Teacher noticing has become a prominent construct in research on teacher education and
professional development; however, the current state of research is quite diverse, with …

This article has two purposes: firstly to introduce this special issue on scaffolding and
dialogic teaching in mathematics education and secondly to review the recent literature on …

This study investigates pre-service teachers' capacities to attend to, analyze, and respond to
student thinking. Using a performance assessment of teacher competence, we compare two …

This introductory article aims to provide a synthesis of the state-of-the art studies on lesson
study with in-service mathematics teachers and an outlook on the entire issue. First, we …

By the time children get to school, they have already displayed enormous powers for making
sense of the worlds they inhabit: the material world of things, the mental world of images, the …

Microteaching Lesson Study [MLS] combines elements of Japanese lesson study and
microteaching. A case study of MLS was conducted with 18 prospective teachers in an initial …

Human noticing is active rather than passive. We “direct” our attention (ie, to some objects
rather than others) and we “pay” it (ie, there are costs in attending to certain objects rather …

Learning algebra is critical for students in the USA today, yet many students in the USA
struggle in algebra classes. Researchers claim that one reason for these difficulties is that …

Starting with the roots of the idea of noticing as a potentially intentional rather than
haphazard act, I first outline aspects of what I call the discipline of noticing (Mason 1984 …

Although students of all levels of education face serious difficulties with proof, there is limited
research knowledge about how instruction can help students overcome these difficulties. In …