Investigating Preservice Teacher Moves for Supporting Student Reasoning by Means of a Scriptwriting Task

• In Event: Seeing Language in the Math Classroom: Attending to Student Talk, Questions, Argumentation, and Reasoning

Abstract

The development of mathematical reasoning skills has become of increasing focus in research regarding the teaching and learning of mathematics. This research utilizes a simulation-based learning research tool called the scriptwriting task, in which pre-service teachers completed a dialogue/script of a classroom simulation, to investigate how pre-service teachers assist students work through difficulties and help them in justifying their reasoning. This simulation provides an examination of pre-service teacher moves to support student reasoning that the pre-service teachers utilize in their scripts by considering their imagined actions and choice of words to assist students. Scripts from forty-one pre-service teachers were examined and five clusters based on the employed teacher moves for supporting student reasoning were formed with implications for teacher education.

Author

• Victoria Shure, Humboldt University - Berlin