Professional Development Materials
Professional learning from observing students
These videos and professional development materials are intended for use with prospective or practicing classroom teachers. The Launch questions are intended to be answered prior to viewing the video of the student. The Reflect questions connect to the student responses and should follow the viewing of the video.
Students name shapes
Video: Liam (grade 4), Emma (grade 6), and Olivia (grade 5) name various geometric shapes.
Joseph talks about triangles
Joseph (kindergarten, age 5) draws triangles and selects triangles from a collection of shapes.
Liam selects quadrilaterals
Liam (grade 4) selects squares and rectangles from a collection of shapes
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References
Interview tasks were informed by Burger & Shaughnessy (1986); and Levenson, Tirosh, & Tsamir (2011).