Lenses on the Improvement of Teaching
Leading team:
- Dr. Ronnie Karsenty
- Tzila Yarhi
- Prof. Abraham Arcavi
Project team:
- Yonah Amir
- Dr. Jason Cooper
- Dr. Avital Elbaum Cohen
- Myriam Goor
- Ahuva Guttman
- Dana Hadadi
- Ronit Lesner
- Yael Nurick
- Gil Schwarts
Secretariat and Administration:
Shani MotsaBrief
Lenses on the Improvement of Teaching is a unique professional development (PD) program, designed especially for teachers of the ‘Hotam’ project (Teach First Israel). In this program, the participating teachers’ lessons are videotaped and the filmed material serves as a basis for guided peer discussions, using the framework developed in the VIDEO-LM Project. The pedagogical content of the PD is based on learning materials in the 3 Units matriculation level, designed in the previous projects ‘SHAY’ (conducted in the Department of Science Teaching) and SHLAV (conducted in the Davidson institute of Science Education).
Further reading:
- Karsenty, R., & Arcavi, A. (In press). Math, lenses and videotapes: A framework and a language for developing reflective practices of teaching. To Appear in Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education.
- Karsenty, R. (Accepted). Professional development of mathematics teachers: Through the lens of the camera. To appear in the proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-13) (17 pages, Invited refereed publication).
- Karsenty, R. (Accepted). Videotaped lessons as means to enhance reflection and knowledge of secondary mathematics teachers. To appear in the proceedings of the 17th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI-2017).
- Karsenty, R. (Accepted). How do mathematics teachers learn from videotaped lessons of unknown peers? Exploring possible mechanisms that contribute to change in teachers' perspectives. To appear in the proceedings of the 9th Annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDUlearn 2017).
- Karsenty R. & Schwarts, G. (2016). Enhancing reflective skills of secondary mathematics teachers through video-based peer discussions: The case of cross-cultural learning. Paper presented in TSG-50 (Topic Study Group on in-service education and professional development of secondary mathematics teachers), the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-13), Hamburg, Germany (8 pages, Invited refereed publication).
- Karsenty R., Arcavi, A., & Nurick, Y. (2015). Video-based peer discussions as sources for knowledge growth of secondary teachers. In K. Krainer & N. Vondrová (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (pp.2825-2832), Prague, Czech Republic.