Preservice Teachers’ Eliciting and Responding to Student Thinking in Lesson Plays

Ji-Eun Lee and Woong Lim
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Ji-Eun Lee: School of Education and Human Services, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, USA
Woong Lim: Graduate School of Education, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Korea

Mathematics, 2021, vol. 9, issue 22, 1-24

Abstract: This study presents an analysis of 95 lesson play scripts—hypothetical dialogues between the teacher and a student—written by 32 preservice teachers (PSTs). Writing lesson scripts was part of the assessment design activities to elicit and respond to students’ thinking. The findings present the types and frequencies of teacher talks/moves in fraction-related tasks during a stage of lesson plays, such as launch, active elicitation, and closure. Our analysis indicates a wide range in the number of turns taken by the PSTs, while there is little correlation between the number of turns and effectiveness at eliciting and responding to student thinking. The study also confirmed that some unproductive talk moves were still present in the lesson play context, although the PSTs had plenty of time to craft a script. This study drew implications of PSTs’ prior perceptions, experiences, knowledge, and needs in mathematics teacher education regarding the ways to create learning opportunities for them to elicit and respond to student thinking.

Keywords: eliciting; lesson play; preservice teacher education; questioning; student thinking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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