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Keying English Learner Students into Mathematical Content: The Things I Notice Approach
Teaching the Content Areas to English Language Learners in Secondary Schools (2019)
  • Jill A. Perry, Rowan University
  • Beth Wassell, Rowan University
Abstract
Things I Notice is a 3-phase approach to teaching mathematics. In this approach, teachers engage students in deliberately examining and interrogating features of mathematical representations or problem structures by providing independent noticing/thinking time, partner discussion time, and whole-class discussion time. The chapter includes a vignette of a high school teacher who uses the Things I Notice approach with a group of English Language Learners with varied proficiency levels in English. The authors also provide examples of ways in which Things I Notice can be enacted in a classroom to help English Language Learners engage as members of a community of mathematical discourse while supporting their oral academic language development. Finally, the authors provide practical guidelines for selecting and designing Things I Notice tasks, facilitating the approach, and using students’ responses, both verbal and written, to inform instruction.
Publication Date
January 1, 2019
Editor
de Oliveira L., Obenchain K., Kenney R., Oliveira A.
Publisher
Springer
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-02245-7_7
Citation Information
Jill A. Perry and Beth Wassell. "Keying English Learner Students into Mathematical Content: The Things I Notice Approach" CHAMTeaching the Content Areas to English Language Learners in Secondary Schools (2019) p. 105 - 118
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/beth-wassell/18/