Responding to Current Field Experience Challenges with the Virtualization of Number Talks

Authors

Candace Joswick
Audrey Meador
Nicole Fletcher, Fairfield UniversityFollow
Kimberly Conner
Brandon McMillan

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Winter 2020

Abstract

As mathematics teacher educators, we describe here the virtualization of a traditionally face-to-face, commonly used classroom practice as a response to the current COVID-19 health crisis and the accompanying shift to online field experiences. We report aspects of our “virtualization” of Number Talks, describing “Virtual Number Talks” and a Teacher Learning Cycle specific to taking up this practice in the context of mathematics teacher education courses. We deliberately chose Number Talks because of the potential to focus on student discourse and mathematical thinking (e.g., Parrish, 2011) and widespread use in PreK-12 schools (Matney, Lustgarten, & Nicholson, 2020).

Comments

Copyright 2020 Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators

A link to freely available content has been provided.

Publication Title

AMTE Connections

Repository Citation

Joswick, Candace; Meador, Audrey; Fletcher, Nicole; Conner, Kimberly; and McMillan, Brandon, "Responding to Current Field Experience Challenges with the Virtualization of Number Talks" (2020). School of Education and Human Development Faculty Publications. 201.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/education-facultypubs/201

Published Citation

Joswick, C., Meador, A., Fletcher, N., Connor, K., & McMillan, B. (2020). Responding to current field experience challenges with the virtualization of Number Talks. AMTE Connections, 30(2).

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