Integrating Critical Pedagogy With Teaching Statistics for Social Justice
IGI Global eBooks, 2021
The following chapter describes the creation and implementation of a “Content Underpinnings” cour... more The following chapter describes the creation and implementation of a “Content Underpinnings” course for graduate students in middle grades statistics that required students to complete a teaching for social justice lesson in a K-12 classroom. The content underpinnings course consisted of three major goals that promoted critical thought: critical race theory (CRT) and teaching for social justice (TSJ), statistical pedagogical content knowledge, and statistical content knowledge. A review of research related to each these goals is integrated with student implementation of a CRT/TSJ lesson, along with details on how this research guided the course creation and implementation. Implications and suggestions for including CRT and TSJ in mathematics are suggested as a tool to promote equity, access, and empowerment for democracy in teacher education.
The purpose of this study was to study the impact of conformity to Statistical Reasoning Learning... more The purpose of this study was to study the impact of conformity to Statistical Reasoning Learning Environment (SRLE) principles on students' statistical reasoning in Advanced Placement statistics courses. The study encompassed ten different schools in the Southeast United States over a school year. A quasi-experimental design was used to compare teachers with higher and lower levels of conformity to SRLE principles through a matching process used to mitigate the effects of non-random assignment. This matching process resulted in five pairs of similar teachers and schools who differed in self-reported beliefs in the effectiveness of SRLE principles and application of those principles in their instruction.
Handbook of Research on Field-Based Teacher Education
A consortium of 24 universities and their school partners engaged in a networked improvement comm... more A consortium of 24 universities and their school partners engaged in a networked improvement community design to develop clinical experience models designed to build candidates' facility with the effective mathematics teaching practices and other equitable teaching strategies to promote secondary school students' success in achieving college- and career-ready standards. The authors discuss mechanisms to aid in the implementation of two alternative models: 1) the paired placement model, in which two prospective teachers are paired with a single mentor teacher, allowing the mentor teacher to provide purposeful coaching and mentoring and the two pre-service teachers to offer each other feedback, mentoring, and support; and 2) co-planning and co-teaching, which has been found to help teacher candidates gain greater pedagogical content knowledge and knowledge of students through collaboration and communication between teacher candidates and mentor teachers who plan, implement, an...
The following autoethnography was completed by two graduate students at University A learning to ... more The following autoethnography was completed by two graduate students at University A learning to enact teaching for social justice while building content underpinnings in statistics at University B. The authors present a research base for teaching for social justice followed by a description of their lesson, observations during enactment, and reflection of change in beliefs about teaching for social justice afterward. Findings in this study are shared from the authors’ personal perspectives through the enactment of teaching a lesson for social justice in an undergraduate statistics course at University B. Implications provide encouragement that the inclusion of social justice topics in undergraduate and graduate level teacher educator coursework may improve teacher attention to equity in practice.
The purpose of this study was to study the impact of conformity to Statistical Reasoning Learning... more The purpose of this study was to study the impact of conformity to Statistical Reasoning Learning Environment (SRLE) principles on students' statistical reasoning in Advanced Placement statistics courses. The study encompassed ten different schools in the Southeast United States over a school year. A quasi-experimental design was used to compare teachers with higher and lower levels of conformity to SRLE principles through a matching process used to mitigate the effects of non-random assignment. This matching process resulted in five pairs of similar teachers and schools who differed in self-reported beliefs in the effectiveness of SRLE principles and application of those principles in their instruction.
The International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
The following action research depicts how two researchers from two universities merged their cour... more The following action research depicts how two researchers from two universities merged their courses and goals of instruction to impact change in future teachers. Two currently practicing middle school teachers from one university worked with researchers to develop a social justice lesson that had relevance to seventeen K-8 pre-service teachers at another university to promote changes in beliefs about equitable teaching practices and policy. Findings from preand post-surveys, field notes during enactment, and reflections teachers found teaching statistics for social justice (TS4SJ) in this setting provided an increased responsiveness to the needs of students and statistical connections while also attending to excuses by those facing dilemmas in belief and racial dominance. INTRODUCTION For decades, content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, and pedagogical content knowledge have been a focus in teacher education programs (Shulman, 1987). However, while deepening teachers’ mathematica...
Integrating Critical Pedagogy With Teaching Statistics for Social Justice
Research Anthology on Instilling Social Justice in the Classroom, 2021
The following chapter describes the creation and implementation of a “Content Underpinnings” cour... more The following chapter describes the creation and implementation of a “Content Underpinnings” course for graduate students in middle grades statistics that required students to complete a teaching for social justice lesson in a K-12 classroom. The content underpinnings course consisted of three major goals that promoted critical thought: critical race theory (CRT) and teaching for social justice (TSJ), statistical pedagogical content knowledge, and statistical content knowledge. A review of research related to each these goals is integrated with student implementation of a CRT/TSJ lesson, along with details on how this research guided the course creation and implementation. Implications and suggestions for including CRT and TSJ in mathematics are suggested as a tool to promote equity, access, and empowerment for democracy in teacher education.
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Georgia Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, 2019
This paper reports the benefits and challenges of incorporating a paired-placement model at four ... more This paper reports the benefits and challenges of incorporating a paired-placement model at four different post-secondary teacher preparation programs in secondary mathematics education. The paired-placement model places two secondary mathematics clinical teachers with one mentor (or cooperating) teacher during their internship experience. Benefits exhibited were increased collaboration, more knowledgeable cooperating teachers, increased sense of community, teaming, pedagogical risk-taking, increased reflective practice, established natural professional learning communities, Plan-Do-Study-Act Cycle (PDSA), and increased accountability. Challenges found through the PDSA cycle include personnel issues, number of days teaching, perceived classroom management preparation, preparing university supervisors, mentors, and teacher candidates, and support for collaboration afterward.
The purpose of this study was to study the impact of conformity to Statistical Reasoning Learning... more The purpose of this study was to study the impact of conformity to Statistical Reasoning Learning Environment (SRLE) principles on students' statistical reasoning in Advanced Placement statistics courses. A quasi-experimental design was used to compare teachers' levels of conformity to SRLE principles through a matching process used to mitigate the effects of nonrandom assignment. This matching process resulted in five pairs of similar teachers and schools who differed in self-reported beliefs in the effectiveness and application of SRLE principles. Increases in students' statistical reasoning were found at varying levels in both high and low conformity classrooms. Improvements among teachers with low conformity to SRLE principles were less varied and consistent with national averages for improvement by college students. Improvements in classes with high conformity to SRLE principles were more varied. Students of two teachers with high levels of conformity to SRLE principles showed large levels of improvement in statistical reasoning in comparison to national results. While the comparison between classrooms conformity to SRLE principles revealed no statistically significant differences in students' statistical reasoning ability, deeper analysis suggests that beliefs and practices aligned with SRLE principles have potential to increase students' statistical reasoning at rates above national averages.
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