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An Examination Of Administrators' Knowledge Of The Standards For Mathematical Practice - A Think Aloud, Vernita Glenn-White Jan 2015

An Examination Of Administrators' Knowledge Of The Standards For Mathematical Practice - A Think Aloud, Vernita Glenn-White

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Administrators who observe mathematics teachers need to have knowledge and an understanding of mathematics teaching and learning to effectively evaluate teachers and how their instructional practices relate to student thinking. This research study was conducted to illustrate the importance of understanding the thought process of administrators as they make decisions about teacher effectiveness based on what they notice during observations of mathematics classrooms. The purpose of this study was to examine what administrators attend to in the instructional environment and how what they notice influences their ability to identify the Common Core State Standards, Standards for Mathematical Practice. A purposive …


Classroom Error Climate: Teacher Professional Development To Improve Student Motivation, Sean O'Dell Jan 2015

Classroom Error Climate: Teacher Professional Development To Improve Student Motivation, Sean O'Dell

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Student motivation and achievement are often low for students from low socioeconomic status households and may decline when children from all walks of life enter middle school. Despite years of studies describing these declines and efforts to improve learning outcomes, the trends continue. Motivation has been studied from several theoretical standpoints, among them, self-efficacy, beliefs, goal orientations, and emotions. This dissertation introduces error orientation: how teachers and students react to and use errors in the classroom. A positive error orientation, one that views errors as opportunities to learn rather than punishments, may help improve students* emotions, self-efficacy, and future goal …