Studying Professional Knowledge Use in Practice Using Multimedia Scenarios Delivered Online

Patricio Herbst; Daniel Chazan

International Journal of Research & Method in Education Vol. 38, No. 3 (2015) pp. 272–287

We describe how multimedia scenarios delivered online can be used in instruments for the study of professional knowledge. Based on our work in the study of the knowledge and rationality involved in mathematics teaching, we describe how the study of...

Will Teachers Create Opportunities for Discussion When Teaching Proof in a Geometry Classroom?

Ander Erickson; Patricio Herbst

International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education Vol. 16, No. 1 (2018) pp. 167–181

This study presents an analysis of whether geometry teachers create opportunities for student discussion when engaging students in proving as revealed through the use of a multimedia survey instrument. We presented 42 secondary mathematics teachers...

Using Representations of Practice to Elicit Mathematics Teachers' Tacit Knowledge of Practice: A Comparison of Responses to Animations and Videos

Patricio Herbst; Karl W. Kosko

Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education Vol. 17, No. 6 (December 2014) pp. 515–537

This study compared conversations among groups of teachers of high school geometry that had been elicited by a representation of instruction (either a video or an animation) and facilitated with an open-ended agenda. All artifacts used represented...

A deeper look at how teachers say what they say: A quantitative modality analysis of teacher-to-teacher talk

Karl W. Kosko; Patricio Herbst

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 28, No. 4 (May 2012) pp. 589–598

Analysis of teacher-to-teacher talk provides researchers with useful information regarding the teaching profession and teachers’ perspectives. This article provides a description of a method, with accompanying example, examining teacher-to-teacher...

Language: English

Students' Conceptions of Congruency through the Use of Dynamic Geometry Software

Gloriana Gonzalez; Patricio G. Herbst

International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning Vol. 14, No. 2 (July 2009) pp. 153–182

This paper describes students' interactions with dynamic diagrams in the context of an American geometry class. Students used the dragging tool and the measuring tool in Cabri Geometry to make mathematical conjectures. The analysis, using the cK...

Investigating the Quality of Discussion Threads in Animation-Supported Online Conversations

Chieu Vu Minh; Patricio Herbst

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2014 (Oct 20, 2014) pp. 1973–1981

We investigate online discussions among teachers. It is important to support novice teachers in examining and reflecting on different aspects of teaching practice. It is also important to enable them to consider and propose alternative teaching...

Topics: Instructional Design, Tools & Systems, Designing, Developing, and Assessing E-Learning

Learning to Teach: Web-based Interactive Rich-Media Technologies Supporting Cognitive Flexibility in Teacher Education

Chieu Vu Minh; Patricio Herbst

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 4579–4586

Cognitive flexibility is the ability of human subjects to structure or restructure their own knowledge, in many different ways, in order to respond to a variety of situational demands. Cognitive flexibility is one of the important meta-cognitive...

LessonSketch: A Rich-Media Scenario-Based Learning Environment for Teacher Development

Chieu Vu Minh; Patricio Herbst

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 968–973

The improvement of students’ opportunities to learn in school classrooms is often challenged by the complexity of the work of teaching, the lack of repositories of usable knowledge of teaching, and the relative isolation of teachers. Technologies...

A study of the quality of interaction among participants in online animation-based conversations about mathematics teaching

Vu Minh Chieu; Patricio Herbst

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 57, No. 1 (July 2016) pp. 139–149

We investigate the quality of user interaction in forums that used animated classroom stories to support mathematics teachers' conversations. An analysis of pairs of posts connected by a parent–child relationship helped understand correlations...

Language: English

Secondary mathematics teachers' attitudes toward alternative communication practices when doing proofs in geometry

Justin K. Dimmel; Patricio G. Herbst

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 68, No. 1 (November 2017) pp. 151–160

We investigated secondary mathematics teachers' attitudes toward alternative ways of managing instruction on geometric proofs. Participants assigned to different experimental conditions viewed storyboard episodes of instruction. Some episodes showed ...

Language: English

Effect of an Animated Classroom Story Embedded in Online Discussion on Helping Mathematics Teachers Learn to Notice

Vu Minh Chieu; Patricio Herbst; Michael Weiss

Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 20, No. 4 (2011) pp. 589–624

Rich-media representations of teaching using animated cartoons can be effective at stimulating teachers' discussion about practice and hence help them learn productively from one another about their profession. Our research aims to design web-based...

Using Web 2.0 Interactive Rich-media Technologies in Mathematics Teacher Development

Chieu Vu Minh; Michael Weiss; Patricio Herbst

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 3619–3624

This roundtable session aims at showing how to exploit interactive rich-media technologies, especially technologies for watching and annotating animated instructional stories, to support teacher learning. We consider that watching and annotating...

An Instrumental Co-Genesis Approach to Developing an Online Practice-based Environment for Teacher Education

Chieu Vu-Minh; Nicolas Boileau; Patricio Herbst

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 2763–2772

LessonSketch is an online, multimedia-based learning environment that supports practice-based teacher education. A work in progress since the development of its initial components in 2008 and its launch in 2011, LessonSketch has served more than 3...

Topics: Multimedia, mathematics education, Distance/Flexible Education, New Possibilities with Information Technology Education

Approximating the Practice of Mathematics Teaching: What Learning Can Web-based, Multimedia Storyboarding Software Enable?

Patricio Herbst; Vu-Minh Chieu; Annick Rougée

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 14, No. 4 (December 2014) pp. 356–383

This paper builds on Grossman's notion of approximations of practice as scaled-down opportunities for preservice teachers to learn to teach by doing. The authors propose the use of media rich, collaborative web-authoring tools for preservice...

ThEMaT’s Virtual Settings: Practicing Math Teaching with Web-based Interactive Rich-Media Technologies

Chieu Vu Minh; Michael Weiss; Patricio Herbst

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 4587–4592

How to help teachers learn productively from each other and practice teaching in authentic contexts has been among critical problems in teacher learning. Many have offered online communities and video technologies for teachers to develop their...

Technological supports for practice-based teacher education

Daniel Chazan; Patricio Herbst; Elizabeth Fleming; Dana Grosser-Clarkson

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 26, No. 1 (January 2018) pp. 5–11

This piece introduces the seven articles that make up the this special issue on Technological Supports for Practice-Based Teacher Education. It offers questions and reflections on the current relationship between technology and practice-based...

An Analysis of Evaluative Comments in Teachers' Online Discussions of Representations of Practice

Vu Minh Chieu; Karl W. Kosko; Patricio G. Herbst

Journal of Teacher Education Vol. 66, No. 1 (2015) pp. 35–50

It has been common to use video records of instruction in teacher professional development, but participants have rarely been encouraged to evaluate teachers and students' actions in those records, allegedly because evaluation deters from the...

The role of simulations for supporting professional growth: Teachers' engagement in virtual professional experimentation

Amanda Milewski; Patricio Herbst; Emanuele Bardelli; Carolyn Hetrick

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 26, No. 1 (January 2018) pp. 103–126

There is growing interest in the field of education for leveraging emerging digital technologies to support teachers' learning in online or blended settings. This paper builds on Clarke and Hollingsworth's (2002) Interconnected Model of Professional ...