PME-NA

Categories of Instructional Messaging in Higher Education

• In Event: Discourse with Instructional Activities and Practices

Description

This study builds on five discursive categories identified by Knott et al. (2008) used by teachers in large class discussions: the big ideas, affective discourse, discursive tools, tactical tools, and ending discourse. In particular, we discuss altering three categories: technical tools, discursive moves, and bookend discourse. We provide our rationale and illustrate our alterations to their categorization scheme using data from higher education mathematics classes. Utilizing these categories helps highlight areas of strength and weakness in instructional communication and allows for cross-disciplinary comparison of instructor talk.

Authors

• Elisha Hall, Western Michigan University

• Tabitha Mingus, Western Michigan University