facilitating teaching conceptions focused more on students and those participating in short training learnt to gaze more on students, especially in situations where students needed teacher intervention. The untrained teachers also reported noticing remarkable changes in their own thinking of teaching.

Authors

• Mari S. Murtonen, UTUPEDA Centre for University Pedagogy and Research

• Henna Vilppu, University of Turku