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Noticing and Responding to Student Thinking for Equity

Sat, April 13, 9:35 to 11:05am, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 112A

Session Type: Symposium

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Responsive teaching centers noticing and responding to student thinking. We question if and how this vision of instruction can advance an equity agenda. The intersection of responsive and equitable teaching is explored in research on students’ epistemic agency, noticing student thinking and positioning, and ways of disrupting deficit perspectives of students’ participation and their opportunities to learn. Bringing an equity perspective to responsive teaching raises questions about whose ideas are given space in classroom discourse; how teachers shift attention away from dominant forms of thinking to elevate culturally diverse forms of knowledge; and how we theorize the social arrangements of classrooms that center equity in disciplinary rich discourse. This session takes up these questions from multiple theoretical perspectives.

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