A Preservice Teacher's (PST's) Remote Rehearsals of Mathematical Language Routines to Engage Multilingual Learners

• In Event: Learning to Teach Mathematics: Assessment, Perception, and Equity in Preservice Teacher Education

Abstract

This study considers a preservice teacher’s enacted rehearsals of mathematics language routines in a remote teaching environment with attention to multilingual learners. We draw on ambitious mathematics teaching, with a focus on multilingual learners in a remote teaching environment. We qualitatively analyzed four rehearsals of mathematics language routines from different remote teaching platforms. We found a challenge in allowing students to collaborate with one another or to communicate verbally. Additionally, students needed scaffolding and modeling initially when learning the routines, as with any classroom routine. Instruction is quickly shifting during our current pandemic, and it is crucial that we consider our most vulnerable students and providing teachers, particularly PSTs with guidance on how to meet these students’ needs.

Authors

• Sarah Ann Roberts, University of California - Santa Barbara

• Royce Olarte, University of California - Santa Barbara

• Julie Bianchini, University of California - Santa Barbara