The Design and Development of a Multimedia Case-Based Environment on Parental Engagement

Christos Roushias; Angela Calabrese Barton; Corey Drake

Educational Media International Vol. 46, No. 1 (March 2009) pp. 37–52

The purpose of this paper is to present the rationale and principles that guided the design and development of PARENTS, a multimedia case-based environment. Following a development research approach, the tenets of constructivist learning, and the...

“Muddying the clear waters”: Teachers' take-up of the linguistic idea of revoicing

Beth Herbel-Eisenmann; Corey Drake; Michelle Cirillo

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 25, No. 2 (February 2009) pp. 268–277

This article examines a collaborative study group's discussions about “revoicing,” an idea from linguistics that has been identified as an important discourse strategy in the teaching of mathematics as well as other content areas. This group, made...

Language: English

Curriculum ergonomics: Conceptualizing the interactions between curriculum design and use

Jeffrey Choppin; Amy Roth McDuffie; Corey Drake; Jon Davis

International Journal of Educational Research Vol. 92, No. 1 (2018) pp. 75–85

We conceptualize curriculum ergonomics as a field that studies the interactions between users and curriculum materials. We identify five themes that a curriculum ergonomics lens brings into sharper focus: (1) teachers’ relationships with and...

Language: English

Examining pre-service elementary mathematics teachers' reading of educative curriculum materials

Tonia J. Land; Andrew M. Tyminski; Corey Drake

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 51, No. 1 (October 2015) pp. 16–26

Educative curriculum materials are intended to support teacher learning. An assumption underlying the design of educative curriculum, however, has been that teachers will read features that are designed to be educative in educative ways. This study...

Language: English

Middle school mathematics teachers’ orientations and noticing of features of mathematics curriculum materials

Amy Roth McDuffie; Jeffrey Choppin; Corey Drake; Jon Davis

International Journal of Educational Research Vol. 92, No. 1 (2018) pp. 173–187

We report findings on teachers’ noticing of features in the teacher resources of mathematics curriculum programs. Based on prior analysis, we selected teachers using one of two curriculum types: delivery mechanism or thinking device. The...

Language: English

Teachers’ perceptions of the official curriculum: Problem solving and rigor

Jon D. Davis; Amy Roth McDuffie; Corey Drake; Amanda L. Seiwell

International Journal of Educational Research Vol. 93, No. 1 (2019) pp. 91–100

This contribution to curriculum ergonomics focuses on teachers’ perceptions of problem solving and rigor in the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, the curricular aims and objectives component of the official curriculum in the U.S. Our...

Language: English

Orientations of prospective teachers toward students' family and community

Mary Q. Foote; Amy Roth McDuffie; Erin E. Turner; Julia M. Aguirre; Tonya Gau Bartell; Corey Drake

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 35, No. 1 (October 2013) pp. 126–136

Teacher educators need an awareness of orientations that prospective teachers (PSTs) hold about children's families and communities, so that they can support PSTs in developing positive perspectives and addressing deficit perspectives. Orientations...

Language: English

Using Video Analysis to Support Prospective K-8 Teachers' Noticing of Students' Multiple Mathematical Knowledge Bases

Amy Roth McDuffie; Mary Q. Foote; Catherine Bolson; Erin E. Turner; Julia M. Aguirre; Tonya Gau Bartell; Corey Drake; Tonia Land

Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education Vol. 17, No. 3 (June 2014) pp. 245–270

As part of a larger research project aimed at transforming preK-8 mathematics teacher preparation, the purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which prospective teachers notice children's competencies related to children's...